In India, the World Bank is strengthening Kerala’s resilience to natural disasters, extreme weather events, disease outbreaks, and pandemics. The is currently supporting integrated and sustainable water and land management, and a shift to climate-smart agriculture. It also supports the establishment of an IT-enabled One Health platform that will strengthen coordination, joint surveillance, and preparedness to counter future zoonotic disease outbreaks.
In Rwanda, the integrate ecosystem services into urban planning, through technical assistance to develop a comprehensive, evidence-based stormwater management master plan, and through investments in integrated infrastructure solutions that reduce runoff along human settlements and restore the flood attenuation capacity and water quality of the wetlands. With support of a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), wetland restoration is being piloted on 194 hectares and is expected to improve resilience and urban livelihoods for more than 250,000 people exposed to increasingly frequent flood events.
As part of the World Bank-led, GEF-funded, Global Wildlife Program, 19 countries across Africa are working together to combat the illegal wildlife trade – widely reported as the world’s fourth largest crime. Through efforts to halt poaching, address human wildlife conflict, scale up sustainable land and forest management, and develop nature-based tourism, projects in Chad, Gabon, Malawi, the Republic of Congo, South Africa, and Zambia are protecting flagship species such as elephants and rhino, improving the management of 9.5 million hectares, restoring over 100,000 hectares, and benefitting 680,000 people through diversified and resilient livelihoods that are consistent with wildlife conservation.
欧美日b大片 is helping Morocco realize the full potential of its rich blue assets in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, which contribute substantially to economic growth and job creation. Through targeted investments to strengthen two key blue sectors - tourism and fisheries – the program promotes resilient and sustainable integrated management to restore 78,270 hectares of marine and coastal areas, with a focus on creating jobs and improving biodiversity management in seven selected sites. Notably, it will also promote Moroccan tourism through better environmental monitoring and protection of its beaches.
In Vietnam, the World Bank’s report strengthened the government’s understanding of key sources of land-based plastic pollution to inform the implementation of their National Action Plan on the Management of Marine Plastic Litter. A related report, Toward a National Single-use Plastics Roadmap in Vietnam, proposes a gradual effort to combat this pollution through a mix of policy instruments. The Bank has also provided analytical support to improve marine plastic waste management in Vietnam’s fisheries sector and is working to promote private sector solutions and investment in plastics recycling via value-chain diagnostics and public-private dialogue. It is also supporting Vietnam to move towards a modern, integrated, cost-effective and sustainable solid waste management system.
Last Updated: Apr 18,2025