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10467: Marketing Rural Sanitation Improvements in Tanzania

Jason Cardosi, Kaposo Mwambuli and Alice Indodi

10466: The Enterprise Resource Management System for Water Service Providers in Cambodia

Virak Chan

10465: Driving Performance through Center of Government Delivery Units

World Bank

10464: The Challenge of Ensuring Adequate Stocks of Essential Drugs in Rural Health Clinics

World Bank

10463: Using Market Finance to Extend Water Supply Services in Peri-Urban and Rural Kenya

Rajesh Advani

10462: Improving Rural Water Service in Rwanda with Public-Private Partnerships

Christophe Prevost, Bruno Mwanafunzi and Nitin Jain

10461: Thinking Outside the Pipeline: Venturing into Distributed Off-Grid Water Markets

Vikram Kumar and Will Davies

10460: Using Strategic Communications to Engage Stakeholders in Tax Reform

Shaela Rahman

10459: VAT Media Campaign in Lao PDR Results in a Big Bang for the Buck

Shaela Rahman and Ka Ying Yang

10458: Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: Combating the Resource Curse in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries

Georg Caspary and Verena Seiler

10457: Can Targeted Assistance Help the Very Poor?

World Bank

10456: Assessing Country Readiness for Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation to Support Results Informed Budgeting

Jody Zall Kusek

10455: Can Computers Help Students Learn?

World Bank

10454: When it Rains, Use an Umbrella: Lessons in High-Risk Infrastructure Communications from the Bujagali Hydropower Project

Christopher Walsh

10453: Lost at Sea? Navigate! Using Metrics and Results to Establish the Value of Communications and Knowledge in Sanitation and Water Service Delivery

Christopher Walsh

10452: The Fight for Minds: Applying Strategic Communications to Achieve a Sectoral Transformation

Kristina Turilova and Maria Sigutina

10451: Do Food Supplements Help Children in Times of Economic Crisis?

World Bank

10450: Managing a Sustainable Results Based Management (RBM) System

World Bank

10449: Pilot Land Reforms in Nigeria: Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast! …but Where Do We Start?

Nouma Dione-Mbaye and Catherine Masinde

10448: Can Bonus Payments Improve the Quality of Health Care?

World Bank

10447: Sowing the Seeds of Sustainability: A Case Project with Unifrutti, IFC, and Smallholder Banana Farmers in the Philippines

Natalie Macawaris, Colin Taylor and Carla Zamora-Galinato

10446: Communications for the Ones Who Never Spoke: Running the MIM Marathon in the Peruvian Highlands

Karla Diaz Clarke and Fernando Ruiz-Mier

10445: Giving Women a Bigger Voice in Rural China

Patricia Fernandes

10444: Turning Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management into Implementation: Adventures in Business Registration Reform Practice

Dobromir Christow

10443: A Roadmap for Tracking Knowledge Results – Experiences and Challenges

Christopher Walsh, Yehude Simon, Sheryl Silverman and Sara Sultan

10442: Lessons from the Reconstruction of Post-Tsunami Aceh: Build Back Better Through Ensuring Women are at the Center of Reconstruction of Land and Property

Keith Clifford Bell

10441: Business Collaboration Meets Social Collaboration: Building a Community for SharePoint Users

Javier Munoz

10440: Interactive Theater, an Engaging Knowledge Management Tool for IFC Training!

Ben Saypol

10439: Building a Community of Superusers to Leverage a Collaboration Platform

Maggie Tunning

10438: Implementing a Collaboration Platform: Making Behavior Change Part of the Plan

Jacqueline Devine and Sheryl Silverman

10437: How to Discuss Failure—and Not Get Fired! Lessons from a 2011 Human Development Forum Session

Galina Voytsehovska

10436: Truly Teaming: Partnering to Integrate Gender in Kenya’s Water Sector

Asa Torkelsson, Rosemary Rop and Theresa Wasike

10435: Pathways to Development Empowering Local Women to Build a More Equitable Future in Vietnam

