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WASHINGTON, 12 de janeiro de 2017 – Carlos Végh é o novo economista-chefe do Banco Mundial para a América Latina e o Caribe. Végh, de nacionalidade uruguaia, supervisionará uma equipe de economistas encarregada de proporcionar liderança intelectual, análise econômica e assessoria sobre as questões de desenvolvimento enfrentadas pela Região da América Latina e do Caribe (ALC). "É uma grande honra assumir este cargo e somar meu aporte à liderança intelectual de meus antecessores", afirmou Végh. "Apesar do significativo avanço econômico e social nos últimos anos, a região provavelmente enfrentará tempos difíceis no futuro próximo. No longo prazo, a ALC precisará consolidar os ganhos passados e buscar novos avanços em uma ampla gama de áreas. Espero poder contribuir para esse processo." Végh, que assumirá o posto no dia 1º de fevereiro, é atualmente  professor da cadeira Fred H. Sanderson de Economia Internacional na Escola de Estudos Avançados Internacionais Johns Hopkins (SAIS) e Pesquisador Associado no Escritório Nacional de Pesquisa Econômica dos Estados Unidos (NBER). Anteriormente, foi professor de economia e vice-presidente de Estudos de Graduação da Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles (UCLA), e antes disso presidente do Programa de Estudos Comparativos e Tópicos do Centro Latino-Americano da UCLA. Végh substitui o equatoriano Augusto de la Torre, que foi economista-chefe para a ALC desde setembro de 2008 e se aposentou no final do ano passado. As pesquisas de Végh sobre política monetária e fiscal em países emergentes e em desenvolvimento são de grande influência e são apresentadas com regularidade na imprensa financeira internacional. Carlos Végh contribuiu para vários relatórios do Banco Mundial, como o relatório Perspectivas Econômicas Globais. Carlos Végh também foi pesquisador visitante no Banco Central do Chile, no Banco da República da Colômbia e no Banco do México. Durante as décadas de 1980 e 1990, ocupou vários cargos de pesquisa no Fundo Monetário Internacional e no Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, em Washington D.C. Atualmente, trabalha como editor-chefe da revista Economía, uma publicação da Associação Econômica Latino-Americana e Caribenha. Carlos Végh já ocupou outros postos editoriais em periódicos especializados como IMF Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics e Journal of International Economics, entre outros. É Doutor em Economia pela Universidade de Chicago e Bacharel em Economia pela American University, em Washington D.C., e pela Universidade da República, no Uruguai. — Saiba mais sobre o trabalho do Banco Mundial na América Latina e no Caribe: www.worldbank.org/lac Visite-nos no Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/worldbank Atualize-se via Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BancoMundialLAC Assista o nosso canal no YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/BancoMundialLAC  

IBRD Credit: US $55 million equivalent Terms: Maturity = 33 years, Grace = 6 years Project ID: P153366 Project Description: The objective of the loan is to increase levels of compliance with tax and customs obligations in Guatemala by improving the transparency, Integrity and Institutional Development in the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT), the strengthening of Tax Collection Functions in Internal Revenues and Customs and the Strengthening of Integrated Tax Intelligence and Tax Enforcement. Contact: Àngels Masó, (503)7860.8019, amaso@worldbank.org For more information, please visit here: http://www.bancomundial.org/es/country/guatemala  

WASHINGTON, January 18, 2017 – The World Bank Board of Directors approved two loans totaling US$ 100 million yesterday to improve the transparency and efficiency of the tax administration in Guatemala and to improve urban infrastructure and prevent violence in the Gran Ciudad del Sur Commonwealth in the south. “These projects are extremely important for Guatemala since they will support two key pillars of the country’s development: to improve the tax administration and to reduce violence, which in turn are crucial for reducing poverty,” said Guatemalan Finance Minister Julio Héctor Estrada. The “Project for Tax Administration Transparency and Efficiency,” with a loan of US$55 million, will work to increase compliance with tax and customs obligations by individual and corporate contributors. To this end, the project will support the transparency, integrity and institutional development of the Tax Administration Authority (SAT), and will strengthen tax collection mechanisms and customs operations. Another objective is to strengthen comprehensive fiscal intelligence, control processes and the new tax appeal system, all with a view to improving institutional efficiency and transparency. This will contribute to increasing tax collection. Guatemala has one of the lowest tax-collection rates in Latin America and the world (10.2 percent of GDP, in comparison with an average of 16.9 percent for Latin America and the Caribbean).   Additionally, the “Project for Urban Infrastructure and Violence Prevention,” will allocate US$45 million to better living conditions in the Gran Ciudad del Sur Commonwealth. Specifically, this project seeks to improve access to services and basic infrastructure and to mitigate the key risk factors for crime and violence. According to World Bank statistics, violence cost Guatemala 10 percent of its GDP in 2014. “While Guatemala faces major challenges such as high rates of poverty and inequality, the country has enormous potential to address its challenges and to offer a better future to its citizens. Projects such as those approved strive to provide better opportunities to vulnerable populations,” said Homa-Zahra Fotouhi, World Bank representative in Guatemala. Planned activities include small-scale investments in urban and peri-urban infrastructure; capacity-building of municipalities; implementation of baseline surveys to identify the most affected communities; improvement of municipal records offices; strengthening of inter-municipal coordination; and, support to crime and violence observatories. Contacts: Washington: Marcela Sánchez-Bender, +1-202-473-5863, msanchezbender@worldbank.org Guatemala: Àngels Masó, (503) 7860.8019 amaso@worldbank.org Learn more about the work of the World Bank in Latin America and the Caribbean: www.worldbank.org/lac   Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/worldbank Be updated via Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BancoMundialLAC   For our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/BancoMundialLAC   News Release 2017/147/LAC  

