Category Archives: Events

World Bank Webinar: Recent Global Trends in Infrastructure Project Finance

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Date: September 29, 2015Recent_Global_Trends_PPP
Time: 10:00AM EST
Themes: Public-Private Partnerships
In the first quarter of 2014, many emerging countries were still struggling to mobilize financing flows to infrastructure, although there were key signs of a revival. A year later, some countries and regions appear to have been successful in reviving their PPP markets, others less so. In addition, against the back drop of developments in the project finance market, international financial institutions and bilateral aid organizations discussed the future of financing of infrastructure in Addis Ababa this year. What does the future look like? This webinar looks at the current trends in PPP financing in major regions of the world from lender and MDB perspectives.

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NL4WorldBank Webinar: Cookstoves

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The World Bank Team at the cookstovesNetherlands embassy, in collaboration with the World Bank and RVO, will be organizing a webinar on cookstoves in late September. The purpose of the webinar is to inform Dutch organizations in the field of cookstoves of the medium- to long-term strategy of the World Bank with regards to cookstoves, and to discuss their thinking on the way forward. In turn, Dutch organizations will be able to provide input and advice on best practices and latest developments to ensure that the World Bank is fully up to speed when rolling out new initiatives and projects.

To sign up for this webinar, please send an email to the World Bank Team so we can keep you updated regarding date, time and logistical information. The ultimate aim of this webinar is to create a win-win-win, with improved projects for the World Bank, better opportunities for Dutch organizations to market innovative and state-of-the-art technologies and solutions, and most importantly better development outcomes for borrowing countries. And that is the essence of NL4WorldBank.

17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land & Poverty

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Call for submission of papers.

From March 14 – 18, the World Bank Land-Conference-2016will be organizing the 17th annual Conference on Land & Poverty. With more than 1,000 participants from 125 countries at the 2015 conference, this event has become one of the main venues for showcasing innovation, learning, and debate among high level policy makers, researchers, civil society, and development partners. This year’s conference topic is motivated by the fact that recording of rights to make tenure more secure and improve land use by all, is increasingly within reach as improved technology allows better access to and management of geospatial information, citizen participation, and facilitates transparency. Continue reading →

Symposium: The value of groundwater

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Original announcement for symposium on VVM website. World Bank speaker participating.
Only 100 spots available, so don’t wait!

In the Netherlands we pay on average bottled vs ground€1 per cubic meter of tapwater coming from groundwater. If surface water or infiltrated groundwater comes out of the tap, a few dimes or half a Euro is added. A bottle of water is up to a thousand times more expensive.

Date: September 23, 2015
Location: Nieuwegein, the Netherlands

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WB Event – The Big Push toward Universal Health Coverage: Metrics, Data, and Impact

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Date: October 26, 2015

The developing world—and some parts of the 62049 - IPC-001465developed 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 →

Resilient Supply Chains – A Strategic Dialogue (London, 19 October 2015)

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Resilient Supply Chains – Farmers & Food Industry Tackle the Shared Challenge of Climate Change – A Strategic Dialogue (London, 19 October 2015)

Climate change brings significant, resilient supply chainsconcrete 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 →

IGRAC hosted a World Bank partnership roundtable on groundwater

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Article originally published on the IGRAC website.

Together with NWP (Netherlands IGRACWater 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.

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September 2015 issue of NL4WorldBank newsletter published

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This morning the fifth edition of the NL4WorldBank email campaignnewsletter was published. Those subscribed to the newsletter automatically received it in their inbox. If you did not receive the newsletter, you will find it here.

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WB Event – Should We Just Give People Cash?

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Date: September 29, 2015

Over the past decade or so, we have witnessed an world money smallimpressive growth in the number, volume, and types of social protection programs in developing countries. This successful growth has been accompanied by a shift in focus from the programs’ traditional role of mitigating risk to changing the earnings trajectory of poor households to promote their escape from poverty. Continue reading →