International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (WB)
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People (128)
Rafik Hirji
IA Project Coordinator/Task Manager
Fathi Ben-Slimane
Water and Sanitation Program-Fianancial Analyst
Senai Alemu
Sr. Water Resources Management Specialist
Marc Juhel
Lead Transport Specialist
S. Nedret Durutan
Project Task Team Leader
Luiz Azevedo
Water Resources Engineer
Christopher Crepin
GEF Africa Regional Coordinator
Emilia Battaglini
GEF ECA Regional Coordinator
Ellen Tynan
Environmental Specialist
Anatoly Krutov
Operations Officer
Hans Ibrekk
Senior Environmental Specialist
Tracy Hart
GEF International Waters Technical Specialist / Senior Environmental Specialist
Krisztina Kiss
Senior Economist
Karin Kemper
Senior Water Resources Specialist
Inesis Kiskis
Senior Environmental Specialist
Ariel Dinar
Task Team Leader
Nicole Glineur
Senior Environmental Specialist/Task Team Leader
Vahid Alavian
Senior Water Resources Specialist
Ian Shuker
Task Team Leader
Jocelyne Albert
Sr. Environmental Specialist
Mohammed Bekhechi
Sr. Counsel
Doina Petrescu
Task team leader
Marea E. Hatziolos
Senior Coastal and Marine Specialist
Tony Garvey
Water Resources Advisor
Manuel Marino
Task Team Leader
Aziz Bouzaher
Senior Natural Resource Economist
Kari Homanen
Project Task Team Leader
Rita Cestti
Senior Water Resources Economist
Lars Vidaeus
GEF Executive Coordinator
Piotr Krzyzanowski
Senior Environmental Specialist
Robin Broadfield
Senior Regional Coordinator
Liping Jiang
Senior Water Resources Specialist and Task Team Leader
W. Franklin Cardy
Water Resources Management Specialist
Aleksandar Nacev
Project Task Team Leader
Christoph Pusch
Task Team Leader
John Bryant Collier
Operations Officer
Ethel Sennhauser
Senior Environmental Specialist
Susanne Leloup
Consultant
William Leeds-Lane
Natural Resource Management Specialist
Francisco Pichon
Task Manager
Usamah Dabbagh
Task Manager
Tijen Arin
Economist
Leonard Abrams
Senior Water Resources Specialist
Greg J Browder
Water Resources Specialist
Darejan Kapanadze
Senior Environmental Specialist
William Sutton
Task Team Leader
Barbara Letachowicz (IBRD)
Task Team Leader
Agness Kiss
Task Team Leader
Usaid El-Hanbali
Task Team Leader
Anna Georgieva
Agriculture Sector Projects Officer
Vera Matusevich
Agricultural Specialist
Stephen W. Bailey
World Bank Team Leader
Garry Charlier
World Bank Team Leader
Tsutsumi Toshiro
World Bank team leader
William Kingdom
World Bank Team Leader
Takuyo Kamata
World Bank Team Leader
Weiguo Zhou
Sr. Operations Officer
Ernst Lutz
Senior Economist
Seema Manghee
Senior Financial Analyst
Dahlia Lotayef
Senior GEF Operations Coordinatory
Johannes Grijsen
Senior Water Resources Management Specialist
Abel Mejia
Sector Manager
Malcolm Jansen
Senior Environmentalist
Todd Johnson
Specialist-Climate Change Focal Point
Ian Noble
Advisor - Climate Change Focal Point
Hatim Hajj
Lead Transportation Specialist
Rita Klees
Senior Environmental Specialist
Francois Le Gall
Senior Livestock Specialist
Peter Dewees
Natural Resource Management Specialist
Elsie Garfield
GEF Regional Coordinator
MARTINS TAVARES LUIZ CLAUDIO
Senior Water & Sanitation Specialist
Takao Ikegami Ikegami
Task team leader
Vesna Francic
Task team leader
Shelly McMillan
Task team leader
Karin Shepardson
Task Team Leader
John Virdin
Director
Michael Webster
Water and Sanitation Specialist
Mara Warwick
Chief Technical Advisor
Paul Kriss
Senior Economist
Dr. Marcus Wishart
Senior Water Resource Specialist
Suhail J. S. Jme’An
Task Team Leader
Guy Alaerts
lead water Resource Specialist
Stjepan Gabric
Senior Project Officer
Maria Isabel Janqueira Braga
Consultant
Vera Dugandzic
Senior Operations Officer
Ruxandra Floroiu
Senior Environmental Engineer
Sanyu Lutalo
Project Task Team Leader
Mirjana Karahasanovic
Operations Officer
Hung Duy Le
Senior Operations Officer
Paola Agostini
Project Task Team Leader
Sergio Margulis
Project Task Team Leader
Claire Kfouri
Task Team Leader
Maged Mahmoud Hamed
Task Team Leader
Kanta Kumari
Task Team Leader
Meeta Sehgal
Project Officer
Ann Jeannette Glauber
Senior Environmental Specialist
Xavier Chauvot De Beauchene
Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist
John Fraser Stewart
Senior Natural Resources Specialist
Sophie Sherrmann
Environmental Specialist
Cesar Niculescu
Senior Environmental Specialist and Task Team Leader
Mustapha Benmaamar
Lead Transport Economist
Heba Yaken Aref Ahmed
Operations Analyst
Christina Leb
Senior Water Resource Specialist
Anna Cestari
Senior Water Specialist
Projects (121)
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closed
World Water Vision - Water and Nature
preparation
Volta River Basin Strategic Action Programme Implementation Project
active
Marine and Coastal Environment Management Project (MACEMP)
closed
Western Indian Ocean Marine Highway Development and Coastal and Marine Contamination Prevention Project
closed
Senegal River Basin Water and Environmental Management Programme
closed
Community Agriculture and Watershed Management
cancelled
Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study Program
closed
Livestock Waste Management in East Asia
closed
Turkey: Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea
closed
MED: Sustainable Governance and Knowledge Generation
closed
Ship-Generated Waste Management
preparation
LME-AF Strategic Partnership for Sustainable Fisheries Management in the Large Marine Ecosystems in Africa (PROGRAM)
