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EcoPush - Investing in a Low-Carbon Economy

Sharing lessons on national low carbon action

Event - Public event - 23 October 2013 09:30 - 11:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

The focus of the discussions at the Sharing Lessons on National Low Carbon Action event, will be on national action on climate compatible development. We will discuss insights from across CDKN and the LEDS Global Partnership, and consider particular country perspectives from Bangladesh, the Gambia, Peru, the UK and the USA.

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Members of the coalition of rebel forces in Darfur, Sudan

Humanitarian negotiations: engagement with armed groups in Sudan and South Sudan

Event - Public event - 10 October 2013 14:00 - 15:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

This event will examine the role of humanitarian negotiations with state and non-state armed groups in Darfur, Southern Kordofan and Jonglei State. Interviews with armed groups, the results of field research and practical experience in humanitarian engagement, with armed groups will be shared with the audience as speakers discuss whether these negotiations contributed to a stronger and more effective humanitarian response in the region.

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Bilateral cooperation and local power dynamics: the case of Rwanda

Publication - Research reports and studies - 4 October 2013

Frederick Golooba-Mutebi and David Booth

Commissioned by the Swedish Embassy in Kigali as an input to its cooperation strategy for the next five to seven years, this paper is a focused contribution to understanding power dynamics in Rwanda. It is based on an extended study of relationships and change processes within the government and political leadership in Kigali.

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Turkish aid in Somalia: the irresistible appeal of boots on the ground

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 30 September 2013

There is an old Somali proverb "I tus oo i taabsii", which is loosely translated as "show me, let me feel it". This is the metric by which Somalis will judge commitments made at a recent conference in Brussels, where international donors pledged €1.8bn for Somalia.

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Using information and communication technologies to improve service delivery

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 30 September 2013

Tanzania based Twaweza's new initiative, Voices of Citizens, uses mobile phones to regularly collect information from a broad cross-section of Tanzanian citizens in order to aid policy makers, and inform the public about what's going on. In this podcast, Leni Wild interviews Mushi Elvis Leonard - a researcher based at Twaweza - and explores how the survey works as well as how the findings are communicated and used to create change.

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Low-carbon competitiveness in Kenya

Publication - Research reports and studies - 29 September 2013

Karen Ellis, Alberto Lemma, Stephen Mutimba, Rachel Wanyoike

A report on low-carbon competitiveness in Kenya

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Guinea elections: a watershed for the private sector?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 27 September 2013

The Guinean population should have been voting to elect a new legislative assembly on Tuesday this week. Instead, in an all-too-familiar pattern, the elections were postponed once again – for the fifth time in three years.

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Barclays gets scared and Somalis become collateral damage

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 21 September 2013

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Lindsay Mgbor - Department of International Development

Rethinking social accountability in Africa: lessons from the Mwananchi Programme

Event - Public event - 12 September 2013 11:30 - 14:30 (GMT-05)

Despite evident economic progress in Africa, inequality is slowing the rate at which growth delivers better services to poor people. The Mwananchi Programme spent five years implementing ‘social accountability’ projects in six African countries to enable ordinary citizens to hold their governments to account. This event will discuss the lessons learned and what they mean for designing and carrying out projects which change the rules of the game in favour of poor people. RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

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Traders work on the floor of the Ghana Stock Exchange in Accra, Ghana, June 15, 2006. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst)

What does it take to build a stable and efficient financial sector for sustained growth and structural transformation in Africa?

Event - Public event - 11 September 2013 09:30 - 11:00 (GMT+00)

The Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana joins a range of international financial sector experts to debate sustained growth and structural transformation in Africa

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