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USAID Acquisition and Assistance Strategy Launch

 

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We are happy to announce the launch of USAID’s refreshed Acquisition and Assistance (A&A) Strategy. This strategy provides our vision and approach for how we will collaborate across the Agency, with our partners, and with the communities we serve to achieve better development results. 

USAID will pursue the following vision and objectives laid out in the A&A Strategy: 

VISION: USAID and its partners enable sustainable, inclusive, and locally led development results through acquisition and assistance. 

Objective 1: A&A workforce enabled, equipped, and empowered to further USAID’s development and humanitarian mission.

Objective 2: Streamlined and effective A&A integrated throughout the Agency’s development approach.

Objective 3: A more diverse set of partners engaged to implement locally led development solutions.

You can view the entire A&A Strategy here.

Unlocking Clean Cooking Pathways : A Practitioner’s Keys to Progress (English)

Provision of clean cooking for all is recognized as a critical cross-sectoral development issue. The potential societal benefits are enormous, particularly for public health, women’s productivity and empowerment, and the environment. Along with electrification, clean cooking is an essential component to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 7.1 – ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services. However, the stark reality is that progress on clean cooking access has been stymied by past perceptions of the sector as orphaned, invisible, and expensive. Recent developments have opened a window of opportunity for driving scale. The World Bank’s Clean Cooking Fund, the largest dedicated fund for galvanizing political commitment, scaling up public and private investment, and catalyzing innovation is using innovative Results-Based Financing (RBF) designs and applications to promote long-term market development and advance access for all. Lessons and success stories from the World Bank’s recent operational experience in the sector show how making access to clean cooking a political priority, using people-centered approaches, can drive large development impacts for society. To unlock a country’s clean cooking pathways, stakeholders must carefully consider its overall enabling environment, including its institutional capacity to implement transformative solutions. In countries with a high access deficit, addressing the cooking poverty issue will initially require modernizing the biomass fuel sector and promoting integrated, cost-effective approaches. How does one make the case for clean cooking in countries with a high access deficit? What are the guiding principles for developing a clean cooking strategy? What building blocks are necessary to promote market development for long-term sustainability? This report attempts to answer these and other key questions.
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Global Vendor Forum for Women-Owned Businesses: Accessing Consulting Opportunities at the WBG -March 22, 2023

Are you a women-owned business interested in doing business with the WBG? Join theWBE-Forum-postcard-web-780x439-1 World Bank Group Corporate Procurement unit for an engaging presentation on how to access corporate procurement opportunities.

EVENT DETAILS

  • Registration: Registration for this event is required and participation is free.
  • Language: The language of the event will be English.
  • CONTACT: Corporate Procurement 
  • corporateprocurement@worldbank.org

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The World Bank Group and International Women’s Day

Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, I want to share an update on the Worldjericho_wb_ahed_izhiman5_banner.jpg Bank Group’s work on gender.

Addressing critical gender gaps, including female labor force participation, offers an opportunity to boost incomes and stimulate growth. Research from the World Bank has repeatedly made clear that accelerating gender equality can generate significant economic gains.

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For women and girls in Benin, multi-faceted gender reforms offer new opportunities

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  • A new law expands the definition of gender-based violence (GBV) and increases or institutes punishments to tackle the scourge of GBV.
  • An overhaul of health regulations improves women’s access to reproductive health, including contraception, particularly for youth in youth-friendly facilities.
  • The World Bank is supporting Benin through a multi-faceted program to improve the lives of women and girls.

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Global Vendor Forum for Women-Owned Businesses: Accessing Consulting Opportunities at the WBG -March 22, 2023

Are you a women-owned business interested in doing business with the WBG? Join theWBE-Forum-postcard-web-780x439-1 World Bank Group Corporate Procurement unit for an engaging presentation on how to access corporate procurement opportunities.

EVENT DETAILS

  • Registration: Registration for this event is required and participation is free.
  • Language: The language of the event will be English.
  • CONTACT: Corporate Procurement 
  • corporateprocurement@worldbank.org
Register Now
 

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International Women’s Day 2023: Accelerating Equality and Empowerment

On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2023, we at the World Bank Group willWB-HD-Womans-Day-Collage-1920x1080 celebrate women’s achievements and contributions with a series of events and engagements – we look forward to your participation!

The UN theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”.  This theme is aligned with the priority theme for the upcoming 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-67), “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”.  

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