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  1. “Working through such partnerships, the World Bank is bringing knowledge and financing to the table, relying on existing instruments and reallocation of funds for rapid action, as well as investing in medium-term recovery and long-term resilience.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  2. “Strengthening regional bodies, such as the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, is a key element of preparedness going forward. This will help to further develop early warning systems, including using new but simple technologies such as mobile phones, and consolidate useful flows of information in anticipation of crisis. The Bank works closely with partners, in particular the regional organizations the Economic Community of West African States, the West African Economic and Monetary Union and the African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development, as well as multilateral and bilateral agencies, including in particular the European Union, the African Development Bank and the Agence Francaise de Developpement.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  3. “They are also complemented by our ongoing support for health and nutrition, as well as for education and skills to help diversify livelihoods. The Bank's engagement in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa also provides a springboard for addressing the broader drylands agenda, which requires the integration of resilience as a key theme of development. Food security in the Sahel can also be significantly improved by measures to free up food trade, including improving the efficiency of border crossings or even eliminating them, reducing non-tariff barriers to food trade, reinforcing supply chains, strengthening risk markets, such as offering farmers crop insurance through weather-indexed instruments, and avoiding export bans.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  4. “Drawing on lessons from the Horn of Africa, we are also helping to plan for social safety nets that can be rapidly scaled up to channel additional resources in times of need. From experience in Ethiopia and other countries, we know that robust social protection systems can make a major difference, preventing shocks from escalating into crises. We are also helping to build resilient livelihoods in the long-term. Investments in transformative multi-use water infrastructure, such as the Kandadji program in the Niger, will help people to sustain agricultural production and remain resilient to crisis in future. These large-scale investments need to be accompanied by scaled-up, climate-smart agricultural practices.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  5. “Across the Sahel more broadly, our three-phased response - an approach we also adopted in the Horn of Africa - has ranged from providing immediate relief to planning for and investing in long-term resilience. In the past few months, we have responded quickly through accelerated disbursements amounting to $64 million from existing World Bank operations across the Niger, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania. This has helped to support vulnerable households through cash for work, recapitalizing livestock, rehabilitating small-scale irrigation, and improving access to food and health services. As a second part to our response, we have helped people to replace lost assets and to recover their livelihoods.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  6. “More than 450,000 people have fled their homes since fighting erupted, and the number of internally displaced people in Mali is estimated to be 119,000. The national gross domestic product is expected to contract by 3.1 per cent in 2012. The World Bank is providing practical support to help vulnerable groups cope with effects of this compounded crisis. In July, we resumed existing operations in Mali in the social sectors and agriculture to help people access basic services. We are also preparing new basic education and safety nets programmes. We are working with partners to create synergies and minimize fragmentation. For example, for the Mali Safety Nets Project, we are working very closely with UNICEF and the World Food Programme to address the needs of specific groups, including internally displaced people.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  7. “Even in years when there is record agricultural production, many people are vulnerable to shocks because of chronic food insecurity, persistently high malnutrition, and loss of livelihood owing to a lack of economic alternatives. These shocks deeply affect human development, with shortfalls in nutrition and stimulation among the young children of today having a tragic long-term impact on their future lives and productivity as the adults of tomorrow. The institutional and security crisis arising from the military coup in March has made an already difficult situation much worse in Mali. It has severely hampered the response to Mali's drought of 2011. Today, some 4.6 million people, of whom over 1.6 million live within the conflict-affected northern regions, are at risk of food insecurity in Mali.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  8. “Good rains in the current agricultural season have reduced the acute need and benefited the harvest in many locations, but rains have also brought flooding that has affected 3.2 million people in West Africa and displaced 1.7 million people, mostly in Nigeria. Those challenges come on top of other chronic threats including desert locusts, rapid population growth, pre-existing high levels of child malnutrition, well over 400,000 migrants returning from Libya, and conflict. Conflict and lack of security have particularly affected the delivery of humanitarian and development assistance in northern Mali. Being part of the Sahel, Mali is affected by climate volatility and rainfall variability in a very deep-seated way.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source

  9. “Ms. Reinikka: The President of the World Bank, Mr. Jim Yong Kim, is unable to be here today, but he has asked me to convey his greetings and thanks to the Council for organizing this event and for inviting the World Bank. We are committed to a strong partnership with the United Nations on the Sahel, and Mr. Kim was particularly pleased to participate in the special event on the Sahel organized on the margins of the General Assembly in September. I wish to assure the Council of our continuing commitment to working collaboratively to address the great needs of the Sahel, where 19 million people were affected by reduced access to food following the 2011 drought.”

    2012-12-10 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6882 (2012) · source