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Event Date: November 22nd, 2016, 10:00 – 11:00 EST
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A New Plan to Support Action on Climate Change in the Arab World
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- The Middle East and North Africa region is already suffering the consequences of climate change, and will be hit especially hard by the ongoing rise in global temperatures.
- Countries in the region are aware of their vulnerabilities and have begun taking action to confront the impacts of climate change, but the challenges are enormous.
- The World Bank Group has launched a new plan for the region that will increase the portion of financing dedicated to climate action, provide more support for adaptation and focus on protecting the poorest that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa’s Infrastructure: The Roads and Bridges Sector
Africa’s future depends on its roads:
- An adequate and reliable road network will be key to Africa’s economic and social development. Good-quality road connections can greatly expand access to jobs, markets, schools, and hospitals. For rural communities, in particular, a road is often an essential lifeline that links isolated villages to economic opportunities and services.
- The low density and poor condition of the existing road infrastructure are a serious impediment to the region’s growth. Currently, only 1/3 of rural inhabitants live within two kilometers of an all-season road–the lowest accessibility in the developing world. Moreover, insufficient funding of routine maintenance accelerates the deterioration of the network, leaving many roads in poor condition.
- As part of a broader effort to expand and upgrade its transport network, Africa will see substantial investment in road infrastructure over the next decades. When combining both regional initiatives and country-level masterplans, capital investment in the road sector will average about $4.6 billion a year, for a total of $78 billion through 2030.
eC2: Design of strategies to create clusters of economic activity around key Eastern Indonesian primary agriculture products
Deadline: 30-Nov-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The objective is to assess how logistical costs and bottlenecks constrain the development 
and performance of high value/value adding agro-food value chains in Eastern Indonesia and recommend reforms, investments, capacity building and other measures to increase the competitiveness of those value chains, increase production and finally improve the associated livelihoods in otherwise lagging regions. It is to a large extent about creating sufficient volumes for logistics to work with a focus on short and medium term actions that need to be undertaken to reduce logistics costs for selected products in reaching domestic and/or international markets and stimulate increased production. Continue reading
Breaking the Link Between Extreme Weather and Extreme Poverty
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Because natural disasters tighten poverty’s grip on communities worldwide, disaster risk reduction goes hand in hand with poverty reduction, and vice versa
- A new World Bank report finds the impact of extreme weather on poverty is more devastating than previously understood, responsible for annual consumption losses of $520 billion and pushing 26 million people into poverty every year
- Targeted resilience-building interventions protect poor people from adverse weather events and can help countries and communities save $100 billion a year
eC2: Future of urban mobility in India
Deadline: 30-Nov-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The study would include Building the case around Smart interventions in the urban transport sector through use of electric vehicles (public buses as well as two-three wheelers). Along with Eco Cities team, Engaging with key stakeholders including urban transport agencies in the cities, manufacturers, technology providers, etc in the city with focus on Mumbai (Thane), Bangalore, Chennai etc.
eC2: Technical Guidance on Screening Projects for Implementation as PPPs
Deadline: 21-Nov-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The project consists of the creation of technical guidance/ tool that can be used by Bank teams to provide technical advice to countries on the early screening of projects for implementation as PPPs.
eC2:Indonesia Toll Road PPP Program
Deadline: 06-Dec-2016 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
Support the PPP program of the Road Authority of Indonesia with international best practices to:
1. Analyze the viability screening and appraisal of the BPJTs (Road Authority) planned toll road program. Help the client to analyze the potential of a group of toll road segments of attracting private sector investors, via public-private partnership (PPP) models or other approaches involving commercial financing.
2. Assessment on delivery of the Trans Sumatra by PT Hutama Karya
3. Provide high-level recommendations on how BPJT can improve its capacity to design a viable Indonesia PPP Toll Road program including financing schemes such as dedicated Viability Gap Fund (VGF) and Availability Payment options
5 reasons why big data innovation is critical to address climate resilience
In today’s world of mobile technology, social networks, pervasive satellite and sensor information and machine-to-machine transactions, data is becoming the lifeblood of many economies. Data-informed decision making is more important than ever before. However, the ability to use data in development and decision-making processes has not seen the 
same progress. Relying on data to inform decisions requires that the appropriate tools and analytical methodologies exist in order to use it effectively.
Forests: Stabilizing Climate and Supporting Development
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Over 100 countries included actions related to land-use change and forests in their nationally determined contributions to fight climate change
- Investing in forests has the potential to reduce poverty, drive sustainable development and provide vital local and global environmental services
- The World Bank Group supports forest initiatives in Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique that can help these countries meet their climate and development goals
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