Ethiopia’s second agricultural growth 
project, which was adopted by the World Bank Board of Directors on March 31, 2015, has now been signed. The project involves a total of $365 million, of which $350 million is provided by the World Bank.
The development objective of the Second Agricultural Growth Project for Ethiopia is to increase agricultural productivity and commercialization of small holder farmers targeted by the project. The project comprises of five components: Continue reading
Date: October 26, 2015
The developing world—and some parts of the 
developed world too, including the United States—is in the midst of a big push toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). There is, however, confusion about what UHC means and how to measure it. As a result it is unclear how far countries are from reaching UHC, and the degree to which different UHC-inspired reforms have actually helped move countries towards UHC. Continue reading
The World Bank is assisting the Government of Uzbekistan in its effort to scale up energy efficiency investments in industries. Under the technical assistance project Support Development of a National Industrial Energy Management Program, the following activities will be undertaken. 
Expression of Interest Deadline: 17-Sep-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
Resilient Supply Chains – Farmers & Food Industry Tackle the Shared Challenge of Climate Change – A Strategic Dialogue (London, 19 October 2015)
Climate change brings significant, 
concrete and near-term impacts for farmers and food companies’ bottom lines alike. The objective of this strategic dialogue is to bring leaders from both groups together to discuss their shared climate change challenges: Continue reading
As part of the wider Lets Work program in 
Zambia, which aims to support job creation in partnership with the private sector, the World Bank intends to contract a consultancy to carry out a series of jobs-focused value chain studies in Zambia. This program will be managed by the Lets Work Program through the Jobs CCSA. Lets Work is a global partnership dedicated to providing effective solutions to the jobs challenge by harnessing the private sectors role in creating more, better jobs that are inclusive.
Expression of Interest Deadline: 21-Sep-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The objective of the assignment is to identify interventions needed to strengthen the institutional structure/systems/processes of EPDCL to address the existing challenges as 
well as the emerging needs of the business given the rapid growth expected in the power sector in coming years to meet the PFA objective; and to prepare an IT Implementation Roadmap to guide the Discom to move towards smart grid enabled systems.
Expression of Interest Deadline: 17-Sep-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
Original article posted in the Volkskrant on September 2, 2015
Taxpayers’ money spent well
Useless waste of money, is more and
more often the verdict about development aid. To the contrary, is the conclusion after the largest evaluation ever: development organizations are effective and efficient.
Remainder of article in Dutch. Continue reading
Article originally published on the IGRAC website.
Together with NWP (Netherlands 
Water Partnership) IGRAC organised a ‘Roundtable on Netherlands Groundwater Expertise in Integrated Delta Management’. Mr. Junaid Ahmad, Senior Director Water at The World Bank, met representatives of Dutch groundwater sector to hear about groundwater management practice in the Netherlands and to explore possibilities to implement related knowledge into World Bank operations.
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), the WBG, and the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) are wor
king together to build regional government capacity in the field of infrastructure PPPs with the long-term goal being to create a Regional support mechanism that will promote high rates of growth and reduce poverty by enabling substantial PPP investments in infrastructure and service delivery.
Expression of Interest Deadline: 08-Sep-2015 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
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