Investments Archives - Page 16 of 16

2014 19 December

Bangladesh loan for $1.1 billion is approved by the World Bank

On 16th December 2014, the office of the World Bank Executive Board approved a loan amounting to $1.1 billion for three projects in Bangladesh. The fund has the potential to benefit almost 36m people by improving the quality of primary education, building coastal communities’ resilience to natural...

2014 17 November

SUN Donor Network members announce spending on nutrition

Thuy | Global initiatives Investments Multi-stakeholder planning Nutrition commitments SUN Donor Network 0

With the launch of the 2014 SUN Progress Report, the SUN Donor Network has contributed a feature on resource tracking. This builds on a common methodology for tracking financial investments in nutrition which was approved by the SUN Senior Officials Group in December 2013. View the Progress Report...

2014 07 November

Benin hosts a workshop for SUN countries on financing nutrition interventions

Thuy | Investments Multi-stakeholder planning SUN Country Network 1

A regional workshop of tools related to financing nutrition interventions took place in Cotonou (Benin) from 28 to 31 October 2014. The workshop reviewed ownership of tools across costing, financial tracking and participatory local impact monitoring of nutrition interventions. The workshop was organized by the Government...

2014 29 September

The Government of Gambia launches a results based financing project with the World Bank

Thuy | Investments Multi-stakeholder planning SUN Donor Network, SUN Lead Group and Secretariat 0

On 17 September 2014, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare launched a US$8.7 million grant from the World Bank to implement a 5-year results based financing project called the “Maternal and Child Nutrition and Health Results Project”. The project is being facilitated by the...

2014 25 August

SUN Networks and technical agencies meet and collectively build knowledge on costing and financial tracking

Thuy | Investments Multi-stakeholder planning Nutrition commitments Uncategorized 0

On the 16 July 2014, a conference call was organized among participants from the SUN global Networks and from specialized technical agencies to follow-up on the Nairobi Workshop on Costing and Financial Tracking held in November 2013. The agenda included stock-taking of national-level costing exercises as well...

2014 25 August

Tanzania develops the first public expenditure review for nutrition

Thuy | Capacity building Community Investments Multi-stakeholder planning Research SUN Country Network, SUN Lead Group and Secretariat 1

In the first half of 2014, the Government of Tanzania, with the technical and financial support of UNICEF, Irish Aid and the World Bank, has led the execution of the first ever Public Expenditure Review (PER) for nutrition to address the lack of data on...

2013 23 March

Undernutrition costs Tajikistan US$41 million annually

Thuy | Advocacy Investments Multi-stakeholder planning Nutrition commitments Research SUN Country Network, SUN Donor Network, SUN UN Network 0

In February 2012, the World Bank and The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) jointly developed a report to calculate the potential human and economic benefits to be gained from increasing nutrition investments in Tajikistan. This report provides compelling evidence of the potential to improve health and...

Investments