Phuong Thi Minh Tran

10434: Employing Women: A Boon for a Chemical Plant in India

Larry Jiang

10433: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs through Legal Reform and Business Associations

Anna Nadgrodkiewicz and Hammad Siddiqui

10432: Empowering Women in Pakistan: Commercial Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms

Navin Merchant and Isfandyar Ali Khan

10431: Time Banking™ Is More Than Money for Women in Senegal

Angana Shah and Pape Samb

10430: Commitment to a Lady’s First WIN: Banking Innovation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Vivian Awiti Owuor

10429: Overcoming Skepticism about Technical Assistance Projects: The Story of the Agribusiness Competitiveness Center in the Kyrgyz Republic

Sandra Broka and Talaibek Koshmatov

10428: Taking Haitian Agriculture to the Clouds: Implementing Google Apps for Government at the Ministry of Agriculture

Diego Arias and Nicolas Weber

10427: Growing Fish to Make Money in Africa

Randall Brummett

10426: Do Vouchers for Job Training Programs Help?

World Bank

10425: The Grain Chain: Food Security and Managing Wheat Imports in Arab Countries

Julian Lampietti, Donald Larson, Michelle Battat, Dana Erekat, Arnold De Hartog and Sean Michaels

10424: Eyeing the Future of Agriculture: A Vision for Agricultural Innovation in Chile

Willem Janssen, Riikka Rajalahti, Svetlana Edmeades and Beatriz Nussbaumer

10423: GO LITE! Increasing Scale and Impact by Combining Diagnostics and Training Lessons from the Ukraine Food Safety Project

Sarah Ockman

10422: Putting Trade Logistics Reform “on the Map” in Armenia

Gagik Gabrielyan, Ankur Huria and Arsen Nazaryan

10421: It’s All About Teamwork: Unlocking Opportunities for Agribusiness in Ukraine

Alberto Criscuolo and Shaela Rahman

10420: Building a Line of Defense Against Climate Change: From Reactive Coping to Adaptive Capacity in China's Irrigated Agricultural Development

Bjorn Conrad and Qun Li

10419: Assessing the Carbon Benefits of Improved Land Management Technologies

Ademola Braimoh

10418: Do School Feeding Programs Help Children?

World Bank

10417: How Can We Make Schools Work Better?

World Bank

10416: Political Risk: The Missing Link in Understanding Investment Climate Reform?

Stephan Dreyhaupt, Ivan Nimac and Kusi Hornberger

10415: Is Preschool Good for Kids?

World Bank

10414: Can Cash Transfers Help Children Stay Healthy?

World Bank

10413: Guinea: A Steady Growth Path to Achieve Education for All

World Bank

10412: Achieving Universal Primary Education in Uganda: The ‘Big Bang’ Approach

Carla Bertoncino, Paud Murphy and Lianqin Wang

10411: Social Exclusion in Urban Uruguay

Judy L. Baker

10410: Trade Liberalization and Labor Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s

Indermit S. Gill, William Maloney and Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

10409: Fighting HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean

Patricio Marquez

10408: Urban Upgrading in Latin America and the Caribbean

Dean A. Cira

10407: Achieving Education for All in Post-Conflict Cambodia

Christopher J. Thomas

10406: Colombia: Development and Peace in the Magdalena Medio Region

World Bank

10405: Bringing Microfinance Services to the Poor: Crediamigo in Brazil

Rita Valente, Susana M. Sanchez and Sophie Sirtaine

10404: Child Labor in Bolivia and Colombia

Christiaan Grootaert and Harry Patrinos

10403: Reaching the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America: Preliminary Results

World Bank

10402: Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation in Northeast Brazil

Luis Coirolo and Tulio Barbosa

10401: Improving Schools and Schooling in Brazil: The Fundescola Approach

Robin Horn

10400: The Prototype Carbon Fund in Latin America: Lessons Learned

Francisco Fernandez-Asin

10399: Empowering the Poor: Engaging Civil Society in World Bank Operations

World Bank

10398: Chile's Millennium Science Initiative: Building Human Capital for the Global Knowledge Economy

