This diagnostic report was prepared in response to a technical assistance request from the Government of the Republic of Namibia (GRN) to support the design and implementation of an index-based agriculture...
This disaster risk finance (DRF) diagnostic was prepared as part of a broader engagement between the World Bank and the Government of South Africa (GoSA) on strengthening national and municipal resilience...
The objective of this disaster risk finance (DRF) diagnostic is to assess the status of financial preparedness of Eswatini to disasters and crises. This assessment entails analysis of the following: (i)...
The livestock sector generates a large portion of national economies in African drylands and is the principal source of livelihood for pastoralists living there. Pastoralism is the main livelihood for...
This paper aims to improve understanding of how disaster risk financing (DRF) enables social protection (SP) systems to respond to and mitigate the impacts of climatic and potentially other shocks. As...
Uganda is experiencing a displacement shock. It has the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world, including the third largest number of refugees. The greatest concentration of refugees is in Uganda’s...
This toolkit was conceived for the use of two groups of World Bank Group (WBG) staff and consultants. The primary target users consist of social protection and labor (SPL) specialists who help WBG client...
This policy note is provided as an output under the World Bank’s Regional Advisory Service for Southern Africa, ‘Developing a Regional Risk Financing Framework for Agriculture and Food Security’. A key...
Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural disasters, economic crises, pandemics, conflict...
This diagnostic study is prepared at the request of the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Government of Lesotho (GoL)and aims to identify options to strengthen the country's financial resilience to disasters...
In March 2018, Uganda's Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) formally requested technical assistance from the World Bank Group (WBG) to conduct a technical and diagnostic review...
As a key pillar of the Ugandan economy, the agriculture sector is a critical driver of economic growth and poverty alleviation. Uganda's agricultural sector is dominated by smallholders with low levels...
This report examines agricultural spending in Zimbabwe. This public expenditure review (PER) is the sixth in a series focusing on local government service delivery, state-owned enterprises and parastatals...
When shocks strike they have an immediate and direct impact on life, income, and assets.Two strands of literature can be usefully brought together to generate some initial indicative estimates of the timing...
A growing number of low- and middle-income countries are investing in social safety nets to improve the lives and livelihoods of their poor and vulnerable residents. According to the World Bank (2015)...
A growing number of low- and middle-income countries are investing in social safety nets to improve the lives and livelihoods of their poor and vulnerable residents. According to the World Bank (2015)...
Uganda is particularly vulnerable to disasters, and droughts in particular impact the economy. The NUSAF III program aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable households against natural disasters...
Since January 2014, the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) finance and markets global practice has provided technical assistance to establish a crop and livestock insurance program in Kenya. Led by the WBG’s disaster...
In Uganda, third northern Uganda social action fund (NUSAF III) makes use of social safety nets to invest in the livelihoods of poor households, and it specifically includes a disaster risk finance (DRF)...
Climate change, weather-related disasters, and slow-onset changes such as rising sea levels threaten sustainable development and force some 26 million people into poverty every year. Sovereign disaster...