The training was divided into two parts: practice and theory. The theoretical part was divided into trainings on four different topics: 1) flora and fauna, 2) first aid, 3) leadership, 4) history and geopolitics.
... See More + The practical part involved five hiking trips where participants walked across the Ibrahim Path and applied what they learned in the theoretical part. This activity requires short-term and long-term evaluation. For the short-term, our team conducted: 1) written questionnaire with all participants to assess motivation and views at the outset; 2) one-on-one interviews; 3) focus group with families; and 4) open group discussion. The long- term evaluation will be conducted in 4-6 months through emails and skype interviews to examine the long-term impact on the participants.
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The attached document includes a program overview of the Nepal Rural Housing Reconstruction Program Multi-Donor Trust Fund, and a summary of its Operations Manual.
... See More + The Rural Housing Reconstruction Program will focus on restoring affected housing in 14 targeted districts while providing technical support to enhance the government’s ability to improve long-term disaster resilience. The program’s overall objective will ensure that houses destroyed in the most affected districts of the country will be rebuilt using earthquake-safer building techniques through grants and technical assistance to eligible households from the Government of Nepal.
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The attached document includes a program overview of the Nepal Rural Housing Reconstruction Program Multi-Donor Trust Fund, and a summary of its Operations Manual.
... See More + The Rural Housing Reconstruction Program will focus on restoring affected housing in 14 targeted districts while providing technical support to enhance the government’s ability to improve long-term disaster resilience. The program’s overall objective will ensure that houses destroyed in the most affected districts of the country will be rebuilt using earthquake-safer building techniques through grants and technical assistance to eligible households from the Government of Nepal.
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The attached document includes a program overview of the Nepal Rural Housing Reconstruction Program Multi-Donor Trust Fund, and a summary of its Operations Manual.
... See More + The Rural Housing Reconstruction Program will focus on restoring affected housing in 14 targeted districts while providing technical support to enhance the government’s ability to improve long-term disaster resilience. The program’s overall objective will ensure that houses destroyed in the most affected districts of the country will be rebuilt using earthquake-safer building techniques through grants and technical assistance to eligible households from the Government of Nepal.
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This toolkit is a hands-on resource for World Bank Group teams and PPD practitioners to provide them with an option for stakeholder mapping and allow them to: a) design dialogue platforms and determine participants at concept stage; b) insert a dialogue element into an ongoing project to address specific implementation issues or midway lags; c) ensure that the right participants are invited given a country’s unique context; d) facilitate those parts of a dialogue which are concerned with deepening the understanding of political economy obstacles to reform processes; e) help bridge the divide between different partners of the dialogue; f) design a strategic reform communications plan; or, g) catalyze reforms by building knowledge and capacity of the right people.
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The introduction of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD ) in participating countries is likely to have a significant impact on the dynamics of conflicts over forest resources, and on land, oil, gas, minerals, and other valuable resources in forested areas.
... See More + The purpose of this guidance note is to help countries strengthen their capacity for grievance resolution in order to respond to contentious issues, complaints, and disputes. This note presents an approach to strengthening in-country capacity for grievance resolution activities to be carried out during the readiness phase.
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This resettlement action plan (RAP) is prepared to avoid and minimize the impoverishment of project affected persons (PAPs) and ensure that they receive appropriate compensation and rehabilitation measures.
... See More + The RAP presents the number of PAPs, size of affected properties, and the income restoration measures to be made for the PAPs, and establishes methodologies for compensation estimate and payment. The construction of the project road will improve the livelihood of the local populations and will contribute to the growth and development of trade and urban centers, improvement of crop and livestock production, and its marketing network. This RAP builds on Ethiopian roads authority (ERA's) resettlement and rehabilitation policy framework, African Development Bank's (AfDB) policy on involuntary resettlement, and World Bank's (WB's) policy on involuntary resettlement. The AfDB and WB policy on involuntary resettlement addresses the need for the treatment of project impacts, which cannot be avoided. The policy objectives are either to avoid or minimize involuntary resettlement; if carried out to execute as sustainable development program and to provide assistance to displaced persons so that they can be able to restore or improve their livelihood.
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The First Phase of the Dasu Hydropower Project (DHP) for Pakistan seeks to modernize and expand the energy sector of the country, while shifting from thermal generated electricity to low cost and high reward, clean generation of hydropower.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures includes: a) ensure that displaced persons without titles to land or any recognizable legal rights to land are eligible for resettlement assistance and compensation for loss of non-land assets; b) develop procedures in a transparent, consistent, and equitable manner if land acquisition is through negotiated settlement to ensure that those people who enter into negotiated settlements will maintain the same or better income and livelihood status; c) improve the standards of living of the displaced poor and other vulnerable groups, including women, to at least national minimum standards. In rural areas provide them with legal and affordable access to land and resources, and in urban areas provide them with appropriate income sources and legal and affordable access to adequate housing; d) pay compensation and provide other resettlement entitlements before physical or economic displacement; and e) monitor and assess resettlement outcomes, their impacts on the standards of living of displaced persons, and whether the objectives of the resettlement plan have been achieved by taking into account the baseline conditions and the results of resettlement monitoring. Disclose monitoring reports.
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The development objective of the Second European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) Forest Law Enforcement and Governance Project for Caucasus is to support Georgia and Armenia in strengthening forest governance through improving implementation of relevant international processes, enhancing forest policy, legislation and institutional arrangements, and developing, testing, and evaluating sustainable forest management models at the local level on a pilot basis for future replication.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) supporting development and implementation of forest-based tourism; (2) supporting income generating activities based on non-timber forest products; and (3) preparing recommendations for pilot activities for sustainable use of sawdust in Georgia to reduce pressure on timber forest resources (firewood as well as construction materials); and other projects in selected communities.
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Access to mobile communications has been linked with economic growth and the industry itself boosts local economies by creating high-value direct and indirect jobs.
... See More + As part of its mobile innovation program, infoDev developed the concept of the mobile innovation roadshow with the overall objective to stimulate the development of an innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem for mobile applications enterprises by introducing business and technical concepts relevant to startups in the mobile industry via a series of short events. The roadshow was developed in partnership between the Southern Africa innovation support (SAIS) program and infoDev. The objective of this practical guide is to provide a tool for interested parties on how to plan, organize, implement, and evaluate a mobile innovation roadshow. The guide presents a generic methodology that can be used in any country context. It provides lessons and best practices based on the experiences of implementing mobile innovation roadshows in four countries in Southern Africa: Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, and Zambia.
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The development objective of the Regional Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project for Africa is to increase the supply of electricity to the national grids of Rwanda, Tanzania, and Burundi.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) to assess, confirm, and value assets identified in the resettlement action plan (RAP) related to land acquisition for the construction of the power plant and confirm the compensation cost of each affected household in accordance to the legal procedures of the government of Rwanda and provisions of the World Bank’s policy on involuntary resettlement (OP 4.12), as articulated in the RAP; (2) to set up and sign compensation agreements between PAP and the project as witnessed by the resettlement committee members; (3) to confirm the number of vulnerable households as noted in the RAP as well as define any further assistance these households may need to ensure their full participation in the implementation of the RAP; (4) to confirm households which qualify for livelihood restoration program so as to enable planning of the same at the district level; and (5) the total cash compensation for all affected assets is valued at five hundred sixty two millions, three hundred seventy two thousand, eight hundred sixty seven Rwanda Francs (562,372,867 Rwf), equivalent to eight hundred thirty three thousand, one hundred forty five United States of American dollars ($ US 833,145).
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