Linha de Crédito para Resiliência Urbana no Sul do Brasil
The proposed project aims to “promote urban resilience in the municipalities of Southern Brazil
States by increasing their access to financial and technical support aimed at mitigating and-or
avoiding disasters risks” (Pedroso, 2019).
The project aims to provide small and medium-sized municipalities in Southern Brazil access
to financing to promote urban resilience through investments in technical assistance and
infrastructure to address vulnerabilities such as floods, landslides, and coastal erosion.
(Pedroso, 2019).
IFI: World Bank
Medal: Silver
Positive impacts will happen especially in cities in the coastal area of the three states that form
Southern Brazil, as well as help cities with big rivers crossing them and the neighborhoods that
might be affected by these rivers. To have a bigger impact, the project could also provide
funding to cities to apply sustainable transportation solutions, such as bicycle paths for cyclists,
as well as providing incentives to adopt bicycles instead of cars.
Negative impacts can happen in many aspects, for example, a big problem in Brazil is
corruption and since municipalities will be responsible for hiring construction companies and
other required companies to perform the work, corruption within bidding companies can
happen, as it is already known in Brazil. In my understanding, a thorough description of how
the city might be penalized or lose the credit should be described in the project. All
environmental and social risks are already described in the project
Chile – Public Health Sector Support Project
The project objectives are: to improve efficiency and quality of health care service delivery to
the population served by the FONASA (National Health Fund) and strengthen the capacity of
the Minister of Health to manage the health sector in Chile. (Perez, 2016)
Some of the key results aimed by the project:
- Reduction in avoidable hospital admissions;
- Increase in the breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening rates, ensuring access to
curative services;
- Increase of centralized drug procurement by hospitals and municipalities through national
procurement agency.
IFI: World Bank
Medal: Golden
If followed accordingly to what they aim to do, the project has the potential to be very impactful
for the population that is attended by FONASA. A way to improve the project would be to
provide medium-sized cities with basic health care and improve all health care aspects in small
cities so that they won’t require to transfer to big hospital facilities. Basic and quality health
care have the potential to solve many health issues if provided with services such as nutrition,
dentists, family health care, pediatricians, and a comprehensive vaccination program.
The potential negative impacts are bad management of the money received, for example, by
giving too much to a place that doesn’t need the same as another region. A way to avoid this
would be to assist with money according to the regional requirements that the municipalities
in Chile require. For example, if a region has the highest rate in heart diseases, invest in heart
treatment or proactive healthcare, such as outdoor gyms for people to exercise and health
education on how to avoid heart problems.
Uruguay COVID-19 Emergency Response Project
The project has two main components, first is to support the identification, isolation and
provide quality health care to patients with COVID-19 on time to minimize the spread of the
disease and thus, its mortality and also prepare the health system to increase levels of patients
in need of health care. The second part of the project is to effectively manage the
implementation and evaluation of the activities. (Perez, 2020)
IFI: World Bank
Medal: Bronze
The positive impacts can be enormous for the country. First, reducing the number of patients
with the disease will help stop the spread and also will help to avoid economic crashes in
Uruguay, as people will be healthy to go back to work once the situation is settled or at least
more in control. Secondly, people will also benefit as this way the government will be able to
spend on health without other aspects of the country's development to suffer. These results can
be improved by massive monitoring of the issues in the country, using the money to help people
that need to stop working either because they are already sick or because they are in the risk
groups.
A negative impact can be that the money is badly managed and the country will not benefit any
of the positive impacts if regions with most cases are not properly isolated and people don’t
help the government in stopping the spread.
References:
Perez., L. O. (2016). Concept Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet-Integrated Safeguards
Document - Chile - Health Sector Support Project - P161018 (English). . Washington, D.C. :
World Bank Group.
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/168861479933449968/Concept-Integrated-
Safeguards-Data-Sheet-Integrated-Safeguards-Document-Chile-Health-Sector-Support-
Project-P161018
Pedroso,F. F. F. (2019).Concept Project Information Document (PID) - Southern Brazil Urban
Resilience Program (SUL RESILIENTE) - P170682 (English). . Washington, D.C.: World
Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/881151561387990665/Concept-
Project-Information-Document-PID-Southern-Brazil-Urban-Resilience-Program-SUL-
RESILIENTE-P170682
Perez., L. O. (2020). Project Information Document - UY: COVID-19 Emergency Response
Project - P173876 (English) Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/988471589231536480/Project-Information-
Document-UY-COVID-19-Emergency-Response-Project-P173876
