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Haiti secures $4.5 million from LDCF towards improved water management
The Global Environment Facility's Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) has approved $4.5 million towards strengthening the climate resilience of the drinking water sector in Haiti, with around 130,000 people in the country’s southeast to directly benefit from more reliable access to clean drinking water and, in turn, improved health, livelihoods, and food security.
Financing for disaster reduction discussed at WBG-IMF Annual Meetings
In the wake of the recent hurricanes that have devastated islands across the Caribbean, and other incidences of extreme weather around the world, disaster risk financing was on the agenda of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
A number of sessions looked at the issue in advance of October 13, designated by the United Nations as the International Day for Disaster Reduction.