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Agriculture, Water, and Land Policies to Scale Up Sustainable Agrifood Systems in Georgia : Synthesis Report and Way Forward
World Bank Group - 2022
This Synthesis report summarizes the main constraints and opportunities that Georgia faces in amplifying the contribution of the agriculture sector to the country's economic growth and diversification, employment creation, poverty reduction, food security and nutrition, and climate resilience...
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Water in Circular Economy and Resilience : The Case of Chennai, India
World Bank Group - 2021
Chennai, a city on the southeastern coast of India and the state capital of Tamil Nadu, has one of the world's fastest …-growing economies. Chennai is the automotive hub for India and is also home to several other industries ranging from petrochemicals to … Economy and Resilience (WICER) system. This case study focuses on the experience of Chennai in India …
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Republic of India : Service Level Benchmarking, Citizen Voice and Performance Improvement Strategies in Urban Water Supply and Sanitation
World Bank Group - 2016
Strategies in Urban Water Supply and Sanitation (UWSS) in India. This technical assistance (TA) sought to strengthen …
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Guatemala's Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Poverty Diagnostic : Challenges and Opportunities
World Bank Group - 2018
Poverty rates in Guatemala are among the highest in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Guatemala is now the second poorest country in the region, with only post-earthquake Haiti being poorer. Guatemala is an extreme outlier in the region in terms of chronic malnutrition, and almost half of all...
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Toward Managing Rural Drinking Water Quality in the State of Punjab, India
World Bank Group - 2020
Rural drinking water quality is an emergent issue in the State of Punjab. In response to health concerns related to children being exposed to metals in some regions, and reports of higher incidence of cancers in the state, the department of drinking water supply and sanitation conducted blanket...
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Glass Half Full : Poverty Diagnostic of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Conditions in Tajikistan
World Bank Group - 2017
Located on the western tip of the Himalayas, Tajikistan has abundant fresh water resources in its rivers, lakes, and glaciers. Yet, access to improved drinking water, and to sanitation connected to a functioning sewerage system, are among the most severe and unequally distributed services in the...
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Toward a Universal Measure of What Works on Rural Water Supply : Rural Water Metrics Global Framework
World Bank Group - 2017
One of the most pervasive development issues related to the provision of rural water supply and sanitation services (RWSS) is their lack of sustainability. Assessing and measuring sustainability is a difficult task for which there has not emerged a consensus on which indicators to use. Unlike in...
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Constraints to Sustainable, Efficient, and Resilient Irrigation Systems in Georgia - What is a Possible Way Forward? : Irrigation Sector Policy Note
World Bank Group - 2022
requires the rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage systems and the establishment of institutional organizations that makes … it sustainable. This policy note on the irrigation sector supports the World Bank-led analytical study on Agricultural … April to July 2021, in close collaboration with the main stakeholders of the irrigation sector in Georgia and the services …
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Arab Republic of Egypt - Integrated Irrigation Improvement and Management Project and Farm-Level Irrigation Modernization Project : Project Performance Assessment Report
World Bank Group - 2022
Ratings for the Integrated Irrigation Improvement and Management Project are as follows: Outcome was moderately … moderately satisfactory. Ratings for the Farm-Level Irrigation Modernization Project are as follows: Outcome was moderately … following lessons: (i) In irrigation systems, such as the Nile Delta's, that are organized along a hierarchical canal network …
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User Organizations for Sustainable Water Services.
Subramanian, A.; Jagannathan, N.V.; Meinzen-Dick, R. - World Bank Group - 1997
Water users' organizations are one example of community participation at work in the sectors of irrigation, drinking …
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