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World Bank to help Turkey s Organized Industrial Zones become more sustainable
Turkey’s 346 OIZs, across 81 cities, contribute to more than one-third of the country’s exports and employ 2.1 million workers - approximately one-third of total industrial employment in the country. World Bank | Washington DC | Updated: 26-01-2021 10:40 IST | Created: 26-01-2021 10:40 IST
A smaller part of the loan will also be dedicated to enhancing the competitiveness OIZs through investment in innovation and training centres linking OIZs with science and research organizations, and academia. Image Credit: ANI
A new World Bank-funded project will help Organized Industrial Zones (OIZs) in Turkey become more efficient, environmentally sustainable, and competitive. The new, $300 million Organized Industrial Zones Project for Turkey, to be implemented by the Ministry of Industry and Technology (MoIT), will support investments in basic infrastructures - such as new roads, water and gas pipelines, pow
The Ministry of Agriculture on Sunday, January 10, 2021 distributed several assorted agro inputs to farmers in Nimba County as part of COVID 19 response. According to the MoA, this exercise is in direct response from the government to the Ministry of Agriculture to farmers who have been going through constraint during the COVID-19. Mr.…
Photo: Hassan Hirsi and Warsame Gure, World Bank The Recurrent Costs and Reform Financing project has supported day-to-day functioning and financial management systems of key ministries of the federal and subnational governments in Somalia. Specifically, through its three phases, the project has supported the federal dialogue and funded basic services critical for peace building and reconstruction of the fragile state.
Challenge
After more than twenty years of conflict, Somalia is currently on a path of political stabilization and reconstruction. Important milestones include the adoption of the Provisional Constitution in 2012, peaceful presidential elections in 2012 and 2017, and an agreement on a federal political system, including the establishment of Federal Member States (FMS). However, numerous challenges prevail, such as weak government capacity, asymmetric federal structures, security concerns, human capital deficits, and low levels of state legitimacy.
Government’s E-waste project taking shape
The E-waste recycling project, introduced by government, is gradually taking shape and expected to ensure sustainable disposal and proper recycling of e-waste.
The project, being implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), is still in its pilot phase.
It is helping to promote an incentive system that secures the income of people in the informal sector and encouraging them to dispose of their waste in a manner that would earn them money.
The first phase of the project, dubbed: “Recycling and Disposal of Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment in environmentally sound way,” is funded by the German Government through the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) KfW and the Government of Ghana.