The World Bank’s Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) marked its 20th anniversary in October, celebrating 20 years of leveraging Japanese and global knowledge and expertise to maximize the impact of urban development projects.
TDLC was launched in 2004 as a partnership between the World Bank and the Government of Japan as a regional distance learning center in the Asia-Pacific. Twenty years on, TDLC has evolved into a global knowledge sharing hub.
TDLC’s signature “Technical Deep Dive” workshops have brought over 2,000 participants from 95 countries to Japan to learn from Japanese cities, generate new insights, and exchange actionable solutions. These weeklong workshops have covered a wide range of urban development topics, ranging from solid waste management to affordable housing, to age-ready cities, to transit-oriented development. To date, TDLC has delivered 50 Technical Deep Dive workshops, supporting 447 World Bank projects worth $73 billion across 95 countries.
Despite its name, TDLC doesn’t just work in Tokyo – it collaborates …