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confirms that the coefficient for electricity access is negative using the treatment distance 20 km. However, with a treatment distance of 10 km, the effect is marginally positive and insignificant. If we use a treatment distance of 50 km, we no longer see a significant effect. In panel Ab, the results are replicated using a spatial lag model, meaning that we allow for nonlinear effects with distance. In reality, it seems like the electricity rate is much higher before a mine (dashed line) than with an active mine (the blue line). However, when the results are decomposed by migrant status in panel Ac of figure A1 (Annex) we find that migrants are driving the lower electricity rate. In fact, among nonmigrants, the electricity rate is higher 0–10 km from an active mine, although it is slightly lower 10–20 km away. [14] **6.3 Distributional effects on wealth and inequality** Table 9 presents the effects of mining on asset wealth and on asset wealth inequality. Wealth data are available in the form of a wealth index, but only for the two last DHS surveys. Following Fenske (2015) and Flatø and Kotsadam (2014), we calculate inequality by means of a Gini coefficient (recoding
regions. However, all regions (particularly AFR and LCR) include countries that have no lending, despite significant environmental problems. **Figure 5.2: World Bank Environmental Lending by Region** **vs. Overall Environmental Problems (Log Scale)** The number of such zero-lending cases suggests that the Bank's interaction with these countries has been affected by other factors. We introduce broader considerations into our regressions by including the Bank's total country lending and countries' OED project success rates, as well as regional differences. The results in columns 2 and 3 of Table 5.1 suggest that the Bank's overall lending relationship with a country and the country's project success rate are both significant determinants of environmental lending. The results in column 3 also indicate a significant component of environmental lending to two regions (ECA, MNA) that is not accounted for by our environmental problem indicator, project success rates, or other Bank lending. 14
renewable energy, that are now covered by other projects; and (b) government needs support to lead coordination of the development response across multiple operations. The project will have five components. **Component 1: Social and Economic Services and Infrastructure (US$191.5 million equivalent)** 23. **This component will support the construction, rehabilitation, upgrading, and maintenance of priority basic** **service infrastructure.** Infrastructure investments will benefit both refugees and host community members, supporting the transition roadmap goal of integrating refugees into national education, health, and water supply systems. Component activities will support improved access to services for three million people (66 percent host community members/34 percent refugees). 18 See ICR Report No. ICR00006388, December 3, 2024. 19 World Bank (2022). _Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement: a Synthesis of New Research_ . Washington DC: World Bank. Page 7
**The World Bank** Integrated Community Resilience Project (P506969) PROJECT APPRAISAL DOCUMENT 13. **Refugee-hosting areas such as Obock, Ali Addeh, and Holl Holl, face difficulties in the delivery of key services,** **such as adequate water supply, sanitation, and electricity.** Access to reliable water sources is particularly limited, contributing to health vulnerabilities in both refugee sites and host communities. Carrying water from wells to houses imposes a heavy burden of work on women and children, reducing education opportunities. Similarly, electricity coverage remains inadequate, with many households and public facilities still dependent on unreliable power supply. Geographic isolation, especially in Obock, further compounds these issues, as the region's remote location and underdeveloped infrastructure inhibit service delivery, especially during extreme weather events. Refugees in Djibouti face high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition [12], and the World Food Program (WFP), in partnership with the MoI and UNHCR, provides unconditional food assistance to more than 22,200 people per month in refugee-hosting areas of Djibouti [13] . 14. **Women are disproportionately affected by socio-economic disadvantages in Djibouti, facing significant gaps** **across different dimensions, including access to basic services, education and employment opportunities** . Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is reported to be higher among women than men
their surrounding environment. For example, it is expected that SLR will have its most pronounced effects on brackish and freshwater marshes in the coastal zone through alteration of hydrological regimes (Burkett and Kusler, 2000; Baldwin et al., 2001; Sun et al., 2002). Similarly, sea-level rise may not lead to loss of saltmarsh areas since these marshes accrete vertically and maintain their elevation relative to sea level where the supply of sediment is sufficient (Hughes, 2004; Cahoon et al., 2006). WMP indicates the potential for wetlands to migrate landward in response to a 1-meter rise in sea level. The migratory potential is based on a few geophysical characteristics of the coastline: coastal type, topography, tidal range, and other information when available (e.g., whether 14 GLWD coastal wetlands is a term used in this paper to distinguish coastal wetlands from the specific coastal wetlands type in the GLWD. GLWD coastal wetlands type is derived from a number of data sources and categories: ‘Lagoon’ from ArcWorld (ESRI, 1992: referenced in Lehner and Döll 2004); ‘Delta’, ‘Lagoon’, ‘Mangrove’, ‘Estuary’, ‘Coastal Wetland’, and ‘Tidal Wetland’ of WCMC wetlands map (Dugan, 1993; WCMC, 1993; referenced in Lehner and Döll 2004) - see Lehner and Döll (2004)
