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Annual Meetings: World Bank Events
The World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings are back this year from 
October 9-15, and we hope you’ll join us!
Live from Marrakech, Morocco, the 2023 Meetings focus on what it will take to end poverty on a livable planet. Events will explore the new playbook we need to respond to intertwined global challenges. What solutions have worked on the ground in developing countries? How do we boost jobs, digital infrastructure, and climate action?
Mark your calendar and sign up for email reminders to join our public events online. This is your opportunity to interact with central bankers, ministers, private sector executives, civil society representatives, youth leaders, academics, and others on issues facing our world today. Ask questions to our experts and join the conversation with the hashtag #WBmeetings, as we bring you our events in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
Annual Meeting World Bank Group and IMF
USAID: UPCOMING EVENTS
Localization: The Road Ahead for USAID’s Localization Efforts
On August 17, join the Society for International Development (SID-US) for a discussion of progress made to date in USAID’s localization efforts and actions that would further advance localization. Speakers will address success stories of developing sustainable solutions that benefit communities and share insights on strategies for centering localization efforts in local communities. Register here.
How to Work with USAID 101
On August 29, join USAID’s Industry Liaison Team at 10:30 a.m. ET on LinkedIn for an audio event. We will share tips and resources that will help your organization partner with the Agency — such as how to find funding opportunities, requirements to be a USAID partner and more! Details for the event are available here.
USAID and Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Strategy Update
On September 5, join AidKonekt and USAID for an update on USAID’s Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Strategy. Panelists will dive into how localization and the A&A strategy affects democracy, human rights, and governance. Register here.
USAID’s Local Capacity Strengthening Policy Learning and Feedback Forum
We are excited to invite you to the Local Capacity Strengthening Policy Learning and Feedback Forum, taking place virtually over six days between October 10 and October 19. Local actors, global stakeholders, and USAID staff are invited to share ideas and help guide future policy implementation. There will be sector-specific sessions such as Education; Global Health; Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance; and Resilience and Food Security as well as opportunities to share candid feedback during local listening sessions. Check out the schedule and register today.
Indigenous Youth on Cultural Identity and a Livable Planet
This year, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples recognizes the efforts of Indigenous Youth to support sustainable development, along with their pursuit of justice and preservation of their culture and traditions. The World Bank interviewed Indigenous Youth leaders from Africa, Asia, and Latin America to hear their stories and deepen our understanding of their strategies. While each have experienced unique circumstances, they face similar challenges that put at risk their capacity to sustain their peoples’ significant contributions to conserving the world’s rich cultural and biological diversity.
We are still unprepared for the next pandemic. But we can fix this.
We live in a world where the risks of pandemics – particularly with zoonotic origins – are
growing, driven by climate change, deforestation, changing land use patterns, food systems, water shortages, and urbanization. As the WHO has warned, the question is not if there will be another pandemic, it’s when.
The Hidden Wealth of Nations: Groundwater’s Critical Role in a Changing Climate
STORY HIGHLIGHTS 
- As “nature’s insurance,” groundwater protects food security, reduces poverty, and boosts resilient economic growth, but the resource is threatened by overexploitation and pollution.
- High-level political action is needed to prioritize groundwater and align the private and social costs of its use.
- A new World Bank report considers the economic value of groundwater, the costs of misusing it, and the opportunities to leverage it more effectively.
USAID’s First Localization Progress Report: Four Highlights
Sarah Rose is USAID’s Senior Advisor for Localization.
In November 2021, Administrator Samantha Power set forth in a speech, “A New Vision for Global Development,” two ambitious goals for supporting locally led development. First, by the end of FY 2025, USAID will channel 25 percent of its funding directly to local partners. And second, by 2030, at least 50 percent of USAID programs will create space for local actors to exercise leadership over priority setting, activity design, implementation, and defining and measuring results.
World Bank Group Intensifies Focus on Private Sector, Launches Effort to Scale Investment in Emerging Markets
PARIS, June 22, 2023—The World Bank Group today launched the Private Sector Investment Lab, a concrete step in a broader effort to develop, and rapidly scale, solutions that address the barriers preventing private sector investment in emerging markets.
Pricing emissions from shipping: Where should the money go?
The backbone of worldwide trade, international shipping moves more than 80 percent of
global trade by volume. As a result, international shipping accounts about three percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Unless shipping moves to zero-carbon fuels and innovative technologies to green its energy footprint, the latest estimates suggest that carbon emissions will grow by 90-130 percent by 2050, as compared to 2008 levels.
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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