The World Bank In Gender

The World Bank takes as its starting point that no country, community, or economy can achieve its potential or meet the challenges of the 21st century without the full and equal participation of women and men, girls and boys.

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Transforming Challenge into Action: Expanding Health Coverage for All

World Bank Group president Ajay Banga announced an ambitious plan to support countries in delivering quality, affordable health services to 1.5 billion people by 2030.
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WE Finance Code: Data-Driven Transformation to Close the Gender Finance Gap

68th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) side event at the United Nations featuring the WE Finance Code.
World Bank Gender Strategy 2024-2030

A new strategy aims to accelerate gender equality for a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive future

Gender At-A-Glance

The World Bank Group (WBG) works with public- and private-sector clients to accelerate gender equality to end poverty on a livable planet. Growing evidence shows how removing gender barriers unlocks economic productivity, reduces poverty, deepens social cohesion and enhances well-being and prosperity for current and future generations. The WBG supports innovation, financing and collective action to end gender-based violence, elevate human capital, expand and enable economic opportunities and engage women as leaders.

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Gender Data Snapshot

Share of youth not in education, employment, or training (NEET), by sex

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Gender Projects

Sierra Leone Second Inclusive and Sustainable Growth DPF

The Sierra Leone Second Inclusive and Sustainable Growth DPF supports several policy reform measures intended to facilitate increased tenure security for women, improve financial account ownership and access to credit, and girls’ secondary school enrolment rate.

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Gender Data

Country Gender Landscapes

The Country Gender Landscape briefs provide a snapshot of the state of gender equality by country. Drawing on data from the Gender Data Portal these briefs are available for 192 countries and updated regularly.

One in three women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence by a non-partner over the course of their life. Young women are the most at-risk group. This pattern holds irrespective of country income classification.

Women’s economic prospects remain constrained. Across all regions of the world, women’s labor force participation remains below that of men.

Over the last 25 years, women’s participation in national parliaments has increased but is far from reaching equality.

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Hana Brixi

Global Director, Gender

Nathalie Akon Gabala

Director of Gender and Economic Inclusion, IFC

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Brief

Gender Dimensions of Forced Displacement

How does forced displacement affect women and men differently? And how should policy and program design and implementation reflect these differences?
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Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality

The UFGE is a World Bank multi-donor trust fund financing research, impact evaluations and data to help policy makers and practitioners close gender gaps in countries and sectors.
WePOWER Network

WePOWER is a professional network in South Asia that supports women's participation in energy projects and institutions and promotes change regarding women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) ...
Investing in Human Capital for a Greener Future

Global thought leaders came together to champion investments in people to build resilience, help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, and accelerate the green transition

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The World Bank In Gender

Featured

Transforming Challenge into Action: Expanding Health Coverage for All

WE Finance Code: Data-Driven Transformation to Close the Gender Finance Gap

World Bank Gender Strategy 2024-2030

Gender At-A-Glance

Gender Data Snapshot

Gender Projects

Sierra Leone Second Inclusive and Sustainable Growth DPF

Research

Women, Business and the Law 2024

Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response in World Bank Operations: Taking Stock After a Decade of Engagement (2012-2022)

Measuring Women and Men’s Work : Main Findings from a Joint ILO and World Bank Study in Sri Lanka

Gender Equality in Development: A Ten-Year Retrospective

Gender Data

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Experts

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