Why the World Bank is adding new ways to measure poverty

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The 2018 Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report shows how poverty is changing and World Bank buildingintroduces improved ways to monitor our progress toward ending it.

The landscape of extreme poverty is now split in two. While most of the world has seen extreme poverty fall to below 3 percent of the population, Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing extreme poverty rates affecting more than 40 percent of people. The lamentable distinction of being home to the most people living in extreme poverty has shifted, or will soon shift, from India to Nigeria, symbolizing the increased concentration of poverty in Africa.

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eC2: Madagascar Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan

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Deadline: 31-Oct-2018 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) Ethiopia-Road-Construction

The objective of the proposed study
The objective of the activity is to support the Ministry of Transport in the definition and the adoption of a Multidimensional Road safety strategy that is consistent with international standards and best practices. This will include a plan of action for the implementation of the strategy. The proposed activity will provide the necessary framework to arrest the road fatality rise and to reduce the economic costs of accidents in Madagascar.

Scope of Services
The Services to be provided by the Consultant would primarily focus on the Road Safety activity

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eC2: POLLUTION MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

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Deadline: 07-Nov-2018 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) photo-power-plant

The objective of the technical services is to strengthen the capacity of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) in terms of identifying the sources of particulate matter air pollution, and the steps necessary leading up to that. The program is foreseen to be a two-year initiative (FY2019-20). The following three activities will be implemented sequentially.

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eC2:Technical Assistance for the Requirement Specification and Design for Implementation of Pakistan National Single Window

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Deadline: 30-Oct-2018 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)trade-LPI-fishing-ship-container-docker

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is seeking to engage a consultancy firm (the Consultant) to assist with the development of a Project Design Document for Implementation of the PNSW (the Services).
The objective of this consulting assignment is to complete the preparatory work for the establishment and operation of the PNSW based on the existing GOPs decisions and policy and following the recommendations made in the Blueprint and other products (Risk Management, Business Process Analysis, Port Community System) and consolidate them into an actionable Implementation Plan.
The Implementation Plan will form part of the final deliverable of this project, the full Project Design Document (PDD).

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World Bank Announces $1bn Assistance for Indonesia Natural Disaster Recovery and Preparedness

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NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia, October 14, 2018—The World Bank has announced imagesfunding of up to $1 billion for the Government of Indonesia to supplement relief and reconstruction efforts in the disaster-affected areas of Lombok and Sulawesi, and to bolster long-term resilience.

The funding will be available on request by the Government. It would be guided by a US$5 million grant for technical assistance for detailed planning to ensure reconstruction is resilient and community-led.

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eC2: Building Capacity for resilient urban development and integrating disaster risk data into urban spatial planning

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Deadline:  31-Oct-2018 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) Urban Latin America

Within the context of the TA, the consultancy aims to contribute to increased climate and disaster resilience in selected cities in Cameroon through building capacity of academia, professionals, and institutions to plan for resilient urban development and facilitating the integration of risk information and resilient concepts into urban spatial planning.

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Investing in People: The Time is Now

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Global economic growth is continuing, but with intensified risks that include policy investing-in-people-the-time.jpguncertainty, geopolitical developments, a gradual tightening of financing conditions, and a rise in debt levels and currency volatility. The World Bank Group is helping member countries address these challenges, through a combination of financial assistance and policy advice to promote robust and inclusive economic growth, reduce risks, and foster competitiveness, while strengthening fiscal sustainability and financial resilience.

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eC2: Invest Ghana program – Agribusiness opportunities in Ghana

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Deadline:  22-Oct-2018 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)agriculture-youth

In Ghana, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, recently begun an Invest Ghana: Agribusiness Competitiveness advisory project, with an objective to create new markets for private investment in the agribusiness sector in Ghana. The project is under the umbrella of the Invest West Africa program, a regional initiative financed by USAID, and implemented by IFC. The project aims to mobilize new private investment in the agribusiness sector, and stimulate targeted regulatory reforms linked to private sector participation. In this context, IFC is seeking to recruit a consulting firm to assist the project team to identify the most promising competitive agribusiness opportunities in Ghana, selected based on a robust assessment of market opportunities and competitive advantages across key value chains. An important aspect of the assignment will be to match the opportunities identified with clearly defined, viable and applicable business models (or business strategies) in the Ghanaian context.

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eC2: National Inventory, Metrics, and Hotspots Assessment of Marine Plastics Debris in Key Indonesian Cities

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Deadline:  20-Oct-2018 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)eu-plastic-regels-2019.jpg

The primary objective of this Consultancy is to strengthen the metrics, monitoring, and knowledge base of marine debris in key Indonesian cities, using robust field sampling and mathematical modelling. The assignment will document the distribution of plastic in the ocean, on the coast and in the nearshore environment generated by key cities around Indonesia that have been identified as having significant waste mismanagement or losses into the marine environment, and building up from a recent rapid hotspot assessment. Embedded in this assignment are specific tasks to customize global methods, sampling protocols and metrics to the Indonesian context. The tasks will also help develop a national inventory and monitoring database. Finally, with more robust, comparable baseline of information, this assignment will help evaluate policy options for solutions at the local, and national scales.

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