Learning Lab

The World Bank’s Open Learning Campus (OLC) offers an extensive catalog of free, on-demand learning resources on development-related topics. To access the OLC courses, you will need to create an account at wbg.edcast.com.

Some courses may overlap categories. Updated October 1, 2025.

DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT

Introduction to Disaster Risk Management: Explore contemporary concepts and practices in disaster management and the paradigm shift from re-active to pro-active approaches.
Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) Online Training: Train in the PDNA methodology for determining the physical damages, economic losses, and costs of meeting recovery needs after a natural disaster.
Introduction to Gender and Disaster Risk Management: Learn how gender roles can affect risk and resilience to natural hazards and how to address these differences to ensure women and men benefit equally.
Strengthening Resilience: Innovative Approaches in Disaster Risk Financing and Risk Reduction: Improve understanding and implementation of advanced methodologies in disaster risk reduction and disaster risk financing.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND RESILIENCE

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty – Long Lasting Investments in a Changing World: Explore an innovative methodology to deal with infrastructure investment uncertainties and how it can be used to make robust decisions for long-term investments.
Safe and Resilient Cities: Learn about cutting-edge tools for vulnerability assessments, policies and programs, stocktaking and gaps analysis, and financial access.
Introduction to the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI): Understand the rationale and practices of the open data movement, tools for sharing geospatial data, and new approaches for communicating risk data.

Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) Fundamentals: Understand the ESF, which offers broad and systematic coverage of environmental and social risks and responds to development challenges that arise over time.
Solid Waste Management (SWM): Look at SWM core concepts and chain; finance, policy and institutions; the informal sector; and innovations to develop skills and fill knowledge gaps.
Water Pollution and Management Approaches: Understand the importance of water pollution control, why improving the management of water quality is critical, and stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities.
Training for Construction Workers: This orientation on safety, health, and the environment helps contractors build the capacity of workers.
Designing Sustainable Infrastructure Projects: Discover ways to make infrastructure projects sustainable through good design, including to address climate change, biodiversity, and other environmental and social issues.
Harnessing Urban Land for Livable Cities: Land Systems, Land Value Creation, and Sustainable Development: Deepen understanding of the intersection between urban land systems, land value creation and capture, and sustainable urban development.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Introduction to the Geo-Enabling Initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS): Learn about the rationale and uses of GEMS, which provides platforms for remote supervision, real-time risk monitoring, and portfolio mapping for coordination across projects and partners.
Student Assessment for Policymakers and Practitioners: Take a practical, step-by-step tour of student assessment for policy makers and practitioners.
Impact Evaluation Methods with Applications in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Gain insight into economic development as a process of trial and error, innovation, experimentation, and success and failure. How can policy makers and development practitioners be sure they are making a difference?

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Disruptive Technology for Sustainable Development Product Catalog - KIDS: Improve knowledge, learning, and professional networking related to the use of innovative technologies to “disrupt” environmentally sustainable development. Learn about emerging global practices to help address development challenges.
Harnessing Urban Land for Livable Cities: Land Systems, Land Value Creation, and Sustainable Development: Deepen understanding of the intersection between urban land systems, land value creation and capture, and sustainable urban development

DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY

Introduction to the Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI): Explore the rationale and practices of the open data movement, tools for sharing geospatial data, and new approaches for communicating risk data.
Introduction to the Geo-Enabling Initiative for Monitoring and Supervision (GEMS): Learn about the rationale and uses of GEMS, which provides platforms for remote supervision, real-time risk monitoring, and portfolio mapping for coordination across projects and partners.
Digital Skills: The Why, The What and The How: Examine materials developed under the Digital Skills Country Action Plan initiative launched by the World Bank for Africa.
Unveiling the Digital Government Readiness Assessment Toolkit: Understand the methodology and key features of the digital government readiness assessment toolkit and its online tool.
AI for Everyone: Learn, Navigate, and Lead: Visit a one-stop shop for self-paced learning content on artificial intelligence (AI).

FINANCIAL AND PROCUREMENT

Introduction to Rated Criteria: Learn about rated criteria and how they support better project outcomes. Review examples of how rated criteria are used successfully in World Bank-financed projects.
Fundamentals of Disaster Risk Finance: Gain insight into innovative disaster risk finance projects across the globe and how governments make difficult tradeoffs in the aftermath of a disaster.
Introduction to Disaster Risk Finance Analytics: Learn how to forecast the cost of future disasters and develop cost-effective disaster risk finance strategies through examples and hands-on exercises.
Implementing Rated Criteria to Support Successful Project Outcomes: Explore detailed tools and approaches to implement rated criteria in World Bank-financed projects, including the evaluation process.
2016 Procurement Framework Learning Modules (under Procurement iNet): Become familiar with the new procurement framework of the World Bank in three modules, including strategic planning and specific provisions.

HEALTH CARE AND SYSTEMS

Advocacy for Universal Health Coverage: Explore bitesize modules about the Universal Health Coverage 2030 Advocacy Guide and how you can use it to mobilize bottom-up change.
Basics of Health Economics: Understand the foundation for health economics and its potential contribution to decision making in the health sector.
Creating Changes in Health Systems: Explore strategies for the management of essential health services delivery like using RBF, and responses to the demand and supply of services.