Film Screening as part of the Environmental Film Festival on Monday, March 17 at 2:30pm in J1-050

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The World Bank Sustainable Development Network

invite you to a film screening as part of the 16th Annual Washington
DC Environmental Film Festival
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| | Worldwide, more | |
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| | slums, with as many | |
| | as one million of | |
| | them in Nairobi's | |
| | Kibera slum. | |
| | Kibera?s residents | |
| | struggle every | |
| | second to stay | |
| | alive, having to | |
| | scrape a living | |
| | outside the formal | |
| | economy, yet | |
| | somehow they | |
| | survive. | |
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| | SLUM SURVIVORS | |
| | tells the stories | |
| | of six people, like | |
| | you and me, living | |
| | in Kibera and their | |
| | remarkable courage | |
| | in the face of | |
| | adverse poverty. | |
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Monday, March 17, 2008
2:30pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050

For non Bank staff, please RSVP by sending an email to
infoshopevents@worldbank.org
Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes
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MODERATED BY
Eric Chinje
Manager, External Affairs, Africa Region, World Bank
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DISCUSSED BY
Emilia Freire
Senior Adviser, Finance, Economics & Urban Development, World Bank

Barjor Mehta
Senior Urban Specialist, World Bank

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The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capitol
The Environmental Film Festival opens for its 16th year in
Washington, D.C. to play a role in addressing environmental issues
and challenges through the artistry of film. Illuminating some of
earth?s most critical environmental issues?the availability of
clean, fresh water, our energy future, the accelerating pace of
climate change and the environmental impact of war?the Festival
presents a broad spectrum of films that seek to inspire change in
our world. The program includes 115 films from 30 countries for 12
days in March. Twenty-seven filmmakers will be on hand to discuss
their films along with 86 environmental experts and special guests.
For more information, visit: http://www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org/

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
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Presentation of "Adapting to Climate Change: What Can We Actually Do?"

The World Bank Public Information Center and InfoShop
& Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency

invite you to a presentation

Adapting to Climate Change:
What Can We Actually Do?

The Experience of the UK and What We Can Learn From It

Chris West, head of the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP), will discuss his
experience working with different actors and agencies in the UK to identify
concrete approaches to adapting to climate change. He and his team at UKCIP
have been working since 2002 at making climate research useful to decision
makers. In the process, they have helped develop tools and programs for local
governments, including the city of London; for UK businesses in general, and for
builders and developers in particular; and for several other agencies.

A particularly useful contribution has been a report entitled Climate
Adaptation: Risk, Uncertainty and Decision-making that provides a step-by-step
framework to help planners, businesses, and government assess the risk posed by
climate change and work out how best to respond.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:30 - 3:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

Please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

INTRODUCED BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency, World Bank
Prior to his current position, Mr. Mitra was Chief of country operations for
Russia during the mid 1990s and then served as Director of the Poverty Reduction
and Economic Management department in the Europe and Central Asia region at the
World Bank. He has published widely on public economics, macroeconomics, and
development economics.

PRESENTED BY
Chris West
Director, UK Climate Impacts Programme
Mr. West is the Director of UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) and a Senior
Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University. He
trained as a zoologist and joined the Natural Environment Research Council in
1991, where he worked on marine science and on international research
co-operation.

COMMENTS BY
Ko Barrett
Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief, Climate Assessments Services,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ms. Barrett is the Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief of the Climate
Assessments Services division of the United States government's National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Prior to that she was the Director of
the Climate Change Program at the U.S. Agency for International Development,
where she managed climate-related activities in more than 40 countries and
regions around the world.

Dennis Ojima
Senior Scholar, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment
Mr. Ojima is a senior scholar at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and
the Environment, where he is involved in the Global Change Program. He is also a
senior research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at
Colorado State University. His research areas include global change effects on
ecosystem dynamics, and adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change.
He was among the IPCC set of contributors awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
UKCIP helps organizations assess how they might be affected by climate change,
so they can prepare for its impacts. It was set up by the British Government in
1997 and is based at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment. It works
by promoting stakeholder-led impact research and developing a range of common
tools and datasets to help organizations adapt to the impacts of unavoidable
climate change. These tools and reports discussing challenges of and
methodologies for coping with climate change are available at:
http://www.ukcip.org.uk/resources/

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and serves as a
forum for substantial debate on international development. Our extensive events
program consists of more than 250 events over the past two years and has hosted
many internationally recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama,
Jeffrey Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly Fiorina.
The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible space at headquarters and
provides internal and external audiences with over 15,000 titles published by
the World Bank, international organizations, and other publishers on development
issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
Comments about the events program: http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

Presentation of "Adapting to Climate Change: What Can We Actually Do?"

