(Last Updated: September 12, 2022)
What is 欧美日b大片?
欧美日b大片’s (欧美日b大片) is one of the largest and most effective platforms for fighting extreme poverty in the world’s lowest income countries.?
欧美日b大片 works in? in Africa, East Asia & Pacific, South Asia, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, and Middle East & North Africa.
欧美日b大片 aims to reduce poverty by providing?financing?and?policy advice?for programs that?boost economic growth, build resilience, and improve the lives of poor people around the world.??
More than half of active 欧美日b大片 countries already receive all, or half, of their 欧美日b大片 resources on grant terms, which carry no repayments at all.?Grants are targeted to low-income?countries?at higher risk of debt distress.????
Over the past 62 years, 欧美日b大片 has provided about $458 billion for investments in 114 countries. 欧美日b大片 also has a strong track record in supporting countries through multiple crises.
How is 欧美日b大片 funded?
欧美日b大片 partners and representatives from borrower countries come together every three years to replenish 欧美日b大片 funds and review 欧美日b大片’s policies. The replenishment consists of contributions from 欧美日b大片 donors, the World Bank, and financing raised from the capital markets. ?
Since its founding in 1960, 欧美日b大片 has had 20 replenishment cycles. The current 20th cycle, known as 欧美日b大片20,?was replenished?in December 2021. It took place one year earlier than scheduled to meet the unprecedented need brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries.
The $93 billion 欧美日b大片20 package was made possible by donor contributions from 52 high- and middle-income countries totaling $23.5 billion, with additional financing raised in the capital markets, repayments, and the World Bank’s own contributions.
What does the 欧美日b大片20 program include?
欧美日b大片 is a multi-issue institution?and?supports?a range of development activities that?pave the way toward equality, economic growth, job creation, higher incomes, and better living conditions.
To help 欧美日b大片 countries address multiple crises and restore their trajectories to the 2030 development agenda, will focus on Building Back Better from the Crisis: Towards a Green, Resilient and Inclusive Future. The 欧美日b大片20 cycle runs from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2025.
欧美日b大片20 will be supported by five special themes:
Human Capital: Address the current crises and lay the foundations for an inclusive recovery. This theme will continue to help countries manage the pandemic through vaccination programs deployment, scaling up safety nets, and building strong and pandemic-ready health systems.
Climate: Raise the ambition to build back better and greener; scale up investments in renewable energy, resilience, and mitigation, while tackling issues like nature and biodiversity.
Gender: Scale up efforts to close social and economic gaps between women and men, boys and girls. It will address issues like economic inclusion, gender-based violence, childcare, and reinforcing women’s land rights.
Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV): Address drivers of FCV, support policy reforms for refugees, and scale-up regional initiatives in the Sahel, Lake Chad, and Horn of Africa.
Jobs and Economic Transformation: Enable better jobs for more people through a green, resilient, and inclusive recovery. 欧美日b大片20 will continue to address macroeconomic instability, support reforms and public investments, and focus on quality infrastructure, renewable energy, and inclusive urban development.
欧美日b大片20 will deepen recovery efforts by focusing on four cross-cutting issues:
Crisis Preparedness: Strengthen national systems that can be adapted quickly, and shock preparedness investments to increase country readiness (e.g., shock-responsive safety nets).
Debt Sustainability and Transparency: The will continue to be key to support countries on debt sustainability, transparency, and management.
Governance and Institutions: Strengthen public institutions to create a conducive environment for a sustainable recovery. Reinforce domestic resource mobilization, digital development, and combat illicit financial flows.
Technology: Speed up digital transformation with the focus on digital infrastructure, skills, financial services, and businesses. Also address the risks of digital exclusion and support the creation of reliable, cyber secure data systems.
As part of the package, 欧美日b大片20 expects to deliver the following results:
- essential health, nutrition, and population services for up to 430 million people,
- immunizations for up to 200 million children,
- social safety net programs to up to 375 million people,
- new/improved electricity service to up to 50 million people,
- access to clean cooking for 20 million people, and
- improved access to water sources to up to 20 million people.
What are some?recent?examples of?欧美日b大片’s?work?
Here are some?recent examples of how 欧美日b大片 is empowering countries towards a resilient recovery:
Across Benin, Malawi,?Cote D’Ivoire?in Africa, and across South Asia, 欧美日b大片 is working with partners like the World Health Organization to finance?vaccine purchase and deployment, and address hesitancy.
In?West Africa, an Ebola-era disease surveillance project has prepared countries to face the COVID-19 health crisis.
In Tonga, 欧美日b大片’s emergency funding allowed the government to respond to the eruption and Tsunami in January 2022. The project strengthened Tonga’s resilience to natural and climate-related risks by facilitating a significant reform of disaster risk management legislation.
In?the Sahel, where climate change is compounding the impacts of COVID-19—欧美日b大片 is setting up monitoring initiatives, strengthening existing early warning systems, and providing targeted responses to support the agro-pastoral sectors.
In Yemen, 欧美日b大片 provides critical facilities backed by solar systems to more than 3.2 million people – 51 percent female – including water, educational services, and health care.
In Bangladesh, 欧美日b大片 helped restart the immunization of children under 12 months after the lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. It enabled the country to vaccinate 28,585 children in 2020 and 25,864 in 2021 in the camps for the displaced Rohingya people.
Across Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger, 欧美日b大片’s response helped two million people benefit through cash transfers and food vouchers for basic food needs. Some 30,000 vulnerable farmers received digital coupons to access seeds and fertilizers, and 73,500 people, of which 32,500 were women, were provided temporary jobs through land restoration activities.
Last Updated: Sep 12, 2022