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Climate change safety nets needed for vulnerable countries

Climate change safety nets needed for vulnerable countries By Kevin Watkins As preparations for this year’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, intensify, attention is focused on efforts to prevent a future catastrophe. However, real-time climate catastrophes are already playing out in the lives of millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. What will COP26 offer them? Stick a pin in a map of global humanitarian emergencies and you will most likely land on a crisis that has been caused or aggravated by droughts, floods and storms. In 2019, extreme weather events pushed more than 34 million people into hunger and food insecurity. In the 55 countries with food-insecurity crises, 75 million children under the age of five are chronically undernourished and face higher risks of diarrhea, pneumonia and other potentially fatal diseases that accompany droughts and floods.

Pastoral project in Sahel gets $375 million boost from WB

Pastoral project in Sahel gets $375 million boost from WB Africa - WB - Agriculture March 31, 2021 to 22:50 185 APA - Dakar (Senegal) Pastoralists and agropastoralists in the Sahel will benefit from a 375 million dollar funding, or nearly 210 billion CFA francs, from the World Bank to improve their activities. Efforts to strengthen the productivity and resilience of pastoral systems in the Sahel will benefit from a new $375 million financing from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA). It was approved on Tuesday 30 March by the Board of Executive Directors to support the deployment of phase 2 of the Regional Pastoralism Support Project in the Sahel (PRAPS-2).

WB approves $200m for Bangladesh to help urban youths, migrant workers-541776

WB approves $200m for Bangladesh to help urban youths, migrant workers Sun Online Desk 17th March, 2021 12:52:54 The World Bank has approved $200 million to help Bangladesh provide support and services to the low-income urban youths impacted by the pandemic and the involuntary returnee migrants to improve earning opportunities and resiliency. The Recovery and Advancement of Informal Sector Employment project will help about 175,000 poor urban youth and low-income microentrepreneurs enhance employability and productivity by helping them access services such as life-skills training, apprenticeship programs, counselling, microfinance, and self-employment support, the World Bank said in a statement on Wednesday. The project will provide cash grants, counseling, and referrals to relevant services based on their needs and aspirations to help about 200,000 eligible migrants who had been forced to return since January 2020 either sustainably reintegrate into the domestic labor market or

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