3RP Refugee and Resilience Plan 2016-2017 Regional Strategic Overview
Strengthening the Global Response to Forced Displacement
Mar 15, 2016 / Blog entry
With the refugee crisis gaining the world’s attention since war broke out in Syria, many ideas have been raised to address forced displacement, both in the Middle East and in countries around the world. Displacement has emerged as a critical development challenge, one that affects not only the people displaced but also the communities hosting them...
[Interview] What Do Syria’s Neighboring Countries Need to Manage the Refugee Crisis?
Mar 08, 2016 / Library
Almost five years since the Syrian war broke out and created the largest refugees crisis since the World War II. Syria’s neighboring countries are facing an unprecedented and protracted refugee crisis. France 24 spoke to Franck Bousquet, the World Bank’s Director of Regional Programs, Partnerships and Integrated Solutions in the Middle East and...
[Interview] Lebanon and Jordan are Providing a Global Public Good and They Need to be Supported
Mar 08, 2016 / Library
The World Bank Group, the United Nations and the Islamic Development Bank Group launched a new financing initiative to scale-up financing in the Middle East and North Africa to help countries hosting significant refugee populations, countries impacted by conflict, as well as countries that have significant investment needs to achieve economic...
[Interview] What is the World Bank’s Strategy to Support Refugees and Hosting Countries?
Feb 25, 2016 / Library
The Middle East and North Africa region could remain trapped in a cycle of instability without the resources to manage the current consequences of conflict and seize opportunities for peace as soon as they arise. To meet the scale of the need, the World Bank Group, United Nations and the Islamic Development Bank Group have launched a new financing...
Barcelona Resilience Week
Feb 22, 2016 / Highlight
Building on the success of the Barcelona Resilience Experience in February 2015, that drew over 170 participants and more than 20 cities, the BCN Urban Resilience Partnership, UN-HABITAT’s City Resilience Profiling Programme and the City of Barcelona are launching Barcelona Resilience Week, a global platform for discussion and learning between...
Leveraging Women Entrepreneurship for Resilience in MENA Cities
Jan 29, 2016 / Library
Three female-led teams from Beirut and Cairo were awarded in September 2015 in Marseille at the Grand Finale of the “Women for Resilient Cities Start-up Competition” organized by the World Bank and the Center for Mediterranean Integration. The event brought together seven finalist teams along with business incubators, local stakeholders from...
Radwa Rostom / Hand Over: Meet the Winners of the Women for Resilience Initiative
Jan 29, 2016 / Library
Three female-led teams from Beirut and Cairo were awarded in September 2015 in Marseille at the Grand Finale of the “Women for Resilient Cities Start-up Competition” organized by the World Bank and the Center for Mediterranean Integration. The event brought together seven finalist teams along with business incubators, local stakeholders from...
#SheIsResilient: Young Women Entrepreneurs from MENA Build the Resilience of their Cities
Jan 29, 2016 / Highlight
Three female-led projects from Beirut and Cairo were awarded at the Grand Finale of the “Women for Resilient Cities Start-up Competition” organized by the World Bank and the Center for Mediterranean Integration.
The Women for Resilience (W4R) is an initiative conducted by the World Bank in partnership with the Global Facility for Disaster...
Sara Helou / eTobb: Meet the Winners of the Women for Resilience Initiative
Jan 29, 2016 / Library
Three female-led teams from Beirut and Cairo were awarded in September 2015 in Marseille at the Grand Finale of the “Women for Resilient Cities Start-up Competition” organized by the World Bank and the Center for Mediterranean Integration. The event brought together seven finalist teams along with business incubators, local stakeholders from...
Hoda Mahmoud / transi.to: Meet the Winners of the Women for Resilience Initiative
Jan 29, 2016 / Library
Three female-led teams from Beirut and Cairo were awarded in September 2015 in Marseille at the Grand Finale of the “Women for Resilient Cities Start-up Competition” organized by the World Bank and the Center for Mediterranean Integration. The event brought together seven finalist teams along with business incubators, local stakeholders from...