closed
Western Indian Ocean Islands Oil Spill Contingency Planning
closed
Ningbo Water and Environment Project - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia
closed
World Bank-GEF Investment Fund for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Partnership, Tranche 1, 1st Allocation
preparation
World Bank-GEF Investment Fund for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Partnership, Tranche 1, 2nd Installment
closed
Coastal Cities Pollution Control (APL 2)
preparation
MED Mediterranean Environmental Sustainable Development Program "Sustainable MED"
closed
Reversal of Land and Water Degradation Trends in the Lake Chad Basin Ecosystem
active
Second Natural Resources Management Project
closed
Integrated Water and Ecosystems Management Project
closed
Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS)
closed
Coastal Cities Environment and Sanitation Project - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia
closed
Water Quality Protection Project - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea
closed
Poland: Rural Environmental Protection Project (REPP)
closed
Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
closed
West Africa Regional Fisheries Program APL B1
closed
West Africa Regional Fisheries Program in Ghana
closed
Huai River Basin Marine Pollution Reduction
closed
MED Integrated Coastal Zone Management-Mediterranean Coast
closed
Global Partnership with Fisheries Industry for the Sustainability of Living Aquatic Resources
cancelled
Regional Technical Assistance and Capacity Building for the Promotion of Treated Wastewater Reuse in the Mediterranean /MENA Countries
closed
Kenya Coastal Development Project
closed
First South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and Shared Growth Project (SWIOFish 1)
active
West Africa Regional Fisheries Program SOP C1
active
SIP-Equatorial Africa Deposition Network (EADN)
preparation
PAS GEF Pacific Alliance for Sustainability
preparation
Development Market Place 2009: Adaptation to Climate Change (DM 2009)
closed
Addressing Transboundary Environmental Issues in the Caspian Environment Programme (CEP)
closed
Croatia: Agricultural Pollution Control Project - under the Strategic Partnership Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea
closed
Strengthening Capacity for Global Knowledge-Sharing in International Waters (IW:LEARN)
closed
Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building for Management
closed
Serbia: Reduction of Enterprise Nutrient Discharges Project (RENDR) (under the WB-GEF Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Black Sea/Danube Basin)
closed
Environmental Protection and Sustainable Integrated Management of the Guarani Aquifer
closed
Lake Victoria Environmental Management
closed
Reversing Land and Water Degradation Trends in the Niger River Basin
closed
Nile Transboundary Environmental Action Project, Phase I
preparation
Meso-American Barrier Reef System II
closed
SIP-Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project II
closed
Wider Caribbean Initiative for Ship-Generated Waste
closed
Shanghai Agricultural and Non-Point Pollution Reduction project (SANPR) - under WB/GEF Strategic Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia
preparation
Senegal River Basin Climate Change Resilience Development Project
closed
Ocean Partnerships for Sustainable Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation - Models for Innovation and Reform
closed
Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Strategic Ecosystem Management
closed
Strengthening Global Capacity to Sustain Transboundary Waters: The International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network (IW:LEARN), Operational Phase
closed
Lake Ohrid Management
closed
Sustainable Management of Fish Resources - under the Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa
closed
Lake Skadar-Shkodra Integrated Ecosystem Management
closed
Control of Eutrophication, Hazardous Substances and Related Measures for Rehabilitating the Black Sea Ecosystem: Phase 1
closed
Hungary: Reduction of Nutrient Discharges - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea
closed
Guangdong-Pearl River Delta Urban Environment
closed
Romania: Hazards Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Project (HRMEPP)
closed
Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republic of Croatia: Neretva and Trebisnjica Management Project - Under Investment Fund for the Mediterranean Sea LME Partnership
active
Coastal Resources for Sustainable Development: Mainstreaming the Application of Marine Spatial Planning Strategies, Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use
preparation
Adriatic Sea Environmental Pollution Control Project (I)
closed
Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis and Strategic Action Program Development for the Lake Victoria Basin
preparation
Mainstreaming Integrated Water and Environment Management
closed
Regional Coordination on Improved Water Resources Management and Capacity Building Horizontal Adaptable Programmatic Programme (H-APL)(TA)
closed
Alexandria Coastal Zone Management Project (ACZM)
active
MED Enhanced Water Resources Management
cancelled
MED Coastal Rivers and Orontes River Basins Water Resources Management Project
active
MED Greater Tunis Treated Wastewater Discharge in the Mediterranean Sea.
