To the north, there have been sporadic clashes along Benin's border with Burkina Faso. The trouble has been blamed on land disputes between rival communities on both sides of the border. President: Patrice Talon. Businessman Patrice Talon, known as the "king of cotton", won the presidential election in a run-off vote in March. Mr Talon was formerly a close ally of the outgoing president, and financed his campaigns for the and elections. He fled to France after being accused of involvement in a plot to poison Mr Boni Yayi in - an allegation he strongly denies.
Mr Talon received a presidential pardon in May and returned from exile in October On taking up his post in April , he pledged to make tackling terrorism and cross-border crime a priority area, and to strive to promote national unity. The World Bank supports these focus areas through investment projects in education, health and nutrition, roads, improved livelihoods, agriculture diversification, land allocation for social and economic development, water supply and sanitation, sustainable landscape and water resource management, disaster risk management, and community-level service delivery.
Cambodia also benefits from a co-financing grant trust fund. Further, the Bank made adjustments to the active portfolio to respond to the crisis. The Livelihood Enhancement and Association of the Poor project continued to use the skills development platform to scale up the labor component.
The Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement project will install water connections in hospitals treating COVID patients and provided hand washing stations to households in low-income communities.
Testing capacity has increased from 1, tests to 6, tests per day. The medical equipment from the project has been distributed to support the development and expansion of COVID treatment at one national hospital, 4 national treatment centers, and all 25 provincial hospitals.
Infection prevention and control was enhanced through the provision of environmentally friendly technology, equipment, and supplies. Equipment has been provided for the establishment of the Emergency Operation Centers in all provincial health department offices.
It is the fourth in a series of World Bank-supported projects that have helped to expand the health facility network, with medical and laboratory equipment and equity and financial protection for the poor.
H-EQIP strengthened non-communicable disease services and government capacity and enhanced quality of care, infection prevention and control, and sanitation and water quality in health facilities. As of September , almost 50, women have been screened for cervical cancer. This has changed the empowerment and accountability paradigm as the additional resources have facilitated facility-level decision-making. The HEF system has also ensured vital funding for maintaining equipment and infrastructure and for dealing with unexpected shortages of drugs and consumables.
The Cambodia Nutrition Project aims to improve utilization and quality of priority maternal and child health and nutrition services for targeted groups in Cambodia.
The project has three components to strengthen the delivery of priority health services and stimulate demand and accountability at the community level as well as to ensure effective and sustainable response by financing results-based support to the Ministry of Health departments and programs, development and delivery of modernized social and behavior change communication campaigns. The project aims to improve school facilities through the construction and rehabilitation of existing schools, the construction of 30 new schools, and equipping laboratory facilities at targeted schools.
Over the past three and a half years, the project has benefitted 25, students, teachers, and educational staff at national and sub-national levels. The project also provides grants to promote the development and implementation of research projects in science, technology, engineering, and math STEM and agriculture.
The support mainly helped the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport develop teaching videos to be broadcast on its social media channels and television, develop student worksheets for the students to work with their textbooks, and provide school grants to print and copy the student worksheets for low-income students.
So far, the supply side has rolled out to 24 out of 25 capitals and provinces, out of districts, municipalities, and khans, and 1, out of 1, communes and sangkats across the country. Celebrating International Youth Day Today's generation of young people — defined by the United Nations as those aged 15 to 24 — is the largest in history. An estimated 87 per cent of the world's young people live in developing countries, and the majority live in rural areas.
However, in the world's poorest countries, opportunities for youth are often limited or non-existent, leaving them marginalized politically, economically and socially. Related blogs. Related publications. In Benin, agriculture plays a central role in the national economy, contributing 32 per cent of GDP and employing a large part of the workforce. Investing in rural people in Benin.
Related videos. The Beninese economy is largely based on agriculture, trade and the transit of goods through the Autonomous Port of Cotonou. Women predominate in the informal sector, where their work is not recognized or fairly remunerated. For the past three decades, Benin had been a stable, democratic country until a recent post-election crisis led to a reduction in citizen participation and the engagement of women and young people in politics.
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