Sustainable Development Goals Atlas wins award

Health care in Ukraine, transforming development policy

EDITOR’S PICK 

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Atlas wins award from Data Visualization Society. The World Bank’s SDG Atlas won two honors from the prestigious Information is Beautiful awards, including the top honor for the Most Beautiful award. The site aims for audiences to discover, understand, and visualize progress towards achieving the SDGs by 2030. Learn more about trends and targets for each of the 17 goals. 

IN FOCUS 

Strengthening Ukraine's Healthcare in the Midst of War. Ensuring access to critical and preventative health care services is part of helping Ukraine’s people stay strong and resilient. Steady donor support has been crucial to this effort. As a result, the Government of Ukraine has managed to sustain critical health services—adapting to circumstances, innovating where possible, and meeting new needs. Learn more.

Transforming Development Policy at Scale Demands Ambitious Reforms to Public Administration. Influencing development policy decisions at the scale needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals will require strengthening entire government administrations. One promising new approach to influencing public policy—known as government analytics—is to use governments’ own data to understand how well government is functioning and diagnose ways to strengthen it. Read more.

PUBLICATIONS 

The Government Analytics Handbook. The Government Analytics Handbook presents frontier evidence and practitioner insights on leveraging data to make governments work better. Download.

BLOG 

Creating a powerful data visualization story: The winner of the Global Partnership-World Bank Data Viz Contest. See the winning entry of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the World Bank’s data viz contest, announced Thursday at the Festival de Datos in Uruguay. The entry, “From Drought to Floods: The Impact on Labor in the Coastal Zones of Uruguay, from East to West,” uses data to show how climate change is reshaping workers’ lives across Uruguay. Learn more.

VIDEO 

Striving for Clean Air in South Asia: Effective Regional Responses to End Air Pollution. South Asia is home to nine of the world’s ten cities with the worst air pollution, which causes an estimated two million premature deaths across the region each year and incurs significant economic costs. To end air pollution, cities, states, and countries need to work together and collaborate. 

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EVENT 

Partnering for Impact: Enabling and Mobilizing the Private Sector for Sustainable Development. The Law, Justice and Development Week is an annual conference organized by the Legal Vice Presidency of the World Bank. This year, we explore the vital role of development finance institutions, private sector investments, and public spending in addressing global challenges. Register here.

NEWS 

World Bank’s USD 3 billion 10-Year Sustainable Development Bond Garners Enthusiastic Support from Global Investment Community

JOBS 

Governance Specialist - Climate Finance Economist – Washington, DC 

Regional Manager, Global Partnership for Education Secretariat – Washington, DC 

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DATAVIZ

Violence across societies: What does data show about peace and security from a gender perspective? 

Globally, there are almost one billion people living in fragile or conflict-affected countries. Only in 2022, the world experienced more than 116,000 violent events, with nearly a third of them taking place in Ukraine. Explore more data.