| Funding source
| World Bank Group
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| Targeted countries
| Developing countries around the world
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| Programme objectives
What is the orientation of support offered to the country? (e.g. develop e-Health infrastructure, enhance skills for international cooperation, e-government…)
| The World Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030:
- End extreme poverty by decreasing the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day to no more than 3%,
- Promote shared prosperity by fostering the income growth of the bottom 40% for every country.
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| Programme description
| The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. The bank provides low-interest loans, zero to low-interest credits, and grants to developing countries. These support a wide array of investments in such areas as education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management. THe World Bank also provide or facilitate financing through trust fund partnerships with bilateral and multilateral donors.
The bank offers support to developing countries through policy advice, research and analysis, and technical assistance. To ensure that countries can access the best global expertise and help generate cutting-edge knowledge, the bank is constantly seeking to improve the way it shares its knowledge and engages with clients and the public at large.
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| Website and additional links
If relevant, indicate here where to find tender specifications, where to ask questions, …
| http://www.worldbank.org/
http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/Belarus-Snapshot.pdf
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| Status
Scheduled, on going…
| On going
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| Overall budget
| Since 1992, lending commitments to the Republic of Belarus have totalled USD 1.43 billion, grant financing – USD 28 million. Lending portfolio 2015 includes seven operations for a total amount of USD 938 million.
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| Maximum budget per candidate
| n/a
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| Contact
Entity responsible for the call, contact person…
| World Bank in Belarus
Gertzena 2A, 220030 Minsk
Republic of Belarus
+375 17 359 19 50
binfo@worldbank.org
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| Who can candidate?
Research labs, academics, SMEs, public authorities, industrial partners… Indicate also here illegibility criteria.
| Ministries and state committees, local administrations and governments, public and private companies, SMEs
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| What are the requirements for applying?
Consortium needed? International partners accepted?
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| Type of activity funded
Research, trials, …
| Development projects, infrastructure projects, investment projects, analytical and technical assistance
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| Link with ICT
Does the programme includes ICT directly or indirectly (e.g. as an enabling “infrastructure” but not as the main priority
| The program does not include ICT directly, but ICT projects can be provided with financial support on general terms.
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| Other useful information
| The World Bank is a catalyst of global knowledge and best practices in the development of ICTs. A South-South knowledge exchange between the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Belarus, “Together to the InfoSociety,” facilitated by the World Bank in June 2014, provided a platform to discuss Korea’s ICT experience in such sectors as health, land registration, and cyber security, as well as Belarus ICT sector development.
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