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This note summarizes lessons and practices deployed in embedding climate resilience into the design of projects that received catalytic funds from The Africa Climate Resilience Investment Facility (AFRI-RES). It draws from application of the Resilience Booster Tool to specific projects, as...
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In the last five years, the number of voices calling for stronger international action on climate change and health has … increased, as has the scale and depth of activities. But current global efforts in climate and health are inadequately … opportunities to simultaneously promote better health outcomes and resilience.This paper begins by identifying the health impacts …
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Climate change has been called the most important threat to human health in the 21st century. It is estimated that if … (WorldHealth Organization 2023). Historically, only pandemics or worldwars have posed such threats to human health. As a result …,the issue has aroused unprecedented attention. In 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared climate changethe greatest …
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This report translates the Bank's corporate commitment into increased efforts to control malaria. It lays the basis for … a Booster Program for Malaria Control, through which the Bank will make an important contribution to malaria control in … service organizations, specialized agencies, and financiers of malaria control at all levels. Consistent with the new Global …
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and to enable the World Bank to play its expected role in scaling up and sustaining malaria control interventions to reach … the new ambitious but achievable global goal set by the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, of eliminating malaria as a … major public health problem in Africa by 2015. The Bank has subscribed fully to this agenda, as illustrated by statements …
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-specific interventions, but also exploring costs for a selected number of nutrition-sensitive interventions implemented outside of the health … health, social protection, education, and agriculture sectors. …
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