5 January 2012: The voting process to elect civil society representatives to the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) is now open and will close on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 11:59 PM GMT.
15 December 2011: The World Bank and the Center for Coordination and Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (CEPREDENAC) have signed two cooperation agreements for more than US$1 million to support the implementation of the Central American Policy for Integral Disaster Risk Management (PCGIR).
28 December 2011: Hasan Tuluy is the World Bank's new Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), replacing Pamela Cox, who after seven years will take the position of Vice President for the East Asia and the Pacific Region.
26 December 2011: The Latin American Development Bank (CAF) and the Avina Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form alliances for sustainable development in Latin America. The two parties plan to cooperate in facilitating the implementation of programmes and projects of common interest, with a special emphasis on "less fortunate" communities in CAF shareholder countries, with a view to promoting alliances between social leaders and the business sector.
22 December 2011: The interim Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has published a message to parties on the launch of the GCF. The notification contains two Annexes on the board of the GCF and on criteria for the selection of the host country.
22 December 2011: The 12th issue of AMEP Quarterly highlights projects and activities implemented by the Assessment and Management of Environmental Pollution (AMEP) sub-programme of UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) Kingston, Jamaica-based Caribbean Regional Coordinating Unit (CAR/CRU), including several funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) on topics such as AMEP, wastewater management, waste management, oil spill response planning, and climate change and disaster management.
15 December 2011: At its 16th meeting, the Adaptation Fund Board accredited three new implementing entities and approved the second project with direct access through a National Implementing Entity (NIE).
CReW is a four-year project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that will focus on piloting revolving financing mechanisms and wastewater management reforms in the Wider Caribbean Region. The project will be managed and implemented by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), with UNEP's Kingston, Jamaica-based Regional Coordinating Unit (CAR/RCU) as the lead executing agency for the project components on policy and legal reforms and information management. An inception workshop will be held 6 February, followed by the first meeting of the CReW Steering Committee on 7-8 February.
December 2011: Following the Haiti earthquake of 2010, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), through the Least Developed Fund (LDCF), developed a project on “Strengthening Climate Resilience and Reducing Disaster Risk in Agriculture to Improve Food Security in Haiti post-Earthquake.”
20 December 2011: The World Bank has approved a $49.6 million loan to support Brazil's "Energy and Mineral Sectors Strengthening Project," which aims to build the capacity of key public sector institutions to improve the energy and mineral sectors' contribution to environmentally and socially sustainable growth.
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