‘Vidas ocupadas’ de José Pablo García ilustra las dificultades para acceder al agua y medios de vida seguros en Palestina

Organization: The Brooke Hospital for Animals
Country: Nicaragua
Closing date: 05 Feb 2017

Project background

Brooke entered a partnership with Portuguese NGO OIKOS in Nicaragua in April 2013. The project was extended in April 2015 for a further 12 months in order to assess the case for setting up a representative office for Brooke in Central America. This review in October 2015 concluded that a recommendation should be made to the Board of Trustees to establish a Branch office, subject to Government registration, and to invest in a full Brooke programme. The pilot project was extended in April 2016 for a fourth year, to allow time for the Board of Trustees to consider and approve the proposal and for the Government registration process to be completed.

The focus of Brooke in Nicaragua has been on improving animal welfare of working equids in 14 rural and semi urban communities. The main areas of work have been community engagement with participatory approaches for the horse owners and their communities; service provision, providing capacity building to equine service providers and advocacy.

The Brooke/OIKOS pilot project will close in March 2017. Brooke’s contract with OIKOS will end on March 31 2017, as will the contracts of staff working on the Brooke/OIKOS project, who are all employed by OIKOS.

1.1. Specific Objectives for the project: April 2016 – March 2017

Goal: Improve the animal welfare of 543 working equines focusing on four aspects of: Body Condition Score (BCS), hooves, wounds, ecto-parasites, and heat stress.

Objective 1: Improvement of knowledge and practice of those local service providers identified as relevant

Objective 2: Improvement of knowledge and practice of owners/users about feeding, prevention of heat stress, wound treatment and hoof maintenance to acceptable levels

Advocacy specific objective 1: Draft regulations for Law 747 adequately include working equine welfare according to OIE standards.

Advocacy specific objective 2: Specific decision-makers and IPSA are convinced of the importance to include working horses into the existing traceability programme.

Advocacy specific objective 3: Universities and technical schools which offer a career of veterinary medicine recognize the need of emphasizing more animal welfare and equine medicine in their curricula.

Advocacy specific objective 4: Town councils of Brooke’s intervention areas put equine welfare on the agenda.

1 Scope of the evaluation

The main objective of the evaluation is to provide accountability and make sure learning from the “pilot” is used to improve future programme design.

The specific objectives of the evaluation are:

· To identify any successes or sustainable interventions at the end of the pilot project period in March 2017, any significant changes in the welfare of animals or changes in the stakeholders;

· To review the design and relevance of the pilot project. To find out if the existing management and team structure was the right one and if it had the intended outcome;

· To gather any lessons learnt from the intervention that could be applied to other programmes following the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) criteria.

It will require the following deliverables:

1. Inception Report outlining the evaluation methodology to be used by the evaluator and a final work plan;

2. Stakeholder workshop: The evaluator shall facilitate a learning workshop in country to present the draft report and the findings of the evaluation to the project staff and key stakeholders; to gather feedback on the findings and where possible build consensus on recommendations;

3. Draft evaluation report with specific recommendations; lessons learnt and good practices;

4. Final evaluation report (max. 30 pages) incl. executive summary.

Gender equality issues shall be explicitly addressed throughout the evaluation activities of the consultant and all outputs including final reports or events need to be gender mainstreamed.

