The Private Sector Liaisons are proud to present the second (2) of four (4) World Bank procurement 
training webinars.
World Bank troubleshooting procurement webinar provides information about the troubleshooting process for projects tendered by the client countries of the World Bank Group. The presenter is Marghoob Bin Hussein Senior Procurement Specialist.
We encourage you to view the recording of the webinar here: https://1930181.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/1_bbk9429j
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2020—Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been significantly 
impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and is forecast to fall sharply from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020, the first recession in the region over the past 25 years, according to the latest Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s twice-yearly economic update for the region.
“The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the limits of societies and economies across the world, and African countries are likely to be hit particularly hard,” said Hafez Ghanem, World Bank Vice President for Africa. “We are rallying all possible resources to help countries meet people’s immediate health and survival needs while also safeguarding livelihoods and jobs in the longer term – including calling for a standstill on official bilateral debt service payments which would free up funds for strengthening health systems to deal with COVID 19 and save lives, social safety nets to save livelihoods and help workers who lose jobs, support to small and medium enterprises, and food security.”
Deadline: 27-Apr-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
a. Preparation of Blue Economy Roadmaps, including a rapid Blue Economy diagnosis (quantitative) of the contributions of selected productive sectors to the blue economy jobs, GDP, and gender; and Institutional assessment of policy and regulatory frameworks.
b. Assessment of regional marine monitoring and forecasting; and preparation of a OECS Marine Research Agenda and action plan.
With Madagascar’s health system under strain from the COVID-19 pandemic and schools 
shuttered for the foreseeable future, the health, education, and overall well being of the Malagasy people are increasingly at risk. As the pandemic hits more and more countries, the World Bank Group and other organizations like ours are stepping up to provide immediate support to countries in order to quickly get resources to the front lines of fighting this disease.
Corruption is one of the most vexing problems confronting us today: it causes
Notes: Higher values of Control of Corruption variable imply lower corruption. WGI stands for Worldwide Governance Indicators. Year 2018 values are shown. Source: Worldwide Governance Indicators and World Development Indicators
misallocation of resources and holds back investment, innovation, entrepreneurship, growth and productivity. It can have important distributional implications as its effects may fall more heavily on some agents than others.
At the same time, levels of corruption vary across countries, even among ones at roughly the same level of economic development (figure 1). Why is corruption higher in some places than others? Answering this can help identify what leads to corruption. This is an essential first step in designing polices aimed at curbing this undesirable practice.
The March 2020 global poverty update added more than 200 new surveys to PovcalNet,
Table 1. Poverty estimates for reference year 2018, different poverty lines
bringing the total number of surveys to more than 1,900. New poverty estimates for the reference year 2018 are now included for some regions, and the previously published global and regional estimates from 1981 to 2015 have been revised, reflecting data revisions and the availability of new data. More details on the revisions can be found in Atamanov et al. (2020).
Deadline: 20-Apr-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)![medical-appointment-doctor-healthcare-clinic-health-hospital-medicine[7]](https://nl4worldbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/medical-appointment-doctor-healthcare-clinic-health-hospital-medicine7.jpg?w=584)
The World Bank would like to evaluate the impact of the performance-based contracting with the private sector and performance-based financing of the public health facilities on the nutrition outcomes of Nigeria. The findings of the assessment will inform the Government of Nigerias programmatic and financial decisions with respect to performance-based contracting with the private sector and performance-based financing of social sector programs, including in the health and nutrition sector. In support of the assignment objective, the World Bank proposes to hire a firm to develop, test and finalize digital tools that will be used by the World Bank to collect and report longitudinal data for the evaluation of performance-based contracts and performance-based financing in the social sectors in Nigeria.
Deadline: 20-Apr-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The 2030 Water Resources Group (2030 WRG), hosted at The World Bank , promotes multi-stakeholder platforms across 14 countries globally bringing public-private-civil society sector to work together to meet water sector challenges. 2030 WRG is working with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Vietnam Environmental Protection Administration to develop projects related to promoting water treatment, reuse and recycle. This solicitation is intended to invite competent consultants to carry out an assessment of reuse potential and develop a prefeasibility report.
With schools closed around the world as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many 
countries that are seeking to promote and support online learning for students at home are running into challenges.
One easy-to-understand challenge relates to access:
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