Below a list of live webcast events you can follow from afar!
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Future of Food: A Conversation about Shaping a Climate-Smart Food System
- October 08, 2015 ( 17:30 ET / 21:30 GMT ) Continue reading
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European debarment: for punishment or procurement?
From the World Bank Workshop Series
Tuesday, October 20, 4.00 to 5.00 p.m.
Join a special workshop on European public 
procurement law and practice, at which University of Maastricht Professor Sarah Schoenmaekers will discuss European approaches to debarment — how they differ from those in the United States, and how they may point the way forward for punishing corrupt contractors in world procurement markets. Continue reading
Online Annual Meetings: Young Entrepreneurs as Drivers of Sustainable Growth
Date: Thursda
y, October 8, 2015
Time: 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.(Peru) / 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m./19:00-20:30 (GMT) or convert time
Location: Auditorio Los Incas, National Museum, Lima, Peru & Online
Empowering people to become masters of their own destinies – as workers, entrepreneurs or business leaders – is one of the most powerful development tools in the world. Continue reading
World Bank President Jim Kim Video : What Works in Development?
The link provided will take you to a speech given by Jim Kim at the Shared Prosperity event which was held:
The speech, a sweeping, definitive review of what works and what doesn’t in reducing inequality and boosting the incomes of the poorest in developing countries and drawing on evidence of a half-century of work by the World Bank Group can be seen here.
Link: http://live.worldbank.org/sharing-prosperity?cid=ISG_E_WBWeeklyUpdate_NL
AM15 event: Unleashing Private Investment in Renewable Energy
Annual Meeting 2015 event
Date: Friday, October 9, 2015
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Peru) / 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. (ET) / 16:00 – 17:30 (GMT) or convert time
Location: Pachacamac Room, Lima Convention Center, Lima, Peru & Online
Taking action to scale-up private sector investment in clean energy is crucial to ensuring power for growing economies, securing sustainable livelihoods, and addressing climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.
What solutions already exist and what needs to be done to stimulate further private sector investment in renewable energy? Continue reading
Successful NL / WB Clean Cookstove Webinar
Every year over 4 million people, mostly women and children, die due to air pollution caused by unhealthy cookstoves and other heat sources. 
On Tuesday, September 29, your Netherlands Embassy’s NL4WorldBank team, in close cooperation with the World Bank Group, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized the first ever Clean Cookstove Webinar to address this issue.
How it works
Geared towards the Dutch private sector, the webinar offered the participants the chance to pitch their companies’ cookstove or related product to a group of World Bank staff all working on cookstove projects across the world. Continue reading
World Bank Webinar: ‘Unleashing Private Investment in Renewable Energy’
What solutions already exist and what needs to be done to stimulate further private sector investment in renewable energy?
At the 9th of October, a panel of global and regional investors, a renewable energy developer, and a senior government official will discuss how success can be scaled; and explore the specific actions to leverage public energy financing for scaled up private flows. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will open the discussion in a moderated conversation with Norway’s Foreign Minister Mr. Børge Brende.
Successful NL / WB Clean Cookstove Webinar held on September 29
On Tuesday, September 29, your 
NL4WorldBank team at the Netherlands embassy, in close cooperation with the World Bank Group, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, organized the first ever Clean Cookstove Webinar.
You will find the audio recording of the webinar here. The initial clip is a preview – click on ‘download’ to hear the entire recording.
Infrastructure Financing through PPPs in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Date: October 06, 2015
Time: 10:00AM EST
Themes: Public-Private Partnerships
This webinar discusses how PPPs can be a mode for infrastructure financing, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Topics to be covered include:
Today to 2030
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Join the Live Stream October 9
President, Peru: Ollanta Humala
Secretary-General, United Nations : Ban Ki-moon
UK Secretary of State for International Development: Justine Greening
President, World Bank Group: Jim Yong Kim
Managing Director, International Monetary Fun: Christine Lagarde
International Journalist: Femi Oke – Moderator
Date: Friday, October 9, 2015
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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