Improving Transport Connectivity for Food Security in Africa: Strengthening Supply Chains examines the continent’s food production and distribution. The report scrutinizes transport routes over land and water, the efficiency of ports and border crossings, and the adequacy of storage capacity to several key questions:
The Assam Inland Water Transport Project improved ferry infrastructure and services in the state of Assam, India, making water transport safer, more accessible, and reliable. Key barriers for women ferry users included poor terminal access, inadequate amenities, harassment risks, and ineffective complaint mechanisms.
World Public Transport Day is taking place on . Itʼs a global celebration of the journeys that move us and the people who make them possible. From everyday commutes to extraordinary destinations, itʼs a day to celebrate how public transport connects us all – to work, to life, to each other. Learn more about the celebration and plan your trip using NextRide. Share
Our Story Bus The Regional Transportation District was created in 1969 by the 47th session of the Colorado General Assembly. Efforts in these early years focused on regional transportation planning. In 1973 voters approved a 0.5% sales tax initiative to finance a $1.56 billion multi-modal transit system. At this time, RTD acquired privately owned bus companies, improved service frequencies ...
The World Bank supports countries in building safe, sustainable, and inclusive transport systems—connecting people to jobs, markets, and opportunities.
Air transport is an important enabler to achieving economic growth and development. Air transport facilitates integration into the global economy and provides vital connectivity on a national, regional, and international scale. It helps generate trade, promote tourism, and create employment ...
A new World Bank report, Transport for Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strengthening Supply Chains, proposes several priority actions to reduce transport costs and improve food security across the continent. These recommendations can help transform Africa’s hunger zones to places where food is more abundant and easily distributed.
The World Bank has approved a $200 million project to modernize transport infrastructure in Uzbekistan’s Surkhandarya region, supporting job creation, regional connectivity, and sector-wide reforms.
Shrinking the economic distance, or reducing transport prices and time related costs, between people and firms can greatly benefit developing economies by boosting productivity, creating jobs, raising incomes, enhancing food security, and lowering carbon emissions. Achieving these benefits requires efficient, high-quality transport.
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India’s transport network is one of the largest and densest in the world. Its roads rank third in terms of length, next only to China and the United States.
The $1.5 billion operation addresses South Africa’s twin economic challenges of low growth and high unemployment by easing infrastructure constraints in the energy and freight transport sectors, which have severely impacted businesses and households in recent years, disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable.
More than 1,000 partners from the private sector, government and civil society are working together through the 2030 Water Resources Group. The group has facilitated close to $1 billion of financing for water-related programmes. This multistakeholder collaboration aims to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030.
India's water systems are under significant strain, but engineering solutions must be paired with institutional, behavioural and cultural approaches. The country holds nearly 18% of the world’s population but has access to only about 4% of global freshwater resources, so solutions are needed. Infrastructure alone cannot stabilize India's water future; experience shows it must be paired with ...
Semiconductor manufacturing requires huge amounts of water to form ultrapure water, impacting the local environment and needing innovation and scrutiny.
Data centres cause accelerating water usage, requiring innovative water circularity solutions; however, collaboration will be critical for their success.
Protecting the global water cycle can help us achieve many of the SDGs. Here's how public-partnerships can unlock innovative solutions for a sustainable future.
World Water Day is held every year on 22 March to raise awareness of global freshwater challenges and solutions. This year's theme is Water and Gender, highlighting how water insecurity fuels inequality and exploring how women's voices and leadership can make water a force for a healthier and gender-equal future. The World Economic Forum's Water Futures Community is a collaborative platform ...
Water’s full value is vast and multidimensional but these values are often overlooked in investment decisions. Chronic underinvestment, fragmented financing and limited private sector participation prevent water systems from realizing their full economic, social and environmental potential. Tools and frameworks are emerging to operationalize water valuation and help stakeholders measure ...
Urban areas are at the sharp end of the water crisis. Six cities, from Accra to San Francisco, show how public-private collaboration scales solutions.
Water scarcity, pollution and extreme weather events driven by climate change, population growth and industrial demand are pushing global water systems to critical levels. Building water resilience hinges on cross-sector partnerships, tailored financing and adopting innovative governance and policy frameworks. Five essential strategies – holistic water valuation, fit-for-purpose financing ...
Water, energy and the power mix Power-generation technologies have sharply different water profiles. Choices about the generation mix and where infrastructure is built shape how exposed a country becomes to water-related issues that can limit operations, slow approvals, and worsen climate-driven water stress.
The water-energy nexus: why managing water stress is the key to the ...
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Canada is the second-biggest country on earth, yet over 80 per cent of its land is uninhabited, and most Canadians live clustered in a handful of large cities close to the U.S. border. This reality stems from Canada’s unique geography, which is, all things considered, rather unfriendly to humans.