The World Bank Board of Directors has approved the Senegal Urban Water and Sanitation Project, worth a total of $70 million and benefiting 590,000 people.
The proposed Project Development Objective (PDO)
is to improve access to water and sanitation services in selected urban areas in a financially sustainable manner. This goal is to be achieved through the following three components:
Original article published on Dutch Government website.
The Netherlands is to take a leading role at the World Bank in tackling severe hunger. Because of the prominent position of Dutch businesses and knowledge institutes in the area of efficient and sustainable food production, the Netherlands has been asked to advise the Bank on food projects in developing countries. Development cooperation minister Lilianne Ploumen will be signing an agreement this Thursday with the World Bank at a summit conference in Rotterdam.
‘Everyone should have access to a sufficient supply of healthy and safe food,’ Ms Ploumen said. ‘The Dutch agriculture and horticulture sector has the know-how to boost crop yields and cut costs, while lightening the burden on the environment. Together with the World Bank, we can deploy our solutions worldwide.’ Much of the partnership will focus on knowledge-sharing by the business community, knowledge institutions, civil society organisations and government. Dutch experts will also be enlisted in an array of projects and the Netherlands will provide training courses and workshops on topics like safe food chains and sustainable farming.
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Original article posted by Reuters.
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The World Bank wants all corporate bidders on bank-funded projects to publicly reveal their true owners as a way of tackling fraud and cronyism in government contracts, a senior official said.
The proposal is part of sweeping reforms to modernize contracting at World Bank for the first time in roughly 50 years, which are due for board consideration next month, Chris Browne, chief procurement officer at the bank, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview on Monday.
“We are very committed to transparency and integrity. We are very keen to take this to the next level,” Browne said.
Original article at http://goo.gl/cag8HE.
Aviation sector receives critical upgrade
PORT VILA, June 3, 2015–The Vanuatu Government today signed a US$59.5 million credit agreement with the World Bank to improve the safety and efficiency of its aviation sector – a critical pillar in Vanuatu’s continued social and economic development, and a key part of its disaster management and recovery activities.
Project website: http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P154149?lang=en
The Dutch firm Dutch Health has delivered four new ambulance boats to Bangladesh.
See the making of these boats!
This delivery is a direct result of the World Bank tender Dutch Health won previously to deliver six boats to Bangladesh:
User and customer of Dutch Heatlh Water Ambulances are very satified with the excellent operations of 6x Rescue Eagle 1 in the remote water rich areas of Bangladesh.
As this are the first of its kind in the country, Dutch Health is developing and adapting its Rescue Eagle 4 for especially Search & Rescue Operations. It will be adapted to the functional requirements of the client and will service in times of flood and evacuations.
It will serve beyond normal patient transport.
See full tender here: #1187437 Latvia Health Infrastructures and Human Resource Maps and Investment Plan
Expression of Interest Deadline: 15-Jun-2015
eConsultant2 website: https://wbgeconsult2.worldbank.org
Tender notification: # 1187437
Assignment Countries:
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