### Protection Risk III **Access to work:** 10% of respondents who are unemployed reported challenges in accessing employment, mainly due to language barriers, a lack of opportunities, as well as a lack of education recognition, caring responsibilities for dependents, or a lack of information. Focus group discussions conducted by UNHCR [2] ## highlighted challenges with women accessing 61% employment due to a lack of childcare, Face language barriers in accessing kindergarten places and other childcare employment arrangements, including for school-age children. Given the large proportion of single female caregivers, addressing this challenge will be key to increase access to work for this group and to mitigate protection risks including gender-based violence, human trafficking and exploitation. Women also raised challenges related to language barriers in accessing employment. Specific challenges in accessing quality language courses at the correct level were also raised (high demand for quality B1-level courses). The lack of adequate language skills leads to the inability to upscale professional skills and to seek meaningful employment opportunities matching qualifications. When seeking employment through agencies, women reported cases of labour exploitation with jobs that often involve long working hours, no breaks, no social protection coverage, and no annual leave. From protection monitoring,
no significant differences in either of them. 13 Information on crop output was collected at the crop level, separately for the two main agricultural seasons (July - December 2004 and January - June 2005). A diary was used for continuously harvested crops and prices, in addition to standard socio-economic information, were collected at the community level. 9
assistance in finding new employment and in relation to their legal status. Finally, out of those who do not have a rental contract (6%), the majority of respondents (92% in comparison to 75% in Q1) are in this situation because the unit is rented by another person or entity. This may indicate a prevalence of sublease schemes. During UNHCR’s focus group discussions with Ukrainian Temporary Protection holders in Brno and Prague in August, some participants highlighted having encountered challenges with sublease schemes, including facing higher than market-rate rent propositions. 3 Multiple responses were possible. UNHCR / September 2024 3
estimation strategy assumes similar trends over time across the treatment (close to mines) and control group (far away from mines), in absence of the gold mining expansion. While this assumption cannot be tested using our dataset, previous analyses have found evidence for parallel pre-trends in infant mortality and night lights (Benshaul-Tolonen, 2019) for gold mining countries in West and East Africa (including Ghana). The baseline differences in observable characteristics – in particular, lower levels of economic development preceding the mine opening - indicate that a cross sectional approach using only the post-period may not be sufficient to understand the impact of gold mining on socio-economic variables. **Table 2 Summary statistics for women’s survey** (1) (2) (3) (4) Before mining During Mining >20 km <20 km >20 km <20 km Mean Coefficient Mean Coefficient _Woman Characteristics_ Age 28.79 0.836 28.95 -0.352 Total children 2.18 0.417* 2.56 -0.035 Wealth 3.85 -0.619** 3.33 -0.028 Nonmigrant 0.32 0.123** 0.33 -0.028 Urban 0.62 -0.300** 0.49 -0.150** No education 0.17 -0.045 0.20 -0.042** <3 years education 0.77 0.035 0.74 0.045** 15
impact of property rights insecurity arising from overlapping land rights rather than comparing titled and untitled land. We do so for the case of Uganda, a country where overlapping property rights, many of them established a long time ago, are very common. This, together with the ability to rely on a large nationally representative household survey, allows us to go beyond the existing literature in three respects. First, while the historical genesis of overlapping rights makes it unlikely that such arrangements were chosen based on comparing the cost and benefits of different contractual forms, our ability to apply household level fixed effect estimation techniques to a large sample of (owner-cum-occupant) households who simultaneously operate own and usufruct parcels allows us to avoid many of the biases that have characterized cross sectional estimates in the past. Second, the existence of laws aiming to eliminate investment disincentives arising from overlapping property rights enables us to assess whether, and if yes to what extent, such laws have achieved their objective. This provides lessons on the scope to reduce underinvestment associated with insecure tenure through (legislative) means that stop short of changing the land ownership structure. Finally, information on tenants’ willingness to purchase residual
scenario as given, and assess the _exposure_ of the present wetland stock for each of the 76 developing countries and five regions. Second, the digital elevation (90m DEM V2) data we use in our analysis gives altitude in 1-meter increments, preventing us from sub-meter SLR modeling. [13] Third, the lack of resolution of spatial data of the wetlands and digital elevation higher than 90 m prevented us from including small islands in our analysis. Fourth, our analysis does not estimate potential destruction of wetlands from 13 One can interpolate the elevation data we have used for sub-meter SLR modeling, but in that case, precision of the estimates would be difficult to justify. The potential use of LIDAR survey (laser-based elevation measurement from low-flying aircraft) was beyond the scope of our analysis. 5
