Written by Maxine Chikumbo, a SustainUS World Bank delegate and a former Clean Energy Leadership Fellow. Development is a complex thing, and defining goals associated with development thus also can be a difficult thing to do. The UN has developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”). This blog will first define a…
Written by Bianca Santos, a SustainUS World Bank delegate and a graduate of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. The 2018 World Bank Spring Meetings have officially begun! The Civil Society Forum kicked off with orientation sessions Tuesday morning, including a session relevant to the…
Written by Bianca Santos, a SustainUS World Bank delegate and a graduate of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. The first couple thoughts that ran through my head when I stumbled upon the application call for the SustainUS 2018 World Bank Delegation were a mix of…
Written by Gloria Oladipo, a SustainUS World Bank delegate and Freshman at Cornell University. For the past 4 days, I have had the amazing opportunity to attend a variety of meetings centering on the activity and functioning of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other parties. Those…
This week, our first ever SustainUS World Bank Delegation took the goals we had developed at the start of the Annual Meetings and created a specific demands sheet for the World Bank. This two-sided page was hand-delivered by the Townhall moderator to Dr. Jim Yong Kim (World Bank Group President)…