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World Bank

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Contact detailsThe World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433
USA
Phone: +1 (202) 473 1000
Fax: +1 (202) 477 6391
Type of organisationDevelopment organisation (UN)
Organisation's interestDevelopment
LocationUnited States of America
Learning Group member?Yes

Description
The World Bank is made up of two unique development institutions owned by 184 member countries—the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). Each institution plays a different but supportive role in the World Bank’s mission of global poverty reduction and the improvement of living standards. The IBRD focuses on middle income and creditworthy poor countries, while IDA focuses on the poorest countries in the world. Together they provide low-interest loans, interest-free credit and grants to developing countries for education, health, infrastructure, communications and many other purposes.

Projects
1. The objectives of the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project are to: a) maximize the sustainable benefits to riparian communities from using resources within the basin to generate food, employment and income, supply safe water, and sustain a disease-free environment; and b) conserve biodiversity and genetic resources for the benefit of the riparian communities and the global community (Uganda).

2. The main development objectives of the Regional Integrated Silvopastoral Approaches to Ecosystem Management Project in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua is to demonstrate and measure a) the effects the introduction of payment incentives for environmental services to farmers on their adoption of integrated silvopastoral farming systems in degraded pasture lands; and b) the resulting improvements in eco-systems functioning, global environmental benefits, and local socio-economic gains (Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua).

3. The Rural Development Support Project for Madagascar: aims to increase incomes and reduce poverty in rural areas, while preserving the natural resource base.

4. The Agricultural Development Project: aims to reduce rural poverty by improving and increasing agricultural production through a community-based approach in designing and implementing components which directly impact the lives of the poor in the participating provinces and districts (Lao People’s Democratic Republic).

5. The project development objective of the Gansu and Xinjiang Pastoral Development Project for China is to promote sustainable natural resource management by establishing improved livestock production and marketing systems that would increase the income of herders and farmers in the project areas.

6. The objectives of the Natural Resources Management and Rural Poverty Alleviation Project are to improve the management and conservation of Rio Grande do Sul’s natural resources by promoting an integrated strategy involving the adoption of sustainable land management and soil and water conservation practices, and improving the income and living conditions of rural poor communities (Brazil).

7. The development objective of the Agricultural Rehabilitation and Sustainable Land Management Project, is to restore the productive capacity of rural areas, through investments in production and sustainable land management, and through capacity building for producer organizations, and local communities (Burundi).

8. The Lao Environment and Social Project (LENS) for Lao PDR aims to strengthen the management of environmental and social issues associated with the sustainable use of natural resources (Lao People’s Democratic Republic).

9. The development objective of the Ecosystem Restoration of Riparian Forests in Sao Paulo Project is to support long-term, and large-scale restoration of the riparian forests at Cerrado, and the Atlantic Forest biomes, through the development and harmonization of policy, regulatory, economic, and technological tools and mechanisms, while providing opportunities for improved livelihoods, and economic well-being of rural communities (Brazil).

10. The Honduras Forest and Rural Productivity Project aims to increase the economic benefits and environmental services derived from forest ecosystems in selected low income municipalities with high agro- forestry potential within the project area (Honduras).

11. The Sustainable Forestry for Rural Development Project for Laos will assist the Borrower to achieve the sustainable management of production forests to alleviate rural poverty in the Project Provinces by implementing the forest policy reform actions and policies set forth in its Letter of Forest Management Policy (Lao People’s Democratic Republic).

12. PROFOR is a multi-donor partnership formed to pursue a shared goal of enhancing forests’ contribution to poverty reduction, sustainable development and protection of environmental services (www.profor.info).

13. The Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP) is an informal network of development agencies that aims to address key poverty-environment issues within the framework of international efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Geographic coverage
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania

People
Kathy MacKinnon, Lead Biodiversity Specialist
E-mail: kmackinnon@worldbank.org
Tony Whitten
E-mail: twhitten@worldbank.org

Web URL
http://www.worldbank.org/

 

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