Le Pérou va élargir l’alimentation d'eau potable et d'installations sanitaires de base dans quelque de 380 localités rurales et petites villes situées dans les régions d’Apurímac, d’Ayacucho, de Cusco, de Huancavelica, et de Puno (les plus pauvres du pays), améliorant ainsi le quotidien d'environ 206 000 personnes qui n'ont pas du tout accès à ces services ou ne sont pas suffisamment desservies.
O Peru vai ampliar a oferta de água potável e saneamento básico em cerca de 380 comunidades rurais e pequenas cidades das regiões de Apurímac, Ayacucho, Cusco, Huancavelica e Puno — as mais pobres do país. O projeto beneficiará cerca de 206.000 pessoas que atualmente carecem de tais serviços ou os recebem de maneira precária.
The Inter-American Development Bank, the leading source of long-term lending for Latin America and the Caribbean, today announced its intention to increase its financing for renewable energy and climate-related projects to $3 billion a year by 2012.
O Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento, a principal fonte de empréstimos de longo prazo para a América Latina e o Caribe, anunciou hoje sua intenção de aumentar os financiamentos a projetos relacionados a energia renovável e clima, atingindo US$ 3 bilhões anuais em 2012.
Welcoming remarks…
· We’re here today as a result of the visionary ideas that leaders from across this hemisphere discussed a year ago at the 5th Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, where they agreed to move forward on an Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas.
The Board of Executive Directors of the Inter-American Development Bank announced the approval of an Account for the Administration of Donor Resources for Haiti, which may receive contributions totaling up to $100 million from the countries in the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).
UNASUR includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Mayors of 41 cities in Latin America and the Caribbean today established the Cities Alliance for Citizen Security, a regional dialogue network aimed at sharing experiences of innovation in violence and crime prevention and control, with an impact on quality of life and improved citizen security.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Customs Organization (WCO) and Guatemala’s Tax Administration Superintendence organized, together with other institutions, the Congress for Authorized Economic Operators on April 14 in Guatemala. During the event, the participants discussed security and competitiveness issues that will help them boost the region’s international trade advantage.
The Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund will hold May 6-7 in Mexico the conference RemesAmericas – Remittances for the Future, which will bring together government officials, financial executives and delegates from international organizations involved in migration issues.
A project backed by the U.S. NGO Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) and the Inter-American Development Bank’s Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) will help 500 families hit by the earthquake rebuild or repair their homes in the Haitian city of Cabaret.
In Cabaret, 30 kilometers north of Port-au-Prince, some 3,000 families lost their houses due to the January 12 earthquake. About 9,000 other families need to repair their damaged homes.
