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Wanted: Entrepreneurs to help end poverty
Article by Jim Yong Kim
In many developing countries, governments struggle to reach people living in extreme poverty and bring them into the formal economy. But even in the toughest places, a special kind of entrepreneur is doing what governments often can’t.
Jim Kim Live: Rethinking Development Finance
Watch the live stream or follow the event on Twitter with #LSEWorldBank
Date: Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 pm (London) /17:30 – 19:00 GMT/ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET
Location: London School of Economics, London
In a speech ahead of the World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will address the need for a new approach to development finance to meet the aspirations of the world’s 7 billion people and make this generation the first in history to end extreme poverty.
eC2:Water Preparation, Use, and Waste Water Treatment Practices in Food Processing Development of a Tool
Deadline: 27-Apr-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
International Finance Corporation (IFC), through its Advisory Services in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) implements the ECA Energy and Water Solutions for Corporates program. The Program aims to catalyze uptake and increase investments in climate friendly energy and water efficient solutions, so that companies and municipalities in ECA become more productive and competitive. The Program delivers IFC services in energy and resource efficiency area via two components: (1) firm level advisory engagements and (2) market/sector-level activities with groups of firms.
The Program plans to develop a standardized advisory service to assess water efficiency, including water preparation and wastewater treatment, for its food processing clients in the region (the tool).
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eC2: Technical consultants for Fiji hospital PPPs
Deadline: 23-Apr-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
Government of Fiji (GoF) is keen to expand health services and reform operations at two sites i.e. Lautuka & Ba through private participation and has requested IFC for assistance in structuring PPP project/s for the same. Lautoka is the second largest city of Fiji. It is in the west of the island of Viti Levu, 24 kilometres north of Nadi, and is the second port of entry in Fiji. Ba is a town in Fiji, 37 kilometres from Lautoka and 62 kilometres from Nadi. Ba hospital is an under construction hospital as a replacement of the existing mission hospital which is not in a condition to be operated as a hospital any more.
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eC2: Expansion of the Master degree program in Educational Measurement and Evaluation
Deadline: 08-May-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
Specific objectives of the assignment are:
1.Identification of the partner university in one ECA country and adjustment of the existing Masters degree program training materials to national legislation and specific requirements (Phase 1).
2.Launch of the Masters degree program branch in identified university in one of ECA countries (Phase 2).
3.Further implementation of the Masters degree program branch in the identified university in the ECA country (Phase 3).
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Are girls smarter than boys?
Parents are 2.5 times more likely to google “Is my son gifted?” than “Is my daughter 
gifted?” A gap like this—in perceptions and expectations—is not new. Myths about ‘gendered’ learning gaps have persisted since at least the Victorian era. Could these be true?
Well-Designed Early Childhood Development Programs Can Pay Big Dividends
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- 250 million children under the age of five suffer from stunting and extreme poverty.
- The rate of return on investing in a package of nutrition interventions at scale is estimated at 17 percent.
- Well-designed early childhood development programs include a focus on quality, complementarities between interventions, and behavioral change.
Mapping and Valuing Ecosystems Services, and Prioritizing Investments in Select Watersheds in Nepal and Pakistan to support Sustainable Hydropower
Deadline: 20-Apr-2017 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
To help Nepal and Pakistan promote smart hydropower development through catchment area management in support of countries green growth strategies, the World Bank is initiating an activity whose main components are to: (i) create awareness and influence among policymakers across energy, water resources, and forestry ministries on the role of catchment area management and PES schemes in promoting sustainable hydropower and as a source of green and inclusive growth; (ii) generating know-how on how integrated catchment area management can promote smart hydropower development and green inclusive growth through (a) the application of ecosystem services-based modeling tools to map and value ecosystem services and to develop cost-effective catchment area management plans in selected catchments; and (iii) strengthen capacity of technical officers to apply catchment area management tools.
Meeting Indonesia’s Urban Sanitation Needs
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Indonesia’s rapid urbanization brings challenges to meeting sanitation needs of the urban population.
- Access to improved sanitation facilities, with human excreta hygienically separated from human contact, has increased but 95% of fecal sludge is not treated and contaminates the environment.
- Indonesia is taking a new approach to meet its target of universal sanitation access by 2019.
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