Safety, Security & Environment

This workshop has been designed specifically to address the stated need and support its participants with necessary skills and knowledge to meet with the requirements of the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework.

Disasters appear on the news headlines nearly every single day. During the last couple of decades, the impact of disasters has shown an upward trend causing widespread losses and human suffering. Therefore, directing increased efforts towards disaster risk management with a focus on hazard and vulnerability risk assessment and elements-at-risk mapping has become vital.

Access to WASH is a prerequisite for health, contributes to the development of livelihoods, and helps create more resilient communities. Currently, around 2.2 billion people are deprived of safely managed drinking water, while 4.2 billion lack safely managed sanitation services.

Rapid Urbanization and Increased Consumption of goods have turned waste management into a critical challenge of 21st Century.

Occupational Safety Standards stand for the protection of workers across numerous sectors, guarding their health and overall well-being through communicating hazard identification and risk assessment measures.

Recycling and Disposal Management of Waste has become crucial for contemporary world, as traditional methods turn out to be ineffective for managing clinical, agricultural, industrial and municipal waste, depleting natural resources across the globe.

Safeguards Policies are indispensable instruments while attempting to intercept unmerited harm to the community and the surrounding environment throughout the development process.

Oceans and Seas are the largest ecosystems on our planet. They play a crucial role not only in climate regulation but for the development of the world economy as well.

Contemporary world has been challenged with the issue of water resource scarcity that is exacerbated by growing pressure of increasing population along with industrial and farming needs.