The approach paper provides the rationale for further integration of conflict-induced internally displaced persons (IDPs) into World Bank Group (WBG) programming based on its commitment to vulnerable ...

Refugee Policy Review as at 30 June 2020 for World Bank’s Mid Term Review of IDA19 Window for Host Communities and Refugees

The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021 sheds light on one of the most intractable challenges faced by development policy makers and practitioners: transforming the economic lives of the world’s p...

This paper by the WB examines multidimensional poverty among forcibly displaced populations, using a gendered lens. A tailored measure of multidimensional poverty is developed and applied for refugees...

While there have been welcome advances in global evidence on and understanding of forced displacement, research and analysis of the gendered dimensions of displacement have been limited. The Gender Di...

The report canvasses all available information to document how Somalia’s livestock and crops subsectors have been buffeted by deteriorating water and transport infrastructure, persistent insecurity, w...

Between February and July 2019, the World Bank commissioned the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to undertake an ‘Assessment of Forest Resource Degradation and Interventio...

Sub-Saharan Africa hosts a large proportion of the world’s refugees, raising concerns about the consequences of hosting refugees. This paper focuses on Uganda, which is the largest refugee hosting cou...

Policy brief jointly co-authored by Dr. Jana Kuhnt (German Development Institute) and Kirsten Schüttler (World Bank) on the economic integration into host communities in times of crisis. Access to...

his book presents a heavily disruptive, inclusive, and resilient solution to Africa’s wide-ranging food security challenges. Specifically, it assesses the benefits and costs of using the frontier agri...