Women for Resilient Cities
Sep 17, 2015 / Program
Lead Organization
The World Bank.
Partners
IE Business School, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), Center for Mediterranean Integration.
Countries Targeted
Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia.
Challenges
Managing disaster risks is one of the most complex...
Increasing the Resilience of Cities in MENA
Sep 17, 2015 / Program
The World Bank and the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), in partnership with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and, the Arab Urban Development Institute (AUDI), are organizing the high-level workshop: “Increasing Resilience of Cities in MENA: What can City Leaders Learn from International Experience”. The...
La Mediterranee en debats depuis le MuCEM a Marseille
Syrian Refugee Crisis: What we watch in Horror on the Nightly News has Been Unfolding for Years in the Middle East
Sep 17, 2015 / Blog entry
Today, the world has woken-up to the reality that some countries in the Middle East have been living through for the past three years. The unbearably tragic picture of the Syrian toddler, Aylan, lying face down on a beach in Turkey has driven home the tragic fate of millions of refugees...
Who will Help Syria’s Displaced University Students?
Sep 17, 2015 / Blog entry
Unprecedented in scale and, with 16 million people already displaced and more living under the threat of displacement, the current crisis in the Middle East seems unlikely to go away anytime soon. The crisis is rare in that it largely affects middle income countries with fairly well developed education systems. The worst hit country is Syria,...
Crisis and Post-Crisis Situations: Development Agencies are also Concerned!
Sep 16, 2015 / Blog entry
2.6 billion people have been affected by natural disasters over the past ten years. Over 1.5 billion human beings are today living in countries affected by a violent armed conflict. There are 60 million refugees around the world. “Crises” are no longer an exception. From the tragedy in the Central African Republic to the Ebola epidemic or the...
Syrian Refugee Conference - Biographies
#SheIsResilient: Young Women Entrepreneurs from MENA Build the Resilience of their Cities
Public Response of the Education Sector to the Syrian Refugees Crisis in Lebanon
Les pays d'accueil offrent au monde un bien public mondial
Sep 08, 2015 / Library
Interviews with Ferid BELHAJ, Country Director for the Middle East at the World Bank; Alain BIFANI, Director General at the Lebanese Ministry of Finance; Amin AWAD, Director of Bureau for the Middle East and North Africa at UNHCR; and Olivier Ray, Head of the Crisis Prevention and Conflict Unit at the French Development Agency.
Interviews...
Syria’s Neighbours Seek Help with Refugee Crisis
Sep 08, 2015 / Library
Interviews with Ferid BELHAJ, Country Director for the Middle East at the World Bank and Salaheddin AL BASHIR, Chairman of the Board of Justice Center for Legal Aid in Jordan, in the context of the high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis “From Resilience to Development” jointly organized by the CMI, the World Bank,...
Syria Refugee Crisis: Supporting Mashreq Countries in their Development Agenda
Sep 08, 2015 / Highlight
Sixty decision-making representatives from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey and European countries affected by the refugee crisis, development and financing partners, practitioners and technical experts on fragility and conflict gathered in Marseille to discuss the long term development implications of the refugee crisis in the...
Press Release: Call for a Reinvigorated International Response to Support Mashreq Countries Hosting Syrian Refugees in their Development Agenda
Press Invitation: "From Resilience to Development"
Sep 05, 2015 / Library
A high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis.
Participant List: "From Resilience to Development"
Sep 05, 2015 / Library
A high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis.
Concept Note: "From Resilience to Development"
Sep 05, 2015 / Library
A high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis.
Agenda: "From Resilience to Development"
Sep 05, 2015 / Library
A high level stakeholder conference on the Syrian refugee crisis.
Women for Resilient Cities Grand Finale: #SheIsResilient
Aug 17, 2015 / Highlight
Context
While around the world, the number of disasters has almost doubled since the 1980s, in MENA, the average number of natural disasters has almost tripled over the same period. Approximately 40 million people have been affected by over 350 natural disasters between 1981 and 2010. Vulnerabilities are on the rise across the region, with risks...
