Priorities

Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

Investing in Human Capital

Fostering Resilience to Threats

Shaping Agile Operations

Targets

Safeguards Management

Complete the World Bank action plan to improve the management of safeguards and resettlement practices outcomes by FY16

85 % Progress
Target0 ⇒ 100%
Current85%
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Staff Diversity and Inclusion

Reach and maintain a staff diversity index of 1

13 % Progress
Target0.85 ⇒ 1.0
Current0.87
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Citizen Engagement

Incorporate beneficiary feedback in all projects, where those are identifiable, by FY18

93 % Progress
Target27 ⇒ 100%
Current95%
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Mapping Investments

Geo-coding 100% of World Bank Group investment projects globally

92 % Progress
Target0 ⇒ 100%
Current92%
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Climate Change

Increase climate change financing to $29 billion annually by 2020: $16 billion in direct finance and $13 billion in co-finance

9 % Progress
Target$8.4 ⇒ $16bn
Current$9.1bn
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Pandemic Preparedness

Disburse $518 million to support countries response to the Ebola outbreak

89 % Progress
Target$0 ⇒ $518m
Current$460m
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Pace of Business

In FY17, reduce time between project conception and disbursement by a third.

3 % Progress
Target28 ⇒ 19 months
Current28 months
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Universal Financial Access

Enable 1 billion adults to access a transaction account by 2020

64 % Progress
Target0 ⇒ 1bn
Current639m
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Fragility and Conflict

Increase IFC own-account investment in fragile settings by 50% between FY12 − FY16

100 % Progress
Target$358 ⇒ $537m
Current$662m
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Capital Mobilization

Mobilizing $32 billion in external capital by FY17

31 % Progress
Target0 ⇒ $32.4bn
Current$9.9bn
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Country Opinion Survey - Knowledge

Achieve average 7 out of 10 rating from stakeholders by FY17

100 % Progress
Target6.8 ⇒ 7.0
Current7.1
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Country Opinion Survey - Effectiveness & Results

Achieve average 7 out of 10 rating from stakeholders by FY17

33 % Progress
Target6.4 ⇒ 7.0
Current6.6
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Commitments

$24 billion
to accelerate universal health coverage in Africa
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Universal Health Coverage in Africa

World Bank Group and Global Fund expect to contribute $24 billion to UHC in Africa, with $15 billion from the Bank in the next 5 years

UHC in Africa: A Framework for Action, 2016 (p. 29)
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Connect 1.5 billion people online by 2020
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Global Connect Initiative

The World Bank Group is part of a multi-stakeholder partnership to connect 1.5 billion people to the internet by 2020

World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends (p. 7)
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$500 million to speed up response to pandemic threats
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Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility

Insuring poorest countries against serious disease outbreaks and recovery.

Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, dataviz, May 2016
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$2.5 billion toward adolescent girls education
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Educational Projects for Adolescent Girls

World Bank Group to invest $2.5 billion over 5 years in education projects benefiting adolescent girls

World Bank Group Gender Strategy (FY16-23), December 2015, (p.36)
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New poverty data every three years
from household surveys in the 78 poorest countries with the first round by 2020
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Poverty Survey

Household surveys to be conducted every three years in 78 of the poorest countries, with the first round to be completed by 2020

Data Deprivation: Another Deprivation to End, April 2015 (p. 20)
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$29 billion to tackle climate change
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Climate Change Financing

$29 billion climate finance in 2020, with $16 billion in World Bank Group commitments and $13 billion in co-financing

Climate Change Action Plan: 2016-2020, 2016 (p. 1)
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End maternal and child mortality by 2030
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Global Financing Facility

$12 billion over five-year for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health.

Global Financing Facility Business Plan, June 2015 (p. 16)
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$518 million to support countries response to pandemics
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Pandemic Response and Recovery

$518 million to countries affected by Ebola to respond to and recover from the crisis

World Development Report 2014 – Pandemic risk (p. 3).
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Universal financial access by 2020
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Universal Financial Access

World Bank Group to enable 1 billion adults to access a transaction account by 2020

Achieving Universal Financial Access by 2020, Infographic Jan 2016
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Featured Data

$ 8.50 per child
per year needed to meet the global stunting target
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The global target is to reduce from 160 to 100 million the stunting of children under 5 years old globally.
Reaching the Global Target to Reduce Stunting, July 2015
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2.4 billion
people live without access to a toilet
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Sanitation lies at the root of many other development challenges. Poor sanitation impacts public health, education, and the environment
A Waterway to Resilience: Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Report, 2016 (p.12)
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7 billion
tons of CO₂ covered by carbon pricing
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WBG, "Carbon finance for sustainable development : 2015 annual report," 2016
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½ world’s poor
will live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict and violence by 2030
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About 2 billion people live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict and high levels of violence.
World Bank - Fragility, Conflict and Violence, context section, 2015
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1.1 billion
people still live without electricity
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2.9 billion people rely on wood or other biomass for cooking and heating
RISE: Readiness for investment in sustainable energy: A tool for policymakers, 2014 (p.17)
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$ 37 billion
annual expected benefit from avoided pandemics and other major outbreaks
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This would require investment of $3.4 billion annually to bring developing country health systems up to international standards for disease control.
Pandemic Risks, 2014 (p. 33)
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2 billion
adults lack access to financial services
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From 2011 to 2014 the share of unbanked adults dropped from 49% to 38%, but 2 billion adults are still unbanked.
Global Findex, April 2015
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$ 19.5 billion
in government revenues generated by IFC clients
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IFC investment clients also supported 2.5 million jobs in 2014.
International Financial Corporation 2015 Annual Report
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$ 14.7 billion
in new loans issued by MIGA clients
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MIGA’s $2.3 billion in political risk insurance and credit enhancement guarantees underpinned investments in 2015
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency 2015 Annual Report
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50%
more food production is needed to feed the world’s 9 billion people by 2050
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More than $80 billion in public and private investment in agriculture is needed per year to eliminate hunger.
GAFSP 2014 Annual Report
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1.5 billion
people in developing countries lack any form of officially recognized identification
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Fewer than half of all adults in the poorest 40% of households have a bank account—an arrangement that requires an official ID.
Digital Identity: Towards Shared Principles for Public and Private Sector Cooperation, 2016 (p.10)
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125 million
people - more than the size of Mexico - gained access to clean, modern cooking fuel
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However, 2.9 billion people - more than India and China combined - still don't have access to clean, modern cooking fuel.
Progress Toward Sustainable Energy 2015, data for 2010-2012
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200 million
micro to medium enterprises in developing economies need access to better financial services
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200 to 245 million enterprises do not have a loan or overdraft, but are in need of one—the unserved—or do have a loan but still find access to finance—the underserved.
Closing the Credit Gap for Formal and Informal Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, 2013 (p. 7)
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162 million
children under 5 suffering from stunting in 2013.
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Reaching the Global Target to Reduce Stunting, July 2015
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18%
of the total energy consumption came from renewable sources in 2012
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Renewable energy’s contribution has to double from 18% to 36% by 2030 to meet the Sustainable Energy for All goal.
Progress Toward Sustainable Energy 2015
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1%
of the world population are forcibly displaced from their home
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⅙ of total official development assistance financing, or $21.8 billion, was spent on humanitarian assistance in 2015, which is just $340 per person
Forcibly Displaced: Toward a development approach supporting refugees[...], 2016
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