closed
SP-SFIF: West Africa Regional Fisheries Program (WARFP)
closed
Marine Electronic Highway Demonstration
closed
Oil Pollution Management Project for the Southwest Mediterranean Sea
closed
Towards a Lake Basin Management Initiative and a Contribution to the Third World Water Forum: Sharing Experiences and Early Lessons in GEF and non-GEF Lake Basin Management Projects
active
Groundwater Governance: A Global Framework for Country Action
closed
Danube/Black Sea Basin Strategic Partnership on Nutrient Reduction, Phase I
preparation
LME-EA Scaling Up Partnership Investments for Sustainable Development of the Large Marine Ecosystems of East Asia and their Coasts (PROGRAM)
preparation
ARCTIC GEF-Russian Federation Partnership on Sustainable Environmental Management in the Arctic under a Rapidly Changing Climate (Arctic Agenda 2020)
cancelled
Moldova: Environmental Infrastructure Project - under Strategic Partnership Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River Basin and the Black Sea
closed
Manila Third Sewerage Project (MTSP) - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia
active
Romania: Integrated Nutrient Pollution Control Project-under the WB-GEF Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea
closed
Coastal Contamination Prevention and Sustainable Fisheries Management
closed
Liaoning Medium Cities Infrastructure - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia
closed
Second Shandong Environment - under WB/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the LME of East Asia
closed
Romania: Agricultural Pollution Control Project - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea
closed
Mekong River Basin Water Utilization Project
closed
Gulf of Aqaba Environmental Action Plan
closed
Ship Waste Disposal
closed
Hai River Basin Integrated Water Resources Management
closed
Moldova: Agricultural Pollution Control Project - under WB-GEF Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea
closed
Georgia: Agricultural Research, Extension, Training Project (ARET)
closed
Baltic Sea Regional Project (BSRP), Phase I
closed
Applying Knowledge Management to Scale up Partnership Investments for Sustainable Development of Large Marine Ecosystems of East Asia and their Coasts
preparation
Guangdong Agricultural Pollution Control
active
Capturing Coral Reef and Related Ecosystem Services (CCRES)
preparation
Sustainable Groundwater Management in SADC Member States
active
West Balkans Drina River Basin Management
closed
Bulgaria: Wetland Restoration and Pollution Reduction Project - component of Danube/Black Sea Strategic Partnership: Nutrient Reduction Investment Fund
closed
Nile Transboundary Environmental Action Project, Tranche 2
preparation
World Bank/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the Large Marine Ecosystems of East Asia (Tranche 1 of 3 tranches)
preparation
World Bank/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the Large Marine Ecosystems of East Asia (Tranche 1, Installment 2) (from November 05 WP)
closed
Danube/Black Sea Basin Strategic Partnership - Nutrient Reduction Investment Fund: Tranche 2
closed
Strategic Partnership for Nutrient Reduction in the Danube River and Black Sea - World Bank-GEF Nutrient Reduction Investment Fund: Tranche 3
closed
EBRD/GEF Environmental Credit Facility (formerly entitled Slovenia: National Pollution Reduction Project)
closed
Water and Environmental Management in the Aral Sea Basin
closed
Regional Activities of the Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub Saharan Africa, Tranche 1
preparation
SP-SFIF: Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa (Tranche 1, Installment 1)
closed
Strategic Partnership for a Sustainable Fisheries Investment Fund in the Large Marine Ecosystems of Sub-Saharan Africa (Tranche 1, Installment 2)
closed
Southern African Development Community - SADC - Groundwater and Drought Management Project
closed
Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP)
active
SIP-Eastern Nile Transboundary Watershed Management in Support of ENSAP Implementation
active
The Coastal Fisheries Initiative Challenge Fund: Enabling Sustainable Private Sector Investment in Fisheries (CFI-CF)
active
Regional Partnership for African Fisheries Policy Reform (RAFIP)
active
West Africa Regional Fisheries Program, Additional Financing
active
Caribbean Regional Oceanscape Project
closed
Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation into the Operation of the Tourism and Fisheries Sectors in the Archipelagos of Panama
closed
Namibian Coast Conservation and Management Project
closed
Sustainable Financing and Management of Eastern Caribbean Marine Ecosystems
active