Lauritz Holm-Nielsen and Alex Norsworthy

10397: Guiding the Way to New Opportunities in the Copán Valley, Honduras

Maria-Valéria Junho Pena and Kathryn Johns Swartz

10396: Mexico's PROGRESA: Innovative Targeting, Gender Focus and Impact on Social Welfare

Corinne Siaens, Quentin Wodon, Shlomo Yitzhaki and Benedicte de la Briere

10395: Lessons from the Rain Forest: Experiences of the Pilot Program to Conserve the Amazon and Atlantic Forests of Brazil

World Bank

10394: Colombia: Reforming the Social Safety Net

Laura B. Rawlings

10393: Providing Skills for the Knowledge Economy: The World Bank in Tertiary Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, Andreas Blom and Patricia Garcia

10392: Chile: Accelerating e-Business for Small Business Innovation and Growth

James Hanna

10391: Mexico: Reaching the Poor with Basic Health Services

Patricio Marquez and Willy de Geyndt

10389: Including the Disabled: The Chiminike Interactive Learning Center in Honduras

Maria Valéria Pena and Barbara Brakarz

10388: The Impact of Vulnerability and Shocks on the Poor: The GUAPA Program in Guatmala

Emil Tesliuc and Kathy Lindert

10387: Colombia - Expanding Services to Low-Income Areas Comparing Private and Public Water Utilities

Maria Angelica Sotomayor

10386: EFA in Indonesia: Hard Lessons About Quality

World Bank

10385: Big Steps in a Big Country: Brazil Makes Fast Progress Toward EFA

World Bank

10384: Closing the Gap in Education and Technology

Guillermo Perry

10382: Ecuador: Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Tourism and Small Business Innovation and Growth in the Galapagos

Jose Valdivieso, Bob Toth, James Hanna and Juan Quintero

10381: Identity and Leadership in the Afro-Peruvian Communities of San Luis de Canete, Peru

Josefina Stubbs and Hiska Reyes

10380: Education for All: Including Children with Disabilities

Susan Peters

10379: Empowering Autochthonous Peoples in Honduras: The Nuestras Raices (Our Roots) Program

Ximena Traa-Valarezo and Jorge Rodríguez

10378: Education for All: Building the Schools

Serge Theunynck

10377: Bringing the School to the Children: Shortening the Path to EFA

Douglas Lehman

10376: Missed Opportunities: Innovation and Resource-Based Growth

William Maloney

10375: Economic Analysis of Urban Upgrading Projects

Maria Angélica Sotomayor

10374: Natural Disasters and the Urban Poor

Francis Ghesquiere, Marianne Fay and Tova Solo

10373: Cafta: Challenges and Opportunities in the Agricultural and Agro-Industrial Sectors

Ricardo Monge-González, Miguel Loría-Sagot and Claudio González-Vega

10372: Costa Rica - Social Spending and the Poor

Helena Ribe and Roxana Víquez

10371: Protecting the Poor Through Programmatic Adjustment Lending in Peru, Brazil and Colombia

Evangeline Javier, Vicente Paqueo, Laura B. Rawlings and Alberto Rodriguez

10370: Conditional Cash Transfer: Programs an Effective Tool for Reaching the Poorest and Most Vulnerable

Andrea Vermehren

10369: Pooling, Saving, and Prevention: A Comprehensive Insurance Approach to Social Risk Management

Truman Packard

10368: Voices of the Girls: Crossing the Barriers Between Youth, Gender, and Poverty

Sandra Cesilini, Lisandro Martin and Caroline Aberg

10367: Argentina's Cartas Compromiso: Strengthening the Role of Civil Society for More Accountable Public Services

Magüi Moreno Torres

10366: Social Accountability Around Emergency Operations

Sandra Cesilini, Indu John-Abraham and Lisandro Martin