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7 reasons for land and property rights to be at the top of the global agenda

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This week, more than 1,500 development professionals from around the world are madagascar-farhatgathering at the World Bank’s annual Land and Poverty Conference, discussing the latest research and innovations in policies and good practice on land governance.

Secure property rights and efficient land registration institutions are a cornerstone of any modern economy. They give confidence to individuals and businesses to invest in land, allow private companies to borrow – using land as a collateral – to expand job opportunities, and enable governments to collect property taxes, which are necessary to finance the provision of infrastructure and services to citizens.

Unfortunately, a mere 30% of the global population has legally registered rights to their land and homes.

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eC2: West Africa Coastal Areas (WACA) Program: Call for innovation to Private Sector Engineering Firms

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Deadline: 15-Apr-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

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Launched by the World Bank in partnership with IFC, the WACA Call for Innovation will try to seek solutions for the six WACA countries to reduce the impacts on down drift coastal erosion of port infrastructures, either by retrofitting existing port infrastructures or by building new ones. The solutions can be both passive (a proper design of ports) or active (with e.g. a sand by-pass system). The solutions must ensure their feasibility in the West Africa coastline context.
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eC2: DATA FOR ROAD INCIDENT VISUALIZATION, EVALUATION, AND REPORTING (DRIVER) ENHANCEMENTS

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Deadline: 18-Apr-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) Ethiopia-Road-Construction

The objective of this contract is to enhance the DRIVER platform by taking feedback from users into account and addressing needs identified by the World Bank.

This work will be undertaken under the grant offered by the Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Partnership, supported by Government of Japan, for the activity Open Source Road Safety Platform, for Philippines, Lao PDR and Vietnam.

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eC2: Core Capacities for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)

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Deadline: 08-Apr-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) Financial Education

The World Bank, under its Early Learning Program, is providing support for strengthening early grade reading under the Early Works Programs. The key objective being to support the capacity building of a work force of competent instructors ready to prepare prospective ECCE teachers. They are expected to prepare teachers who will appreciate and support all domains of child development in a school set-up. The support builds on the achievements of the Revitalizing Education Development in Sierra Leone under which 300 ECCE teachers were trained and follow-up coaching and mentoring is currently ongoing. The grant will support the development of new courses by adding globally recognized content, methodologies, strategies and materials. The program will also support coaching and mentoring for the college instructors to improve their instructional practices. The key objectives of the consultancy are to (i)upgrade course content and (ii) coaching and mentoring of students and staff.

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10 Years of Green Bonds: Creating the Blueprint for Sustainability Across Capital Markets

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The phone call to the World Bank Treasury came out of the blue: in late 2007, a group of imagesSwedish pension funds wanted to invest in projects that help the climate, but they did not know how to find these projects. But they knew where to turn and called on the World Bank to help. Less than a year later, the World Bank issued the first green bond—and with it, created a new way to connect financing from investors to climate projects.

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The World Bank’s Land and Poverty Conference: 20 years on

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In 1999, when a few enthusiasts agreed to meet annually in an effort to base Land-Conference-2017.jpginterventions on land, on solid empirical evidence rather than ideology, few would have expected this effort to have such a lasting impact. Twenty years on, the small gathering has morphed into a conference, bringing together over 1,500 participants from governments, academics, civil society and the private sector to discuss the latest research and innovations in policies and good practice on land governance around the world.

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Trees and forests are key to fighting climate change and poverty. So are women

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According to IUCN’s ‘Global Forest Watch’, from 2001 to 2017, 337 million hectares of liberia_market_womantropical tree cover was lost globally – an area the size of India.

So, we appear to be losing the battle, if not the war, against tropical deforestation, and missing a key opportunity to tackle climate change (if tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank 3rd in emissions) and reduce poverty. A key question, then, is what can forest sector investors, governments and other actors do differently to reverse these alarming trends?

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eC2: Study to determine pro-poor urban transport interventions in Greater Monrovia

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Deadline: 02-Apr-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)

KUTEI (Kabul Urban Transport Effciency Improvment)

The main objective of this study is to carry out a study of supply and demand of urban transport in Monrovia, develop urban accessibility analysis, identify priority investments to meet the growing mobility demand (with a focus in poor population and vulnerable groups) and develop the concept and estimated budget for priority interventions. The study will also assess ways to enhance private sector participation in the provision of bus services. The study comprises the following activities: (i) Diagnostic of Greater Monrovias current urban mobility supply and estimation of future transport demand; (ii) Accessibility analysis to social and economic opportunities; (iii) Demand/Supply analysis; (iv)Identification of priority urban mobility investments; (v) Definition of concept and estimated cost of priority urban mobility investments; and (vi) Identification of private sector opportunities in priority investments.

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eC2: Monitoring and Evaluation of Phase I Universal Health Coverage in Kenya

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Deadline: 28-Mar-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)medical-appointment-doctor-healthcare-clinic-health-hospital-medicine[7]

The purpose of this consultancy is to conduct operational research to evaluate demand, supply, and implementation and institutional factors affecting UHC Phase 1 in the 4 counties selected for the pilot. A fail fast, learn fast approach will be used to promptly identify and address implementation barriers and ensure that the lessons learned are documented to further inform the UHC scale-up and are shared with other counties on time.

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