Training funds are now widely used to finance skills development, but their results are uneven. Too often, they count people trained without showing whether graduates find work or whether employers …
Skills
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Education & Innovation
Half your skills came from work. Policy hasn’t caught up
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauWhere did you accumulate most of your human capital? You may think it was in school, but you would be forgetting an equally important setting: the workplace. Roughly half of …
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Global Affairs
Partnership powers progress: what partners are teaching us about work, skills, and a changing world
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauWe’ve all seen the “on paper” version of partnership: joint press releases, polished logos on reports, and carefully staged side events. But there’s a much more powerful version — the one that …
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By Catlyne Haddaoui, Senior Associate, Just Transition, Climate, Economics and Finance Program, World Resources Institute; Dr. Oliver Ashford, Senior Program Associate, Ocean Program, World Resources Institute; Liesbet Steer, Executive Director, People in the …
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Economy & Development
World Bank Approves Programs to Support Skills, Jobs, and Social Protection for Three Million Tanzanians
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauWASHINGTON, March 31, 2026 – More than three million Tanzanians are expected to benefit from two new World Bank–supported programs in the high-need sectors of education and social protection. The new …