Consultant on Crop Field Imagery Services in Ukraine
See full tender here: Consultant on Crop Field Imagery Services Ukraine
Expression of Interest Deadline: 16 March 2015
Monthly Archives: March 2015
New service delivery models for TB service delivery in Ukraine
The World Bank is looking to hire the services of an experienced firm to (a) conceptualize a pilot project for community-based TB service delivery (b) develop a pilot project implementation manual, and (c) provide support for implementation of the pilot project.
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Understanding well performing utilities in SSA
Understanding the technical and poltical dynamics of water utilities reaching the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Planned for May-October, this is part of a wider study of institutional factors affecting utilities’ reaching the urban poor in SSA. The team will analyze (mainly existing) data and literature for 8 well-performing and 10 other utilities – up to 8 city visits.
3rd NL4WorldBank newsletter posted
The third NL4WorldBank newsletter was published and distributed on Wednesday, March 4th. The newsletter features the most popular blogposts of the last three months, highlights the latest edition of the guidebook ‘Zakendoen met de Wereldbank’, and a number of interesting eConsultant2 tenders.
Punjab Rural Water and Sanitation Sector Improvement Project
On March 24, 2015, the Punjab Rural Water and 
Sanitation Sector Improvement Project is scheduled to be discussed and decided on by the World Bank Board of Directors. The project involves a total of $354 million, of which the borrower brings in $106 million, and the IBRD puts in $248 million. The goal of the project is ‘to improve water and sanitation service levels, reduce open defecation, and strengthen service delivery
arrangements in targeted villages in Punjab’.
The project consists of 4 components:
Job posting: Operations Officer, Agriculture & Rural Development
The CGIAR Fund is a multi-donor trust fund that finances CGIAR research. The fund is looking for an Operations Officer.
Closing date: 14 March, 2015
Health services access project – Myanmar
Press release published on the World Bank website.
The Essential Health Services Access Project will provide US$100 million in funding for increased and improved coverage of critical health services across Myanmar’s 330 townships. The project — initially approved by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors in October 2014 — is expected to benefit more than 4 million pregnant women and young children.
“We are pleased to be able to invest in 
quality health services for all people in Myanmar. Better health services will improve the quality of life for mothers and their young children, and, ultimately, will help bring us closer to achieving the ambitious goal of universal health coverage,” said Dr. Thein Thein Htay, Deputy Minister, Myanmar Ministry of Health.
Further developing the Netherlands-World Bank Group relationship
The World Bank is a global entity known for its proactive development efforts. In order to reach its goal of ‘ending poverty’ worldwide, the World Bank needs all the help it can get. The World Bank, primarily a financial institution and secondarily a knowledge institution, therefore relies on local government, civil society, companies and donors to provide the means, experience, knowledge and capacity to end poverty.
Since the inception of the World Bank
, the Netherlands has been a contributor to the Bank’s cause. The Netherlands was one of the first recipients of a World Bank loan, aimed to modernize and expand the fleet of the Royal Dutch Airlines, and has been a staunch supporter ever since. Today, we are ranked 7th among the development partners in terms of contributions to the WBG Trust Funds between 2009-2014, and are one of the largest contributors to IDA.
Given fiscal restraints in recent years, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sought to ensure an even bigger development bang for each buck. Over the last few years we have refocused our development coordination strategy to several core fields. In early February, policy meetings were held between the Netherlands and the World Bank in which this renewed focus was agreed upon: “[The World Bank Group and the Netherlands] agreed on strengthening their partnership in strategic priorities, finding new ways of working together, and exploring the implications of our partnership in light of the recent organizational changes within the World Bank Group”. The shining example of these partnerships is our cooperation in the field of water.
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World Bank course – Agriculture Innovation Systems
New Agriculture Innovation Systems course available: http://bit.ly/1BPCXh4.
Meeting rising global demand for food and responding to changes such as climate change, globalization, and urbanization will thus require good policy, sustained investments, and innovation – not business as usual. Agricultural innovation enables the agriculture sector, farmers and rural entrepreneurs to adapt rapidly when challenges occur and to respond readily when new opportunities arise – for example in the fields of technology and markets.
Inland Water Terminals – Technical Consultant, India
As a part of its overall objective of developing the inland water transport sector in India, IWAI intends to develop terminals located across all the waterways of the country. IWAI has also adopted a policy of developing these terminals, to the extent possible, on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. In this regard, IFC is seeking to hire a Technical Consultant for screening the terminals and help in understanding the business case for each of these terminals. This would entail a broad assessment of the cargo potential, type of cargo and identification of potential cargo owners for each terminal. The consultant will be expected to take into consideration the work of an ongoing World Bank funded study which is similar.
See full tender here: Inland Water Terminals – Technical Consultant, India
Expression of Interest Deadline: 09 March 2015
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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