eC2: Capacity Building and Risk Transfer Pilot in Mozambique

Deadline: 30-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: Applicants may request to apply for a capacity building and implementation of risk transfer pilot support. A Risk Transfer Pilot Project is a project that develops and issues an index-based insurance product for cotton and other crops for one or more clients in Mozambique.
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eC2: Business case assessment for Bonsucro sustainability standard and improvement framework for sugar mills and smallholder value chains in India

Deadline: 04-Dec-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: IFC and Bonsucro are interested to undertake a business case assessment for Bonsucro sustainability standard and improvement framework for sugar mills and smallholder value chains in India.

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eC2: SERBIA NATIONAL DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN (NDRMP): FLOOD RISK MAPPING

Deadline: 04-Dec-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) Rural Infra in Cambodia

Objective: The objective of Component 2 on Disaster Risk Identification and Monitoring within the Programmatic Approach is to support the Government of Serbia, in particular the Serbian water sector institutions under the Ministry of Agriculture, in generating actionable flood risk information and to strengthen (flood) risk assessment methodologies. Serbia completed a preliminary flood risk assessment in 2011 and defined 99 flood prone areas throughout the country. Following this, 25 out of those 99 flood prone areas were mapped during the Study of Flood Prone Areas in Serbia (SoFPAS) project finalized in 2012.

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Addressing Climate Change: Why Forests Matter?

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  • Over 100 countries included actions related to land-use change and forests in their nationally determined contributions to fight climate change
  • The World Bank is supporting countries in their efforts to harness the potential of forests to reduce poverty, better integrate forests into their economies, and protect and strengthen the environmental role they play
  • Forest-focused initiatives in China, Mexico and Mozambique are showing positive results, but more is needed to accelerate climate action and deliver on the Paris Agreement

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Swallowed by the Sea…Where coastal infrastructure and jobs meet climate change

Life is shifting fast for coastal communities in West Africa. In some areas, coastlines are eroding as much as 10 meters per year. Stronger storms and rising seas are wiping out homes, roads and buildings that have served as landmarks for generations.

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I was recently in West Africa to witness the effects of coastal erosion. To understand what’s going on, we took a three-country road trip, traveling from Benin’s capital Cotonou, along the coast to Lomé in Togo and then to Keta and Accra in Ghana. These three countries, among the hardest hit by coastal erosion, offer a snapshot of what is happening along the rest of the coast, from Mauritania, via Senegal to Nigeria. 

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World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan 2016-2020

K8860_pdfClimate change poses an enormous challenge to development. By 2050, the world will have to feed 9 billion people, extend housing and services to 2 billion new urban residents, and provide universal access to affordable energy, and do so while bringing down global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that make a sustainable future possible. At the same time, floods, droughts, sea-level rise, threats to water and food security and the frequency of natural disasters will intensify, threatening to push 100 million more people into poverty in the next 15 years alone.

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eC2: Executive Education: Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance

Deadline: 30-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) vn-communitybased-disasterrisk-780x439

Objective: The objective is to develop a 4-day modular capacity building program on Disaster Risk Financing(DRF)to enhance understanding of DRF strategies and instruments for protection from natural disasters, embedded in the broader Disaster Risk Management and fiscal risk management frameworks, and build the skills of stakeholders to design and implement such strategies.

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eC2: Second Verification of Reforestation on Degraded Lands in Northwest Guangxi

Deadline: 16-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: The firm will conduct Second Verification of Reforestation on Degraded Lands in Northwest Guangxi (CDM Reference No. 3561). The project activity established 6,849 ha of multiple-purposes forests on degraded lands in Longlin, Tianlin and Lingyun Counties of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China.

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Climate-related projects 2017 of the Worldbank

In FY2017, the WBG provided over $12 billion in financing for climate-related projects. Some results from our work include:

Cities:

  • In Vietnam, the World Bank has assisted the city of Can Tho to become more climate resilient and promote sustainable urbanization and transport corridors. An investment of US$ 250 million from the Bank and US$ 10 million from the Swiss Development Agency (SECO) is implemented across six development sectors to increase the city’s physical, financial and social resilience to adverse events. One of the activities involves combining a transport link and an embankment, which has multiple benefits including reducing water displacement and flooding in the Mekong Delta.climate

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e2C: Technical Assistance to Strengthen Community-Level Capacity to Manage Disaster Risk and Recovery in Afghanistan

Deadline: 27-Nov-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

Objective: In order to increase disaster risk awareness and capacity of communities by afghanistan.gif supporting them in conducting participatory disaster risk mapping and disaster risk reduction activities to inform the design and implementation of community sub-projects under the Citizen Charter Project (CCAP), this consultancy will work with select Community Development Councils (CDCs), created under the National Solidarity Program (NSP), in high risk accessible areas, focusing initially on the North of the country.

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