Interactive: The latest World Bank project pipeline data

Over the past months, the Devex team has been monitoring and analyzing the World Bank’s Monthly Operational Summary, or MOS reports. These documents offer insight into the bank’s early project cycle, and hint at its future funding priorities — allowing Devex to highlight changes and trends over time. Since our second analysis in July, we have continued to monitor the World Bank pipeline each month, capturing information as funding activities — our name for early-stage news, commitments, or pledges that imply future development funding opportunities for implementers. Here, we walk through the notable changes and trends we’ve seen in the World Bank’s pipeline data since our last analysis. Members can also do their own analysis using our interactive visualization of the data, which you can now filter month by month. Several new projects after the annual meetings The World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings took place in October this year, and appear to have had a salutary effect on the bank’s pipeline of projects. Normally, the MOS contains approximately 1,000 projects worth approximately $85 billion in World Bank funds (not accounting for funding from other contributions). The October MOS, on the other hand, contained 1,083 projects worth $106 billion dollars, largely attributable to a jump in “new projects” in the pipeline. “New” projects are projects at the beginning of the project cycle, and therefore furthest from approval and from generating business opportunities. Many new, high-value projects appeared in October in a few key countries: India (10 new projects worth $3.4 billion); Nigeria (six new projects worth $3.2 billion); Ethiopia (five new projects worth $1.8 billion); China (five new projects worth $1.5 billion); and Tanzania (eight new projects worth $1.3 billion). Projects labeled “Approval Completed,” on the other hand, are those about to exit the project pipeline and enter the implementation — and opportunity generation — phase. Many of the projects in this phase as of October fall into three World Bank sectors: the broadly named “Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Global Practice” (53 approved projects worth $3.3 billion); Water (34 approved projects worth $3.3 billion); and Transport and ICT Infrastructure (35 approved projects worth $3.1 billion). To see the more details of the projects in the World Bank’s pipeline or perform your own analysis of World Bank priorities, visit our updated interactive World Bank pipeline dashboard. Do you have questions about our methodology or a specific opportunity? Reach out to our experts at analysts@devex.com for more information. Check out more practical business and development advice online, and subscribe to Money Matters to receive the latest contract award and shortlist announcements, and procurement and fundraising news.