This report consolidates the findings and recommendations from studies on climate resilient road assets in Albania, financed through a grant provided by the Global facility for disaster reduction and recovery (GFDRR).
... Exibir mais + The objective of the work is to assist the Albanian authorities in the prioritization of current and future climate, and seismic resilient investments in the road sector. The work has used climate and seismic vulnerability assessments, and proposed mitigation measures to improve climate and seismic resilience of the Albanian road network. The report finds that the investment in resilience and mitigation measures on the Albanian national road network is cost effective and is much less than the estimated annualised cost of the damage and loss that would accrue if mitigation measures are not put in place and maintained.
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The objective of this report is to analyze the gender norms of Roma and non-Roma men and women in marginalized neighborhoods of Serbia, and assess the impact of these norms on schooling, work, and household decision-making.This report aims to generate and promote the use of evidence on living conditions and human development outcomes among marginalized Roma communities of the Western Balkans and their neighboring non-Roma counterparts and provide evidence-based recommendations for policy and programming.
... Exibir mais + The primary universe for the Regional Roma Survey is: (i) all households in Roma settlements or areas of compact Roma population; and (ii) non-Roma communities living in close proximity to marginalized Roma. The results of the RRS 2017 show that marginalized Roma in Serbia, much like the rest of the Western Balkans, do not have the endowments and assets they need nor the ability to use the assets they have efficiently and intensively to generate economic gains and climb up the socioeconomic ladder. This qualitative report makes three main contributions. First, the gaps between Roma and non-Roma in schools, work places, and household decision making revealed by the RRS 2017 are placed within a structural marginalization or social exclusion framework.Second and most critically, we find a broad range of diversity within the Roma population in Serbia. Unfortunately, Roma are often homogenized in both academic and policy literature.The findings of this report move beyond flattening histories and attributing norms and beliefs to a static and singular “identity” and allegedly common “culture.”Third, the authors find that social norms fluctuate and shift as the wider context shifts – that within Serbia, there is significant variation among the Roma living in three different contexts (urban, post-industrial and agricultural). Using this perspective, they illuminate the mechanisms of change with respect to gender and ethnicity that remain invisible in the RRS 2017 but result in the diverging impacts captured by it.The paper is structured as follows. Section two reviews the literature and current knowledge on marginalized Roma and social exclusion in Serbia, and notes the gaps in the literature. Section three gives a description of the methodology of the study and the sample used for analysis. Section four presents key findings from the study on gender norms in work, schooling, and household decision making. Section five, six, and seven present the three case studies and a detailed overview of the location- and context-specific barriers for Roma versus non-Roma households demonstrating how these three locations – one urban, one post-industrial and one agricultural – offer important insights into the variation in constraints and forms of exclusion of the Roma. Section eight draws on the findings to provide concrete recommendations for policy interventions and concludes.
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Trade and transport bottlenecks were identified as key impediments contributing to high transport costs and poor reliability of supply chains, thereby raising the cost of doing business and ultimately diverting potential investments and jobs from the Western Balkans (WB).
... Exibir mais + Addressing these impediments which include physical bottlenecks as well as non-physical barriers is critical to regional integration and necessitates the implementation of significant improvements on transport corridors. Estimated roughly at about €8,140 million, which is about 5 percent of the total regional GDP for the period 2014-2020, these investment needs constitute a large financial burden on the budget of the governments in the Western Balkan region and therefore require careful planning and prioritization of projects aligned with available financing from national, European Union (EU) and private resources. The countries of the Western Balkans, however, lack adequate monitoring systems needed to assess the performance of the key corridors/routes of the regional transport network, therefore limiting the ability to identify priority projects to upgrade and improve connectivity within the region and to the broader EU area. To address this gap and to improve the performance of trade and transport corridors in the Western Balkans, the World Bank initiated a pilot project (phase one) in 2015 to measure and monitor corridor performance in the region with a focus on automated transport data collection and data integration, and to develop a conceptual design for an ICT-based pilot system. Corridor Vc, which runs north-south through Bosnia and Herzegovina, linking the northern border to the Port of Place in Croatia, was selected as the pilot corridor for measuring and monitoring performance. This report deals with phase two of the project to build on phase one by developing relevant performance metrics, expand system capabilities to develop the prototype for a Corridor Performance Measurement and Monitoring (CPMM) System for Corridor Vc, and to propose a detailed roadmap for rolling out the system to corridors and routes in the rest of the Western Balkans.
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The objective of the Western Balkan investment facility (WBIF) program was to provide analytical and technical assistance support to the WB countries in priority sectors defined by WBIF, to help them make better investment decisions and prepare better quality projects in line with regional and national strategies and priorities.
... Exibir mais + All of the projects have undergone a full cycle of reviews and approvals, the deliverables have been presented and filed, and a separate completion summary has been filed for each of these subtasks.
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The Sava River basin in Southeastern Europe, covers an area of approximately 97,700 square kilometers including large parts of five Sava riparian countries.
... Exibir mais + The objective of the Sava River Basin Project, funded by World Bank was to improve the quality and effectiveness of joint flood and drought management and forecasting capacities in the Sava River basin and consisted of the following two components: 1) Flood risk management plan for the Sava River Basin, including program of measures; and 2) Flood and drought forecasting and warning system for the Sava River Basin. This overview provides an overview of the activities undertaken under the component 2. The main objective of component 2 was to develop and establish an integrated real- time flood forecasting and warning system for the entire Sava River Basin (Sava FFWS), which is jointly operated and maintained by the five Sava riparian countries in close cooperation, coordination and support of the Secretariat of the International Sava River Basin Commission (ISRBC).
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