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of Bengal** **3.2 Trend in Maximum Wind Speed, 1877-2016** Maximum wind speed is the consistently-reported measure of storm power in our database. We compute two measures for a trend analysis. First, we order all 525 storms by date and compute the 20-date moving average (MA) for maximum wind speed. This is similar to a conventional moving average, which uses evenly-spaced dates. Storm incidence in our database varies by season and year, but we believe that our MA measure is informative because year-to-year 6
**The World Bank** Costa Rica Results in Education (CORE) (P181174) **ANNEX 1: Implementation Arrangements** **Financial Management** 1. Financial Management tasks for the proposed project will be handled by the PIU to be created, which will be staffed with a seasoned Financial Management Specialist/budgetary an Accounting and Treasury Analyst for carrying out financial management tasks under the project which include: (i) a financial management specialist, (including processing payments and submitting loan withdrawal applications to the WB); (iii) maintenance of accounting records (including the administration and maintenance of an inventory of project assets); (iv) preparation of semi-annual reports and annual financial statements; (v) administration of adequate information systems; and (vi) arranging for execution of external audit. 2. The staff required for the FM positions referred above will be hired under Terms of Reference acceptable to the Bank. 3. **Planning and budgeting** . The PIU will be responsible for preparing and monitoring the annual operating plan and budget. The project’s annual operational plan will be the main input for budget formulation. Budget formulation and execution will follow local procedures and requirements. (i.e., approval of transactions, modifications, issuance of commitments) Its monitoring procedures will be established in the Project Operational Manual POM. The budget
the radius-buffered storm track polygon at its first coastal intersection. **3. Aggregate Results** **3.1 Trend in Cyclonic Storm Incidence, 1877-2016** Although we focus on the northern coast of the Bay of Bengal, our database includes all recorded tracks for the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. This provides a very large regional sample: 525 cyclonic storms recorded from 1877 to 2016. For a trend analysis, we divide the data into seven periods: 1877-1900, 1901-1920, 1921-1940, 1941-1960, 1961-1980, 1981-2000 and 2001 2016. Table 1 and Figure 1 provide two trend measures for cyclonic storm frequencies since 1877: storms/year for each period, and the two-period moving average of storms/year. The first measure displays no trend through 1960, a large increase during the period 1961-1980, and a decline from 3 Some storm tracks that approach at oblique angles intersect the coastline two or more times. 5
Despite the possible gains in wages for wage earners, we note a decrease in the regionally deflated total household expenditure (column 5), and a decrease in per capita expenditure on food and nonfood items (column 4). The increase in wages but decrease in total expenditure can possibly be explained by rising prices and wages in mining communities, where everyone has to pay the higher prices but only some (those who earn wages), benefit from a rise in wage rate. Columns 6 through 9 of table 12 look at nondeflated expenditure measures for food, housing, health and education, and household energy. [17] We confirm that total household expenditure on food decreases (compared with the per capita deflated measure in column (4)), but find that households spend more money on housing, transport, and communication, and household energy, such as electricity and gas. The electricity and gas expenditure is only for those who have any positive expenditure on these, and we saw earlier that electricity access changes with the mine. This confirms that, among those who spend anything on electricity, they spend more on it in mining communities. **Table 12 Using GLSS: Household income and expenditure** (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
data section for details. 11 The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) projects increased SLR between 0.18m and 0.59m across various emission scenarios over the next 100 years. However, this range has been criticized by many experts as being too conservative and not sufficiently reflective of the large uncertainty pertaining to SLR (Krabill _et al_ ., 2004; Overpeck _et al_ ., 2006; Rahmstorf, 2007). The most recent evidence suggests that sea-level rise could reach 1 meter or more during this century (Hansen and Sato, 2011; Vermeer and Rahmstorf 2009; Pfeffer et al., 2008). The IPCC itself pointed out that its projections did not include changes within the polar ice sheets. The IPCC noted that the upper values of projected sea level rise presented in its report are not to be considered upper bounds and that higher rises in sea level cannot be ruled out. 12 These being the five regions used by the World Bank: East Asia and Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa 4
