Tertiary

FACEBOOK LIVE: World Bank education specialists discuss how Sri Lanka's universities can become world class institutions where students acquire the relevant skills.

In May 2016, around 100 innovative graduate students from universities across Bangladesh participated in the innovation incubator contest Make-A-Thon 2016. Within 3 days, they developed 32 prototypes to tackle problems affecting a wide range of sectors in the country: healthcare, transport and infrastructure, agriculture, biomedical engineering, energy generation, physical challenges, sustainable energy management and many more. Here are the 10 winning projects.

No country can end poverty without the full participation of women and men. Find out what IDA, the World Bank?s fund for the poorest, is doing to close the gender gap and boost prosperity for women.

Through its young people, Africa finds itself faced with an unprecedented opportunity. Every year between 2015 and 2035, close to five million more people will turn 15 years of age across the continent, while in the rest of the world the population will grow older. As noted in the 2014 World Bank report on youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, only a quarter of the young people who enter the labor market each year over the next decade will find a salaried position, and only a small fraction of them will secure formal employment in ?modern?

On 1 March, 2016, the World Bank launched the Tajikistan Higher Education Project in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The goal of the project, financed from the International Development Association for the amount of US$15 million, is to develop mechanisms that improve and monitor the quality and labor-market relevance of higher education in the country.