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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.
NRPB Market outreach session
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World Water Week 2023
World Water Week 2023 is focused on innovation at a time of unprecedented challenges.
August 20-24, 2023
Online and Stockholm, Sweden
The theme, Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World, invites a rethink of how water is managed, and urges consideration of the ideas, innovations, and governance systems that are needed in an increasingly unstable and water scarce world.
Deliver the future: Catalyzing opportunities for women, children and adolescents
Today’s intertwined crises have brought new challenges for the health of women, children,
and adolescents, particularly those in the hardest to reach communities. The tepid post COVID-19 recovery in developing countries, along with shocks such as climate change, fragility, debt distress, food shortages and energy price increases, are constraining fiscal space and burdening already stretched health systems. This has meant stalled or even the reversal of progress.
NRPB; Market outreach session
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Drones Deliver Medicines to Distant Health Centers in Rural Meghalaya
HIGHLIGHTS
- Supplying inexpensive quality healthcare to hard-to-reach areas has long been a
challenge for Meghalaya. People living in rural areas find it difficult to access health services, especially during the rainy season between June and September. - A new drone service was introduced by the Government of Meghalaya under the World Bank financed Meghalaya Health Systems Development Project, essential injections and medicines are brought over once a week by a drone from Jengjal District Hospital over 100 kilometres away.
- Since 2021, the Meghalya Health Systems Strengthening Project with World Bank support of $40 million has been helping the north-eastern state of Meghalaya strengthen its public health system where access to quality health services remains a challenge, particularly in rural areas. More than 3 million people across all 11 districts of the Meghalaya are expected to benefit from the project.
World Bank Announces New Steps to Add Billions in Financial Capacity
The World Bank is taking bold new steps to increase its lending capacity, a major boost in firepower that will give millions of people a chance to escape poverty and improve their lives. At this critical moment in history, and echoing the calls from the international community, the Bank is doubling down to tackle intertwined challenges – jobs, climate, fragility, and pandemics. These efforts entail decisive action to build a better Bank to achieve a world free of poverty on a livable planet.
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.
Water knows no borders: Transboundary cooperation is key to water security and avoiding conflict
As pressure mounts on the world’s freshwater resources, closer international cooperation is 
needed to manage the world’s shared rivers, aquifers, and lakes. For decades, the World Bank Group has supported programs to foster cooperation over water as part of ensuring water security for all in support of sustainable development and job creation.
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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