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May 17
2021
Application Information : Please email a brief cover letter (optional) and your resume to Kaavya Ashok Krishna ( kashokkrishna@worldbank.org ) and Sumati Rajput ( srajput1@worldbank.org ) Application Deadline: Monday, 31 May, 2021 Terms of Reference : PLEASE click here to download the Terms of Reference for the position Keep reading
May 11
2021
On April 27, 2021, the World Bank Group's (WBG) Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program (DRFIP) and the Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) jointly hosted a virtual session on Managing Disaster Related Contingent Liabilities. This was the first session in the Knowledge Exchange Series: Building Sovereign Financial Resilience in Middle Income Countries. The series is a continuation, in virtual formats, of traditional knowledge exchange events that take place every... Keep reading
May 03
2021
A series of training sessions on fiscal/financial risk assessment of disasters was provided to the Ministry of Finance of Georgia (MoF) during December 2020 and April 2021. The objective of the training was to support the Government of Georgia in understanding the fiscal/financial impacts of disasters and inform their improvement of the fiscal risk statement as it relates to disaster and climate shocks. The training was part of the technical assistance under the WB-SECO program on sovereign... Keep reading