Proud of the work of our Nepal World Bank team- Drones, Reaching New Heights in Nepal’s Fight Against Climate Change. We are helping govts across South Asia improve their capacity to mainstream the use of tech like drones. Dr. Iguniwari Ekeu-wei Basanta Cecile Fruman buff.ly/3Y9jB3y

Amazing news Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE a real shinning light for the country & #freetown

We’re proud to announce that we’ve formalized partnerships with the Government of Ukraine to provide #ProgramManagement and technical advisory support to help the country achieve its reconstruction goals.

Learn more about this critical recovery effort.

No data - no problem! Change the approach and get people to draw, a great way of quickly building up a picture of cities growth areas & risk points. A small example in #kiambu county #kenya #resilience #datamanagement #resilientcities

#listen to this excellent BBC Sounds story of a #carbonoffsetting project that has had a series of sad consequences to a village in #wales that I grew up in & farmed those very fields as a kid #climatechange lnkd.in/e5KhJxzg

On this International Women’s day, I am pleased to announce that I am running for re-election as the Mayor of Freetown #24June2023

Rock on Eleni Polychroniadou

A special thank you to African Development Bank Group for their support in the publication of the 2022 Housing Finance Yearbook! Find out more about African Development Bank Group here afdb.org
Download the Africa Housing Finance Yearbook 2022 for free here housingfinanceafrica.org/resources/year…

#YB2022 #housing

Visited a World Bank project site in Kananga and witnessed the scale of soil erosion in the city. Immediate containment measures are needed as well as sustainable nature-based solutions that support urban planning and emergency preparedness and response.

Excellent workshop with Kajiado County Government in #kenya getting the pens & plans out to build #resilience into planning systems

Dusting off the pens & tracing paper before heading to #kenya tomorrow to support World Bank Cities former colleagues to support urban areas to integrate #resilience in planning systems.

Great session Andrew Steer very intrigued how the vast amount of #amazon data can be used to provide accurate #climatedata to mitigate future risks?

Having not been in #ibadan for over 2 years was nice still to be featured in Ibadan_Flood newsletter!! Hope all is going well to build #resilience in the city?

Excellent to see this! Congrats

Was great to welcome friends Eleni & Tom Sintali at Buildings + Places London offices. As we held a technical deep dive on IFC #greenbuildings certification tool EDGE

.Global Environment Facility (GEF) mourns the loss of renowned tropical scientist Gustavo Fonseca, its long-standing Director of Programs.

Gustavo spent his career facing environmental challenges with his optimism & pragmatism intact, an approach that won him friends & accolades. wrld.bg/KbuO50Kxfxw

Excellent news to close the week a big High Five for African #cities a huge stride in enhancing #resilient cities African Development Bank Group Marcus Mayr & friends

Great blog by World Bank Cities team exploring climate change and risky urbanization patterns are expected to further aggravate flood risk. blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/…

You cannot imagine my absolute joy in opening my favourite weekly newspaper,The EastAfrican, at brunch this morning and discovering I made THE HEADLINE opinion piece this week for the first time ever! (and what a fabulous cartoon-me holding a whole city in my hands!!)

Do you want to map urban poverty from space?

See Alex Chunet and my blog
🔗blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecit…

We use an example from #Bujumbura with #remotesensing to join forces with machines

For more details see the #Burundi 🇧🇮 #Urbanization Report 📙
🔗documents.worldbank.org/en/publication…