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This blog highlights two studies from past World Bank's Knowledge for Change Program (KCP)-supported research that demonstrate the importance of a data-driven and evidence-based approach to policymaking around biodiversity.

In this blog, we highlight two projects that leveraged data-driven policymaking processes and simulations.

This blog is part of a series that highlights insights from research for development policies and practices. It zooms in on the role of parents in children’s educational outcomes and illustrates evidence of effective mobilization strategies.

More than 2.2 billion people live their lives without access to safe water. This Knowledge for Change Program (KCP) blog highlights three pieces research that focus on the public good nature of water resources.

The fight against corruption had taken the center stage in the development community. In the decades to come, a myriad of anticorruption programs would be implemented across the globe.

At the end of 2020, 82.4 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide, which accounts for more than 1 percent of the world’s total population. Most of them had no choice but to leave their homes to escape wars, violence, or sustained conflicts.

Women’s rights activists have observed November 25 as a day to increase awareness of the fight against gender-based violence since the early 1980s, and the United Nations officially designated it as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in 2000.

How can we establish a closer link between knowledge and policy responses? What is the best way to construct research partnerships so that analytical capacities of local stakeholders are truly enhanced after a development project concludes?

Learning from previous research: how to protect and train the healthcare workforce for pandemic response and effective vaccination rollout People vaccination concept for immunity health. Evellean / Shutterstock.com This blog entry is in a series that highlights insights from research for development policies and practice, supported by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP). The COVID-19 pandemic tests the resilience of primary health care systems and raises questions of how to maintain healthca...

Learning from previous research: What to do when a global health crisis morphs into a global food crisis Ulderico Parado over looks his rice fields in Cagao Village in Palo, Leyte. Photo © Dominic Chavez/World This blog is the third in a series that highlights insights from research for development policies and practice, supported by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP).  One of the most crucial benefits of empirical research is that it helps us learn from the past, so that we won’t repe...