World Bank

The World Bank Group (WBG) is an international financial institution that provides low-cost loans and grants to developing countries around the world as well as research, analysis, and technical advice. The World Bank Group’s twin goals are to eradicate extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. This grant will support the World Bank’s gender group global unit to undertake a more robust, inclusive, and transparent civil society consultation process for the World Bank Group Gender Strategy update. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)

The World Bank Group is an international financial organization that provides low-cost loans and grants to developing countries around the world, as well as policy advice, research and analysis, and technical advice. The World Bank Group’s twin goals are to eradicate extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. This grant will expand the evidence base on gender gaps and promote gender-informed policy design and implementation in Africa via bringing a gender lens to fiscal policy and using gender disaggregated data to inform the design of government policies to improve women’s economic opportunities. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)

This grant will support the World Bank Group’s Partnership Fund for the Sustainable Development Goals’ fourth call for proposals that aim to accelerate low-carbon development by focusing on the highest-emitting systems in China, Africa, and Southeast Asia: energy, manufacturing, transport, agriculture, land use, and cities. (Substrategy: China National Policy)