At these substantial volumes, any improvement in public procurement can potentially contribute to savings, integrity, economic growth, inclusiveness, and sustainability. As governments around the world face massive fiscal pressure and rising inflation, they must ensure productive use of public resources—an efficient, transparent, and accountable public procurement is one way of doing so.
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Challenges Without Borders: Confronting Crises Around the World | The Development Podcast
FEATURING: Axel Van Trotsenburg, the World Bank’s Managing Director of Operations / Honorable John Dabi, Deputy Commissioner of South Sudan Commission for Refugees Affairs / Fidel Saad, Save the Children Lebanon’s Food Security, Livelihoods and Social Protection Technical Advisor / Lara, a Ukrainian refugee.
Challenges Without Borders: Confronting Crises Around the World https://player.captivate.fm/episode/88a3e008-fefb-449f-9560-6856bd505b2f/
Special Edition: Open Call for Cooling Innovators
You can hear first-hand from innovators who’ve already taken part in our program, and you can sign up for webinars to learn more about our three regional initiatives and the application process. We share the latest example of how we help participants raise their global profiles. Plus, we look at the impact of the program, implemented in partnership with the UK government’s Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, in accelerating the adoption of affordable, energy-efficient, and climate-smart cooling solutions where they are needed most.
Please don’t forget, applications for our sustainable cooling open call close on March 19. You can contact us with any questions via techemerge@ifc.org.
Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!
TechEmerge will hold a series of webinars where you can meet program leads, find out more about our new programs in Africa, India, and Latin America’s Andean Region, and discuss the finer details of the application process. Our webinars are offered at two different times, so please choose the one that works best for you and register to join us online.
- 1st Session: Tuesday, March 7 – 3:00 am EST (8:00 am GMT)
- 2nd Session: Tuesday, March 7 – 9:00 am EST (2:00 pm GMT)
Event: USAID Business Forecast and Partner Update Webinar
See note below from USAID
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Dear Partners,
On Tuesday, March 23 at 8:30am ET, we will host our FY 2023 Second Quarter Business Forecast and Partner Update webinar. You can click here to register.
Submitting Business Forecast Questions
In advance of the event, we invite organizations to send questions specifically related to opportunities on the Business Forecast. Please see below instructions for submitting questions:
- You can submit using the following Google Form: USAID Business Forecast Submission Form (You may submit more than one). OR
- Send questions in email using this Excel template to BusinessForecast@usaid.gov.
Please be sure to label each question with the project name as indicated on the Business Forecast, as well as the Country/Mission/Bureau/Operating Unit, as applicable.
Please send all questions to BusinessForecast@usaid.gov by no later than close of business on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
Following the webinar, we will post responses to all of the Business Forecast-related questions on USAID.gov, along with a transcript and recording of the event.
If you have not participated in one of USAID’s Business Forecast calls, you can access previous recordings and transcripts here.
We look forward to answering your questions and speaking with you in a few weeks.
USAID Industry Liaison Team
Special Edition: Open Call for Cooling Innovators
You can hear first-hand from innovators who’ve already taken part in our program, and you can sign up for webinars to learn more about our three regional initiatives and the application process. We share the latest example of how we help participants raise their global profiles. Plus, we look at the impact of the program, implemented in partnership with the UK government’s Department for Energy Security & Net Zero, in accelerating the adoption of affordable, energy-efficient, and climate-smart cooling solutions where they are needed most.
Please don’t forget, applications for our sustainable cooling open call close on March 19. You can contact us with any questions via techemerge@ifc.org.
Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!
TechEmerge will hold a series of webinars where you can meet program leads, find out more about our new programs in Africa, India, and Latin America’s Andean Region, and discuss the finer details of the application process. Our webinars are offered at two different times, so please choose the one that works best for you and register to join us online.
- 1st Session: Tuesday, March 7 – 3:00 am EST (8:00 am GMT)
- 2nd Session: Tuesday, March 7 – 9:00 am EST (2:00 pm GMT)
Rebuilding and Reconstructing a Prosperous Ukraine Will Take a Concerted Effort by the International Community and the Private Sector
It is hard to imagine that a year has passed since Russia invaded Ukraine causing
widespread devastation and suffering in the country and rattling the world economy. As a result of the invasion, With rising numbers of housing units severely damaged, hospitals and schools destroyed, thousands of Ukrainians are spending these tough winter months amid frequent electricity and heating disruptions. I saw this first hand when I visited Ukraine back in November.
Despite the War, Ukraine Continues Providing Necessary Health Services to Patients
Nina, a middle-aged woman from Chernihiv, Ukraine, was experiencing shortness of breath
and could barely walk.
“I would walk two meters and didn’t have the strength anymore. Now, it’s easier to breathe,” says Nina.
Nina’s heart problems were appropriately diagnosed, and she received care at the Chernihiv Oblast Hospital in the fall of 2022.
In wildlife conservation, gender equality brings win-win returns
Environmental degradation, illegal wildlife trade, and human-wildlife conflict undermine
development and pose significant risks to health, climate change adaptation, peace and security. They weaken natural resource management and result in economic losses for communities that rely on wildlife and ecosystems. There are multiple approaches to mitigate these threats, but they are often gender blind when they should be gender equal. Illegal wildlife trade exists in the same gendered social spheres as everyday life. Are male poachers simply meeting livelihood needs, or are they also enacting masculinized expectations?
Collapse & Recovery: How COVID-19 Eroded Human Capital and What to Do About It
COVID-19’s Impact on Young People Risks a Lost Generation
Pandemic Damaged Cognitive Development and Lifetime Earnings of Children and Youth, Jeopardizing the Well-being of Generations and Growth of Economies
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2023 – The COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive collapse in human capital at critical moments in the life cycle, derailing development for millions of children and young people in low- and middle-income countries, according to the first analysis of global data on young people who were under the age of 25 at the onset of the pandemic.
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