Swachh Bharat programme adaptation of Egypt project

The US $1 billion ambitious Swachh Bharat Rural Sanitation Project in India is an adaptation of a similar successful programme of Egypt, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has said while citing this as an example of sharing of global best practices.

"Knowledge is flowing across the organisation and to our client countries, driving creativity and innovation," Kim said in his address to the plenary session of the World Bank Group in Washington.

He stated that the World Bank has successfully transferred knowledge and experience across regions.

"Through our new structure of Global Practices, knowledge sharing across countries has become easier and faster. For example, when the Government of India came to the Bank to prepare a major programme to expand sanitation services for the poor, we were able to transfer knowledge and experience from Egypt's Rural Sanitation Project and apply it in India," he said.