Climate Innovation Centers (CICs) are an important initiative of the World Bank Group’s Climate Technology Program. The first CIC opened in Kenya in 2012 with the aim of providing “incubation, capacity building services and financing to Kenyan entrepreneurs and new ventures that are developing innovative solutions in energy, water and...
The Watershed Management and Poverty Alleviation project in Karnataka, India (known as the Sujala Project), was characterised by an intensely inclusive and flexible monitoring and evaluation (M&E) process, which led to the project’s overall greater effectiveness, efficiency, and robustness. In a review of the program, the World Bank found that...
In Denmark decades of monitoring of water quality has played a key role in driving policy improvement and the technologies needed to ensure clean water, translating into opportunities for green growth.
A growing number of countries at all levels of development have legislation or regulations prescribing the application of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) - and many more are introducing it as part of their policy tools. This is creating unique opportunities for better policy making and planning by incorporating environmental considerations...
Water security and water quality affect numerous economic sectors and areas: agriculture, energy, disaster management, and others. Countries need balanced and integrated approaches that are economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. Threats related to climate change have added to the complexity, and to the importance, of water resource management. Korea’s integrated...
The present report on inclusive green growth in Ghana provides an account of the overall policy framework and mechanisms to promote inclusive green growth (IGG) in the country. It documents good practices, success stories and lessons learned in selected sectors of the country’s economy. The report contributed to informing the...
The main objective of the present report is to document good practices and lessons learned on inclusive green growth from selected case studies in South Africa. The report contributed to informing the Fifth Issue of the Sustainable Development Report on Africa (SDRA-V) produced under the theme “Achieving sustainable development in...
For the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Caribbean, renewable energy technologies (RETs) will become increasingly important in the face of high fossil fuel costs. Many countries now recognise the need to move towards low-carbon, climate-resilient economies, as set out in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) implementation plan for climate...