the efficiency of disbursement to communities, address payment delays, and improve the timeliness of financial reporting and accountability; (b) MoF and BoU are strengthening internal control mechanisms around TSA payments to ensure the correct beneficiaries are paid; and (c) MoFPED has set up regional centers for local governments to go to if they face network problems and unstable electricity to use the IFMIS to account for project funds. MoFPED has also provided budget to local governments to purchase fuel for generators to manage power cuts. The IFMIS, the use of a consolidated fund, and payments to beneficiaries using the TSA at BoU have significantly enhanced accountability at the local government level. This is reflected in the Auditor General’s report for 2022/23 and 2023/24, where all 22 local governments involved in project implementation had an unqualified (clean) audit opinion except for Ntoroko district, which had a qualified opinion. [24] Accountability measures for all implementing entities, including community-based organizations and seed grants for VRFs, will be described in the FM section of the PIM. The PIM will also include a Community Operations Manual that will detail all steps in the CDD process, including accountability arrangements. 75. **Audit** . The project will have
**2024 CRITICAL FUNDING NEEDS IN EUROPE** ###### **South Eastern Europe** As of June 2024, some 3,000 refugees and asylum-seekers were present in South Eastern Europe, including 199 unaccompanied and separated children. [5] UNHCR’s [Strategy for engagement in mixed](https://reliefweb.int/report/world/strategy-unhcr-engagement-mixed-movement-western-balkans-revision-october-2021) [movements in the Western Balkans sets a foundation to work with partners to strengthen asylum systems](https://reliefweb.int/report/world/strategy-unhcr-engagement-mixed-movement-western-balkans-revision-october-2021) and identify viable solutions for refugees, as well as to eradicate statelessness, while fostering opportunities for integration and inclusion for those granted international protection. UNHCR is helping to build the capacities of local authorities to gradually assume greater responsibility for their asylum systems, while also improving protection-sensitive migration management across the region, including recognising the importance of effective return mechanisms for those not in need of international protection. **Funding is needed to support these efforts and ensure sustainable programming** for integration and inclusion, and to identify durable solutions for refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless people in the region – which is itself a region of emigration. # 30.7 % 5 Non-Ukrainian nationals; of these, 52 per cent were in Bosnia and Herzegovina; 25 per cent in Serbia; 7 per cent in Kosovo; 6 per cent each in Albania and Montenegro; and 4 per cent in North Macedonia.
which calls for systematic mainstreaming of adaptation measures in project design and implementation. Jya Mbere II will also align with the GoR’s National Adaptation Plan of Action (2006), Third National Communications to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2018 and its Updated Nationally-Determined Contributions (NDC) 2020, in which it commits to mainstream environmental sustainability and climate change adaptation efforts. Rwanda’s Updated NDC includes a conditional commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 16 percent by 2030 relative to a business as usual (BAU) scenario, and an unconditional commitment to reduce GHG by an additional 22 percent by 2030 relative to the BAU scenario. The project does not hinder this mitigation goal by ensuring that all infrastructure subprojects will be subject to climate risk assessments and will comply with climate-resilient standards. Finally, the project will support implementation of key recommendations from the 2022 Rwanda Country Climate and Development Report, such as investing in the water sector (including flood control and water storage), renewable energy sources and climate-smart agriculture. The results framework will track the number of infrastructure subprojects constructed/upgraded to climate-resilient standards. 71. _Assessment and reduction of mitigation risks_ . The project (Component 1) will invest in infrastructure, including
assessments, which will include (a) participatory focus groups and (b) semi-structured interviews with refugees and former refugees, host community members, farmers, cooperatives, and agribusinesses. Citizen engagement outcomes will be assessed through the indicator “Stakeholder consultations convened, and priority measures identified”. These beneficiary assessments will help assess the relevance and impact of project interventions. Each of the interventions will be assessed with respect to inclusion, productivity, climate resilience, jobs, incomes, and food security. 55. **The project’s M&E system will disaggregate results by gender and youth wherever possible and for refugee and** **host communities.** This will ensure that differential impacts on vulnerable groups are adequately recorded. **C. Sustainability** 56. **Investing in policy reform and legal identity for refugees will play a massive role in supporting long-term,** **sustained self-reliance for refugees and former refugees.** The project is aligned with the country’s National Refugee Policy and settlement modernization strategy, both of which seek long-term solutions to inclusion and self-reliance. The GRZ is actively promoting integration between refugees and local communities for economic advancement and is seeking enhanced partnerships with local stakeholders and international partners in addressing the issue of forced displacement. 57. **Appropriately assessing the sustainability risk of investment operations in refugee settlements in