With an emphasis on upstream challenges like strengthening national policies and building institutions, the WBG tailors its support to help client countries address their own specific challenges to achieving the twin goals and SDGs. The breadth and depth of this support—not always easy to quantify or aggregate—goes well beyond the topline statistics.
For example, the World Bank helped Cambodia create sustainable government institutions for health care management that has ultimately improved the quality and equity of its health services, and the country now provides 2 million free visits per year for the poorest Cambodians.
In Argentina, the World Bank helped the government strengthen the country’s road safety management capacity, resulting in significant reductions in road accidents and fatalities in targeted areas, and institutionalizing policies to coordinate the agenda nationally.
And in Somalia, the World Bank responded rapidly to the third devastating drought in two decades and working with partners was able to help the government avoid famine and triple the number of households able to consume at least two meals per day
These examples are drawn from a database of over one thousand results stories from across the globe, available at www.worldbank.org/results.
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