2 Evaluation arrangements and professional requirements

The evaluator will conduct a final evaluation between 20^th February and 5^th April 2017. The assignment is for approximately 18 work-days during that period. The assignment will require the country office to be visited and Brooke project staff will help in organizing accommodation, arranging meetings and transportation. It is anticipated that the evaluator will visit communities for a process of participatory evaluation with project stakeholders without project staff accompaniment.

Selection of the evaluator will be done by the Performance and Evaluation team and will be based on the strength of the qualifications provided by potential candidates through their expressions of interest for the assignment.

How to apply:

Interested candidates should include in the expression of interest:

1. An updated CV;

2. A detailed presentation of their background and experience in community engagement and technical skills development and application, highlighting significant field experience in the evaluation of development projects relevant to this assignment, which may be livestock / animal welfare related or more generally livelihoods focused;

3. A statement of availability for the entire duration of the assignment;

4. A daily consultancy fee in USD;

5. Two work samples.

Applicants should have a

Relevant degree / equivalent experience related to the evaluation to be undertaken;

Significant experience in coordination, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects;

Skills set combining both participatory evaluation techniques and more formal quantitative data analysis

Good knowledge of the Nicaragua context;

Ability to manage the available time and resources and to work to tight deadlines;

Independence from the parties involved;

Excellent written and oral communication skills in Spanish and English.

The deadline to submit expressions of interest for the evaluation is by close of business on 5^th February. Applicants should submit a complete expression of interest (including all 5 elements highlighted above) via e-mail to mae.tortajadasuils@thebrooke.org and indicate: ‘Final evaluation of Brooke’s Nicaragua pilot project’ in the e-mail’s subject line.

Organization: Plan
Country: Spain
Closing date: 06 Feb 2017

Plan International is searching for an HR Recruiter & Development Officer (HR-R&DO) with previous working experience in the NGO sector (field experience included), knowledge of the HR staffing needs in the NGO sector as well as of the Performance Management System. The candidate shall have a high command of English. French will be an asset.

Overview

Plan is an international child centered community development organization working in 70 countries, 51 of which are developing countries. With a focus on long term sustainable development, Plan works in a participative way with children and families across a range of programmes including education, health, household economic security, protection and water/sanitation. Plan also engages in humanitarian work. Advocacy cuts across all programmes.

Established in 2001, Plan Spain is a dynamic organization that supports Plan’s work worldwide, with a particular focus on Child protection. Funding is received from a variety of sources including child sponsorship, Spanish Government and Regional Governments and also multilateral donors (UE, UN).

In addition, Plan Spain strives to raise awareness of development issues through development education, advocacy, the media and events.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Leading and organizing, in coordination with the HR Manager, the recruitment processes in order to ensure that all vacancies are covered by using different recruitment sources (job announcements in dedicated web sites, working with HR/headhunting companies, social media, etc.), making interviews and other tests (language tests, competencies tests, contact of professional references), reporting about every candidate, following all the candidates all along the recruitment process.

• Contributing to the creation of an HR database of candidates.

• Managing, in coordination with the HR Manager, the performance/appraisal system in following internal deadlines.

• Elaborating and managing the training and development plan in line with the needs identified in the team´s performance/appraisal, as well as those identified at the organizational level.

• Contacting and managing the training providers.

• Organizing the induction/orientation of new staff (making sure that they meet all the departments).

• Coordinating the activities of the HR interns, as well as the volunteers.

• Contacting with other PLAN INTERNATIONAL departments in order to follow up on any HR needs.

Contribute to the development and implementation of the different processes of the HR department and its consequent action plan, in all and each different area comprises by the HR department.

Attributes for the role

• Great communication and relationships skills.

• Great team player skills.

• Deep knowledge of the HR staffing needs in the NGO Sector.

• Experience in multicultural working environments.

• Deep knowledge of performance/appraisal systems.

• Deep knowledge of the international cooperation sector, project cycle management and renewable energies.

Desirable Skills

• 5 years of professional experience in recruiting staff at the “non profit” sector (national and international positions in development cooperation and humanitarian aid).

• Experience in International Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid sector.

• High level of oral and written English.

• Availability to travel.

Other requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree. Post graduate studies in HR or/and International Cooperation will be valuable.
• French knowledge will be valuable.

How to apply:

Applicants should have a valid work permit at the time of applying to enable them to work in Spain.

The candidates must send application and cover letter to recruiting@plan-international.org with the reference HR-R&DO.

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WASHINGTON, 12 de enero de 2017 – Carlos Végh, de nacionalidad uruguaya, es el nuevo economista jefe del Banco Mundial para América Latina y el Caribe. Végh supervisará un equipo de economistas encargados de proporcionar liderazgo intelec…