This time last year, concepts such as “lockdowns,” “mask mandates” and “social distancing” 
were unknown to most of us. Today they are part of our everyday language as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact all aspects of our lives.
Tag Archives: World Bank Group
Investing in women and girls: How governments can drive inclusive recovery
Before COVID-19, many countries were making significant gains in human capital, improving 
health and education outcomes for girls and boys and empowering women to reach their potential. Between 2010 and March 2020, the World Bank’s Human Capital Index 2020 Update found an average increase of five percent in the human capital index across countries.
eC2: RESILIENT HYDROPOWER & DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT IN NEPAL ARUN VALLEY
Deadline: 31-Dec-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The World Bank is currently funding the feasibility study and detailed design of the Upper Arun Project Hydropower Project in eastern Nepal. As part of its due diligence, the Bank team wishes to hire an international consulting firm with a multi disciplinary team to commission a study to consider ways that the policy, institutional and planning framework can incorporate climate change and disaster risk into the hydropower sector in the Arun Valley in Nepal. The study will be funded by trust funds for a fixed lump sum contract. The multi-disciplinary team will consist of experienced international experts in disaster risk management, remote sensing, seismic risk assessment, regional geology, geomorphology, hydrological risks, sediment management, geohazards (including glacial hazards), climate change, community management and disaster risk management capable of undertaking a comprehensive integrated geohazard assessment.
eC2: Smart Grid Infrastructure in Developing Economies: Emerging Experience and Guidance
Deadline: 23-Dec-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)
The World Bank is launching a competitive procurement process to select consultant services for a new assessment and guidance on smart grid infrastructure. The objective of this activity is three-fold: (i) to take stock of the status of existing smart grid infrastructure in the developing world, (ii) to assess the experience of a sample of WBG client countries with smart grid infrastructure deployment and implementation and identify barriers and emerging lessons, (iii) to develop detailed guidance and recommendations on how the World Bank Group may assist clients in the deployment of smart grid infrastructure (both transmission and distribution) to enhance core outcomes and emerging challenges (e.g., improve overall efficiency and quality of service, integrated variable renewable energy and distributed generation).
eC2: Country leadership for change enhancing female leadership
Deadline: 21-Dec-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
Working under the framework of the GFF Country Leadership Development Program, this consultancy is expected to support the GFF Knowledge & Learning Team developing a pilot program to support a change in the narrative of female leadership. This work will entail assessing in country-level needs, focusing on a specific cohort of countries defined by the GFF Secretariat.
The World Bank Group Mounts the Fastest and Largest Health Crisis Response in its History to Save Lives from COVID-19
It’s seven o’clock in the morning in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. Dr. Haba Eveline arrives at 
the COVID-19 Treatment Center. As soon as she enters, she washes her hands before starting her daily shift. A mother of five, she leads the Risk Management Unit which is now open 24/7.
She is one of the frontline health workers helping her country fight the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. “As a doctor, I am a fighter and I am proud to bring my experience to the response against this pandemic,” she said.
We are facing an unprecedented global challenge to protect every country from COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on public health, societies, and 
economies around the world: it could push up to 150 million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021. Countries cannot recover until all their people can live their lives with confidence.
Raising the bar on preventing gender-based violence
Gender-based violence (GBV), including sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEA-SH), 
is an unacceptable violation of human values. The impacts of these actions on survivors and victims are devastating and wide-ranging. They undermine their physical and mental health, security, dignity, quality of life and well-being.
eC2: Evaluation of the Scaling-up Renewable Energy Program in Low-income Countries (SREP) in the Climate Investment Funds
Deadline: 12-Jan-2021 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) 
The purpose of this evaluation is to strengthen current and future programming in SREP and other prospective CIF programs, as well as other global efforts, through the identification of relevant lessons and good practices for advancing low-carbon energy access in low-income countries.
Impact of COVID-19 on households: What do phone surveys tell us?
As COVID-19 (coronavirus) has spread across the world, the World Bank has projected 
extreme poverty to increase for the first time since the Asian crisis in 1998, putting at risk the global goal of reducing extreme poverty to 3% of the world’s population by 2030. The duration and scale of impacts are highly uncertain and expected to vary widely within and across countries and over time, which makes it really important to closely monitor the impacts of the crisis on households and firms for designing policy responses. The World Bank’s high-frequency monitoring phone surveys, which are going on in nearly 100 countries, have sought to fill the information gap that traditional in-person surveys are ill-suited to fill during a pandemic. They are a window into how the pandemic is affecting every aspect of the lives of almost every household in the developing world. A similar initiative of Business Pulse Surveys adds to this picture by tracking the pandemic’s impacts on firms in 51 countries.
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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