A month after world leaders met at the UN General Assembly to recommit to financing 
for universal health coverage, the global health community gathers in Berlin for the World Health Summit. Under the patronage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, this year’s summit will focus on universal health coverage and human capital in Africa, the role of the G7 and G20 in global health and how the Global Action Plan can be implemented.
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eC2: Diagnostic studies and advisory services to support Lao PDR to improve solid waste and plastics management
Deadline: 19-Nov-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
A. Diagnostic surveys on plastic waste sources, quantities, types and brands, and impacts
B.Assessment of innovative technologies and private sector solutions for waste and pollution monitoring
C. Survey of product alternatives for top 10 priority plastic item
D. Microeconomic assessment to change waste burning behavior
E.Support development of GOLs National Plastics Management Roadmap
F.Assessment of solid and plastic waste management priorities, investment and policy options and requirements.
eC2: Solid Waste Management Consultant
Deadline: 11-Nov-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The overall scope of work involves providing technical advice and support to the team on municipal solid waste management including policy, regulatory and institutional issues, developing plans and strategies for addressing service delivery and infrastructure issues in sustainable manner, review of technical documents and designs, ToRs for hiring of consultants, bid documents and other outputs, and advising the Bank team regarding the design and engineering aspects of the various infrastructure interventions on solid waste management.
New monitoring methods and tools make development more effective
Informed decision making requires timely and relevant evidence. This holds for national 
decision makers as well as development practitioners. Here at the World Bank, we have been working on creative solutions that lower the cost of project monitoring and create feedback loops. These feedback loops allow decision makers to assess the impact of their actions and to plan course corrections where needed. They also serve as incentive to act, since most decision makers wish to avoid the possibility of their inaction being exposed in future rounds of feedback and data collection. Feedback loops thus improve development outcomes through two pathways: by providing timely and actionable information and by functioning as an accountability mechanism. SWIFT and IBM are two examples of new tools that make this kind of regular feedback affordable.
eC2: Development of national approaches for assessment of hydromorphological status of Surface Water Bodies and of national methodology for identification and designation of Heavily Modified Water Bodies
Deadline: 12-Nov-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The assignment aims at filling the encountered gaps in terms of methodical base, qualitative and quantitative data for hydromorphological quality elements (HMQE), required for the assessment of the ecological status of surface water bodies (SWBs) and potential of Heavily Modified Water Bodies (HMWB) and Artificial Water Bodies (AWBs), in compliance with the WFD and most recent good practices and CIS guidance documents. The procedures are mandatory for achieving the objectives of Directive 2000/60/EC and the obligations of Bulgaria as a MS with respect to the EU water policy. The results have to provide the missing and further develop the existing methodical basis, which should regulate and guide the identification and designation of HMWBs & AWBs, the execution of further field works and monitoring programs, the interpretation of the results for HMQEs and the following assessment of the hydromorphological status of SWBs of category rivers, lakes and transitional waters as supporting the overall ecological status assessment.
Investing in Nutrition Smart Agriculture (NSmartAg) means everybody wins
While in Malange, Angola, we met Florinda Chilumbo, a farmer who has 200 hectares 
planted with fruits and vegetables.These are much-needed food groups in a region where malnutrition is common. But public policies favor the production of less-nutritious maize and soy, so she is thinking of dedicating more land to those crops. Indeed, there are no incentives for investing in Nutrition Smart Agriculture (NSmartAg) in Angola, or much of the rest of the world.
eC2: Agricultural Technology Solutions for IFC Clients in Vietnam
Deadline: 07-Nov-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
As part of its efforts to build its leadership in providing access to Ag tech solutions to smallholder farmers that help improve their overall agricultural production practices and sustainability, the Ag Tech Vietnam project aims to: 1) develop and apply ag tech innovations in up to 3 crops in Vietnam to inform precise farming response resulting in reduced input use and costs; and 2) roll out a commercially viable model for at least 1,200 smallholder farmers usage of Ag Tech services and achieve scale.
eC2: Creating Market Opportunities for Women Small and Medium Enterprises in Bangladesh- Corporate Engagement and Networking
Deadline: 04-Nov-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The objective of the assignment is to initiate the corporate engagement and awareness strategy through facilitating a high level conference to bringing together support organizations, WSMEs, Corporations, financial institutes and policy makers to created awareness and facilitate market opportunities.
eC2: Technical Assistance in Assessment of Extreme Weather and Climatic Risks in the Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of the Marshall Islands
Deadline: 07-Nov-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The objective of the assignment is to initiate the corporate engagement and awareness strategy through facilitating a high level conference to bringing together support organizations, WSMEs, Corporations, financial institutes and policy makers to created awareness and facilitate market opportunities.
The Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian
I have never seen this level of destruction. I was deployed to Haiti after the 2010 
earthquake, New York after Superstorm Sandy, northeast Nigeria after the worst of the Boko Haram insurgency, and to Somalia and Malawi after devastating droughts and floods delivered destruction on a tragic level. But mere walking through the worst hit areas of Abaco in northern Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian provided a glimpse of what total devastation really looks like.
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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