World Bank teams and UN agencies are building their institutional capacity to improve their environmental and social measures. So far, more than 2,301 technical and consultant engineers have been trained by SFD to manage, implement and monitor environmental and social standards.
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Children in the camp for internally displaced persons located at M poko Airport in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, in 2014. UN Photo/Catianne Tijerina
Children and tents along the runway and livestock running across it: that was what passengers first saw when flying into Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, during the 2013-2017 period. At its peak, as many as 100,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) were living in scrapped planes and squalid conditions in M’poko International Airport, where they had sought refuge from fighting. They couldn’t go home to their old neighborhoods where they would have fallen preys to armed groups. They couldn’t move elsewhere without losing access to water, electricity, and aid. They were stuck. They had to live with no prospects, for years, in scrapped planes.
Yemen: Delivering COVID assets through the project’s chain
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Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project enumerators used personal protective equipment and practiced physical distancing to access data and assess household needs. (Photo Credit: SMEPS - Yemen/ SFD)
One of the key challenges of expanding coverage to new beneficiaries under the
World Bank’s Yemen Emergency Crisis Response Project (YECRP) was accessing data to assess household needs. The project team did this by hiring consultants from the localities being surveyed in order to protect against spreading COVID-19 between different communities.
All of the enumerators used personal protective equipment (PPE) and practiced physical distancing. Their survey was used to raise awareness of COVID-19 among tens of thousands of people. The Social Fund for Development (SFD) hired health advisers and Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) specialists to ensure that the enumerators and beneficiaries were protected. They develop