Gender-Based Violence Prevention

Casabonne, U., & Constant, S. (2025). Guidance Note on Integrating Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) into Energy Projects. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U. et al. (2023). Guidance Note on Integrating VAWG in Disaster Risk Management Projects. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U., Arango, D., & Stanley, V. (2019). Guidance Note on Integrating VAWG Prevention and Response in Land Administration Projects. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U., Contreras Urbina, M., & Buitrago, D. (2022). How-To Note: Tool for Integrating Prevention and Response Actions for Violence Against Women and Girls in World Bank Operations. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Buvinić, M., Das Gupta, M., Casabonne, U., & Verwimp, P. (2013). Violent Conflict and Gender Inequality: An Overview. World Bank Research Observer, 28(1), 110–138. https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lks011

Gender Mainstreaming in Infrastructure, Energy and Transport

Kurshitashvili, N., Casabonne, U., Nikore, M., & Juneja, B. (2025). She Drives Change: A Toolkit for Redefining Opportunities for Women in Transport. Mobility and Transport Connectivity Series. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Canpolat, E., & Casabonne, U. (2021). Gender Differences in Behavior and Perceptions of Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings in Turkey. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U., Graiff, R., & Sacks, A. (2019). Energy Vulnerability in Female-Headed Households: Findings from the Listening to Citizens of Uzbekistan Survey. Washington, DC: World Bank.

World Bank (2020). Stepping Up Women’s STEM Careers in Infrastructure: An Overview of Promising Approaches. Washington, DC: World Bank.

World Bank (2019). Women in Water Utilities: Breaking Barriers. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Climate Change, Disaster Risk and Resilience

Casabonne, U., et al. (2024). The Gender Dimension of Climate Change in Egypt. Background paper for the Egypt Climate Change and Development Report. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U. et al. (2023). Guidance Note on Integrating VAWG in Disaster Risk Management Projects. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U., & Muller, M. (2017). Resilience or Resignation: Facing Droughts and Floods in Rural, Poor Bolivia. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Women’s Economic Empowerment, Labor Mobility, and Value Chains

Casabonne, U., et al. (2023). Improving Outcomes of Pacific Labor Mobility for Women, Families, and Communities: Insights from Kiribati, Tonga, and Vanuatu. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Muneeza, M. C. (2021). Enhancing Women’s Opportunities in Export-Oriented Agricultural Value Chains in Bangladesh. In Connecting to Thrive: Challenges and Opportunities of Transport Integration in Eastern South Asia. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U., Muller, M., Bortman, C., & Alvarez, P. (2020). Why Rural Women Use—or Avoid—Maternal Health Services: Insights from a Qualitative Study in Bolivia. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Women’s Agency, Voice, and Social Norms

World Bank (2023). Unlocking the Potential of Women and Adolescent Girls in Madagascar: Challenges and Opportunities in Enhancing Girls’ and Women’s Agency (Cahier 4). Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U., et al. (2021). Making Women’s Voices Count in Community Decision Making: A Qualitative Study of Two World Bank–Supported Projects in Armenia. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U., & Muldoon, R. (2017). Gender Norms in Flux: Bride Kidnapping and Women’s Civic Participation in the Kyrgyz Republic. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U., Muller, M., & Jiménez, B. (2015). Roads to the Agency: Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Gender Diagnostics, Country Assessments, and Institutional Reform

Muller, M., & Casabonne, U. (2020). Closing Gender Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Casabonne, U., Morrica, V., et al. (2019). Investing in Opportunities for All: Croatia Country Gender Assessment. Washington, DC: World Bank.

Prada, F., & Casabonne, U. (2001). Peru: Escenarios para la transición. In C. Freres & K. Pacheco (Eds.), Nuevos horizontes andinos: Escenarios regionales y políticas de la Unión Europea (pp. 85–107). Caracas: Recal/Aieti/Nueva Sociedad, 2002.

Bezanson, K., Casabonne, U., & Blockus, K. (2004). African Development Bank Group: Stepping Up to the Future—An Independent Evaluation of ADF VII, VIII, and IX Operations. Tunis: African Development Bank.  

Sagasti, F., Casabonne, U., & Prada, F. (2007). Power, Purse, and Numbers: A Diagnostic Study of the UN Budget and Finance Process and Structure. Study commissioned by the Four Nations Initiative on Governance and Management of the United Nations.

Bezanson, Keith, et al. (2001). A Foresight and Policy Study of the Multilateral Development Banks. Development Financing 2000:2, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex and Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Sagasti, F. et al. (2001). Financing and Providing Global Public Goods: Expectations and Prospects. Executive summary, Development Financing 2000 Series 2001:2, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden.

UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). (1999). The Human Cost of Transition: Human Security in South East Europe. New York.

Academic Publications

Buvinic, M., Das Gupta, M., and Casabonne, U. (2009). “Gender, Poverty and Demography: An Overview.” World Bank Economic Review 23 (3): 347–369. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhp015

Buvinić, M., Das Gupta, M., Casabonne, U., & Verwimp, P. (2013). Violent Conflict and Gender Inequality: An Overview. World Bank Research Observer, 28(1), 110–138. https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lks011

Casabonne, U., & Kenny, C. (2012). The Best Things in Life Are (Nearly) Free: Technology, Knowledge, and Global Health. World Development, 40(1), 21–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.06.009

Training Courses

Water, Women and Jobs (E-Course)
World Bank Open Learning Campus | 2020 | Global
Developed interactive training content to build practitioner capacity on gender equality in the water sector.

She Drives Change: A Toolkit for Redefining Opportunities for Women in Transport
World Bank | 2025 | Global
Co-authored a comprehensive online toolkit empowering transport professionals to identify and address gender disparities in mobility, employment, and entrepreneurship across key subsectors of transport.