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World Bank to spend up to $2.1 billion to rebuild Nigeria’s northeast

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Article published by Reuters on July 21, 2015.

(Updates with World Bank comment)

By Julia Payne

ABUJA, July 21 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s presidency said on Tuesday the World Bank had pledged to spend up to $2.1 billion to rebuild the northeast of the country that has been devastated by Boko Haram militants.

President Muhammadu Buhari met with representatives of the World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Health Organization during a trip to Washington.

A World Bank spokeswoman said that during the meeting, the bank said the sum of $2.1 billion could be lent to Nigeria from its development agency and that support could also come from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Continue reading →

eConsultant2: Nigeria – Monitoring and Learning, Programmatic Approach to Support Nigeria Pilot Projects

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The selected firm will provide World Bank task teams with a combination expertise and experience in beneficiary feedback collection and analysis, organizational performance management survey design and analysis and in coordinating new knowledge to inform learning internally and externally.

There are two interdependent objectives and tasks that will be fulfilled via the solicitation of the international firm(s). Continue reading →

Nigeria: World Bank Approves US$500 Million to Improve Maternal and Child Health, Achieve the ‘Saving One Million Lives’ Goal

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Article originally posted on the World Bank website.

WASHINGTON, April 23, 2015 – The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$500 million International Development Association (IDA)* credit to significantly improve maternal, child, and nutrition health services for women and children.

Access Project Website here: http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P146583?lang=en. Includes the Project Identification Document.

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Water Quality Testing – Nigeria

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The majority of Port Harcourt residents rely on provision from private boreholes and shallow wells. The water quality from boreholes and shallow wells is not regulated.

The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) supported in 2013/2014 a Water Quality Testing Study. The water quality data collected were from a structured sample of the full range of water sources used in the city: privately constructed boreholes and shallow wells utility sources, utility water received by customers and vended water.

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