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Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency

invite you to a presentation
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| | Chris West, head of the UK Climate Impacts |
| | Programme (UKCIP), will discuss his experience |
| | working with different actors and agencies in |
| | the UK to identify concrete approaches to |
| | adapting to climate change. He and his team |
| | at UKCIP have been working since 2002 at |
| | making climate research useful to decision |
| | makers. In the process, they have helped |
| | develop tools and programs for local |
| | governments, including the city of London; for |
| | UK businesses in general, and for builders and |
| | developers in particular; and for several |
| | other agencies. |
| | |
| | A particularly useful contribution has been a |
| | report entitled Climate Adaptation: Risk, |
| | Uncertainty and Decision-making that provides |
| | a step-by-step framework to help planners, |
| | businesses, and government assess the risk |
| | posed by climate change and work out how best |
| | to respond. |
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
1:30 - 3:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium JB1-080
701 18th Street NW
Washington, DC

For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

INTRODUCED BY
Pradeep Mitra
Chief Economist, Europe and Central Asia Region Vice Presidency,
World Bank
Prior to his current position, Mr. Mitra was Chief of country
operations for Russia during the mid 1990s and then served as
Director of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management department
in the Europe and Central Asia region at the World Bank. He has
published widely on public economics, macroeconomics, and
development economics.

PRESENTED BY
Chris West
Director, UK Climate Impacts Programme
Mr. West is the Director of UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) and
a Senior Research Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at
Oxford University. He trained as a zoologist and joined the Natural
Environment Research Council in 1991, where he worked on marine
science and on international research co-operation.

COMMENTS BY
Ko Barrett
Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief, Climate Assessments Services,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ms. Barrett is the Acting Deputy Director/Division Chief of the
Climate Assessments Services division of the United States
government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Prior to that she was the Director of the Climate Change Program at
the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she managed
climate-related activities in more than 40 countries and regions
around the world.

Dennis Ojima
Senior Scholar, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment
Mr. Ojima is a senior scholar at the Heinz Center for Science,
Economics, and the Environment, where he is involved in the Global
Change Program. He is also a senior research scientist at the
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at Colorado State
University. His research areas include global change effects on
ecosystem dynamics, and adaptation and mitigation strategies to
climate change. He was among the IPCC set of contributors awarded
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
About UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP)
UKCIP helps organizations assess how they might be affected by
climate change, so they can prepare for its impacts. It was set up
by the British Government in 1997 and is based at the Oxford
University Centre for the Environment. It works by promoting
stakeholder-led impact research and developing a range of common
tools and datasets to help organizations adapt to the impacts of
unavoidable climate change. These tools and reports discussing
challenges of and methodologies for coping with climate change are
available at: http://www.ukcip.org.uk/resources/

About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0

What's New at the InfoShop, February 2008

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Come and visit the InfoShop. There is always something new. The titles below
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Population Movements, Conflicts, and Displacements in Nigeria, edited by Toyin
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Anatomy of an African Tragedy: Political, Economic and Foreign Policy Crisis in
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Multiparty Democracy and Political Change: Constraints to Democratization in
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Washing the Negro White: The Evolution of Thinking on African Economic
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Nigerian History, Politics and Affairs: The Collected Essays of Adiele Afigbo,
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Oromia and Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict 1868-2004, by
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Eritrea: The Making of a Nation 1890-1991, by Redie Bereketeab. Red Sea Press.
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Africa's Challenge: Using Law for Good Governance and Development, edited by Ann
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Anatomy of South Africa: Who Holds the Power?, by Richard Calland. Zebra Books.
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The African Way: The Power of Interactive Leadership, by Mike Boon. Zebra Books.
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Politics in Francophone Africa, by Victor Le Vine. Lynne Reinner Publications.
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Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The Story of Unamsil, by 'Funmi Olonisakin. Lynne
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Reconstructing Economic Governance after Conflict in Resource-rich African
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Africa - Commodity Dependence, Resource Curse and Export Diversification:
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The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa 1960-2000, Volume 2: Country
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When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa, by Robert H.
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African Development Report 2007: Natural Resources for Sustainable Development
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REMINDER: Africa Environment Day 2008 on Monday, March 3

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The African Union Mission to the USA
&
The World Bank Group-IMF African Society

Cordially invite you to a panel discussion to commemorate the

Africa Environment Day 2008
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| Will Africa's Commitment to Global Environmental Agreement |
| Undermine its Economic Growth? |
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| Panelists will focus on the development sacrifices Africa will |
| have to make in adhering to |
| sound environmental policies which benefit the whole planet, and |
| will examine what benefits |
| Africa could possibly get in turn from the international |
| community. |
| |
| KEY NOTE SPEAKER |
| H.E. Amina Salum Ali |
| Permanent Representative to the African Union?s Mission to the |
| United States |
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| CHAIR |
| Beldina Auma |
| Chair, World Bank Group-IMF African Society |
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| PANELISTS |
| William Godfrey |
| President, The Environic Foundation International |
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| Herbert Acquay |
| Program Coordinator, Environment Team, Africa Region, World Bank |
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| Walter Lusigi |
| Senior Environmental Specialist, Global Environment Facility, |
| World Bank |
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| MODERATOR |
| John Mulaa |
| EXT, World Bank |
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Monday, March 3, 2008
12:00 - 2:00pm
World Bank H Building
Eugene H. Black Auditorium
600 19th Street N.W.

