World Bank's Open Learning Campus (Video)

In the last two decades, effectual entrepreneurship, a cognitive-theoretic approach to action in high-uncertainty environments, has been successfully implemented in universities around the world. This approach spells out particular lessons learned by expert entrepreneurs that can be taught in a classroom. In addition to university courses, efforts are under way to create programs for K-12 and in fields outside business, such as the arts, engineering, and social/public sector. For the webinar, Dr. Sarasvathy will elaborate on five specific policy implications based on effectual entrepreneurship. These can be summarized as follows:

Teach entrepreneurship to everyone, not only to potential entrepreneurs

Collect data on exits

Focus on growing the middle class of businesses, not gazelles

Create an experienced entrepreneur corps of mentors

Learn to think about employment differently

Put simply, effectuation enables anyone and everyone to work with things already within their control to co-create a better future. For info on course content and supporting research: effectuation.org

IT Focus is the webinar series that looks into the latest information technology issues as they relate to the World Bank.

The frontier in leading change for development lies in building collective capacity of leaders and change agents to come together and make change happen and deliver visible results. In this installment of the BBL series Dr. Wiebke Koenig,

Head of Global Leadership Academy at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit in Germany discusses how to address the many dimensions of this complex development challenge in her lecture, Leaders For Development: When Everything Else Fails.

Canada is now considered among the world’s more mature PPP markets. Clarity and predictability built into the PPP process through robust frameworks and guidelines are among the distinguishing features of such markets.

This webinar will discuss Canadian PPP frameworks and guidelines and their key strengths, along with their applicability to other jurisdictions worldwide.

Space is limited, we encourage you to register early and we look forward to your participation.

To learn more about the PPP Webinar Series and other PPP news, follow us on Twitter @WBG_PPP - #PPPs.

This webinar aims to review Kenya’s infrastructure financing and PPP program from the lenses of its legal and regulatory frameworks.

Kenya issued a National PPP policy in 2012 and adopted a PPP Act in 2013 facilitating the establishment of a PPP Unit in the National Treasury. Efforts are also underway to develop a framework for Government Support Mechanisms and another for managing Fiscal Commitments and Contingent Liabilities (FCCL).

One challenge that Kenya faces with its PPP program is that, although there is strong interest from county governments in implementing PPPs as a means of financing local infrastructure development, there is a dearth of information on the potential pipeline of county PPP projects; the required policy, regulatory and institutional arrangements that need to be put in place to support county PPPs; and clarity on the roles and responsibilities of counties vis-à-vis national Ministries and agencies.

Space is limited, we encourage you to register early and we look forward to your participation.

To learn more about the PPP Webinar Series and other PPP news, follow us on Twitter @WBG_PPP - #PPPs.

This webinar will discuss important features of the legal and regulatory framework for PPPs in Kosovo, including defining PPPs, preparation for and procurement of such contracts, and institutional roles and responsibilities involved in Kosovo’s PPPs.

It will also focus on the impact of the legal and regulatory framework on financing of PPPs; the strengths, challenges and practical implications of the framework in Kosovo; and future prospects of refining that framework.

Space is limited, we encourage you to register early and we look forward to your participation.

To learn more about the PPP Webinar Series and other PPP news, follow us on Twitter @WBG_PPP - #PPPs.

The second webinar presents who proactive engagement with identified beneficiaries, leveraging the ubiquitous presence of ordinary cell phones, can help fight petty corruption, improve service delivery and help improve trust in the state. In particular, the webinar will focus on how this mode of engagement, already widely practiced in the private sector, can help deliver quick wins and political dividends to create space for more reforms. It will also show that it can be implemented in a wide variety of public sector service delivery settings at a relatively low cost.

While climate change represents a massive threat to the planet and imperils progress made in economic development, it also represents an historic opportunity to innovate in large and rapidly growing markets. The World Bank estimates that climate-related sectors will garner $6.4 trillion in investment over the next decade in developing countries alone. The urgency for climate technology innovation is growing as the effects of climate change becomes a reality and more actions are implemented to address it.

During this webinar, Jonathan Coony will discuss where the opportunities lie and what is creating them, how innovation in climate technology can be approached given the different sectors involved and the global scope of this issue. He will draw on country case studies to discuss approaches that are taken to create the needed innovation and examines new directions to develop useful and appropriate innovations that are needed to overcome the challenges of climate change.

Kuwait is seeking to mobilize enhanced private investment in infrastructure and services using the public-private partnerships model. As a part of this strategy, the Government of Kuwait has enacted a new PPP law (Law No. 116 of 2014) to replace its old law (Law No. 7 of 2008) and has developed new executive regulations to support the law. The Government of Kuwait has used the experience gained in the closing of the Az-Zour North IWPP Phase 1 project to add to the attractiveness of its enabling framework for PPPs. The new law codifies some of the mechanisms applied in the Az-Zour project.

Major challenges under the old law included problems in financing by Sharia-compliant banks due to restrictions in security over assets, as well as problems in understanding, for example, the responsibilities related to the establishment of the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV).

This webinar will discuss challenges to the old law and its replacement with the new law and regulations.

One billion people - 15% of the world’s population - live with some form of disability. They make up one of the largest excluded groups. Facing multiple barriers, persons with disabilities are more likely to be poor, less educated, discriminated against and unemployed.

To understand disability and design evidence-based and inclusive policies, governments and development organizations need reliable disability disaggregated data. However, multidimensional nature of disability makes measurement difficult. Data is patchy; where it is available, definitions and methodologies vary, making comparisons across countries problematic. Finding ways of collecting better data on persons with disabilities will help identify strategies to improve their well-being and implementing the SDGs.

In this webinar, Daniel Mont, an international expert on disability measurement and inclusive development, will discuss:

What are known data gaps on disability, and how they can be filled?

What are existing sources of data on disability?

What datasets could be analyzed from disability perspective?

How can we build and use evidence for more inclusive policy and development decisions?