For non bank staff, please RSVP to infoshopevents@worldbank.org

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.

For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

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REMINDER: Launch of "Women and Nation-Building" presented at the InfoShop on March 3 at 2:00pm in J1-050

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OPCFC (Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group)
&
RAND Corporation

Invite you to a launch of a recent publication
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| | tremendous international energy during |
| | the past decades. Women and |
| | Nation-Building tackles the exceedingly |
| | complex task of assessing the |
| | multilayered development of women?s |
| | diverse roles in the post-conflict |
| | context. The author examines the role of |
| | women in the recent reconstruction |
| | activities in Afghanistan, while |
| | evaluating the effect of societal |
| | circumstances and nation-building |
| | processes on the status of female |
| | populations in post-conflict regions. |
| | Does women?s participation in |
| | nation-building make a difference to the |
| | post-conflict trajectories of very |
| | volatile societies? |
| | |
| | Women and Nation-Building presents |
| | compelling findings for policymakers, |
| | practitioners, and scholars concerned |
| | with both the academic and pragmatic |
| | implementation of a more engendered |
| | approach to nation-building. The book |
| | concludes that the steps necessary to |
| | strengthen nation-building activities |
| | include an emphasis on human security, |
| | establishing governance based on the |
| | principles of equity and the rule of |
| | law, and women?s early economic |
| | inclusion in reconstruction activities. |
| | Societies on a path toward equity and |
| | the rule of law are more peaceful and |
| | more prosperous, and the status of women |
| | is not merely a litmus test but an |
| | active agent in bringing about such an |
| | outcome. |
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Monday, March 3, 2008
2:00 - 3:30 pm
World Bank J Building, Room J1-050
701 18th Street, NW Washington, DC 20433

Note: This button will also add the event to your Lotus Notes
calendar
For non bank staff, please RSVP to InfoShopevents@worldbank.org

MODERATED BY
Markus Kostner
Adviser, Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries Group, OPCFC, World
Bank
Mr. Kostner joined the World Bank in 1999 as an Economist in the
Post-Conflict Unit. Since then he has held various positions in the
Bank, including Lead Social Development Specialist responsible for
coordinating the Bank?s work in conflict-affected countries in
Africa and Country Program Coordinator for West Bank and Gaza. He is
currently Acting Manager of the Fragile and Conflict-Affected
Countries Group.

PRESENTATION BY AUTHOR
Cheryl Benard
Ms. Benard is a senior political scientist with the RAND
Corporation. Islam and the Middle East have been strong themes in
Dr. Benard?s work. She has been the recipient of several awards,
including the Theodor Kery Prize for Socially Relevant Research and
the Donauland Prize for Nonfiction Writing, and her book
publications have been translated into many languages including
Turkish, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Hungarian,
Russian,Hebrew and Chinese.

PANEL DISCUSSANTS
Ian Bannon
Sector Manager, Fragile States, Conflict and Social Development,
Africa Region, World Bank
Mr. Bannon manages the fragile states and conflict unit in the
Africa Region. Prior to his current position, he managed the
Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit in the anchor where he
worked extensively on gender issues in conflict-affected settings.
His publications include Gender, Conflict and Development
(co-authored with Bouta and Frerks) and The Other Half of Gender:
Men's Issues in Development, co-edited with Maria Correia.

Pia Peeters
Senior Social Development Specialist, Africa Region, World Bank
Ms. Peeters currently leads the Learning for Equality, Access and
Peace (LEAP) Program. The overall aim of the LEAP Program is to
strengthen the impact of the Multi-Country Demobilization and
Reintegration Program (MDRP) in the greater great lakes region from
a gender perspective. Prior to working on gender and DDR, Ms.
Peeters worked on youth, conflict and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan
Africa. She recently completed analytical work on youth and labor
in Sierra Leone. Before joining the Sub-Saharan Africa region, Ms.
Peeters worked extensively on gender issues for the Latin American
and Caribbean Region, where her work centered on addressing gender
issues in Bank operations across a range of sectors.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop

Comments about the events program:

http://go.worldbank.org/TDG9T8O9K0