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In preparation to Shanghai Conference on the Global Learning
Process on Scaling up Poverty Reduction, a field visit took
place in Sana’a from February 28 – March 1, 2004.
The field visit to Yemen is the fifth of eight such visits
to projects selected to participate in Shanghai conference
to learn from. The event was opened by His Excellency Abdulkader
Ba-Jammal, Prime Minister, and His Excellency Ahmed M. Sofan,
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning, Mahdy Ismail
Aljazzaf, Executive Director of the World Bank, and Mahmood
Ayub, Country Director. 70 participants attended the event
on the first day, including ministers, civil society, private
sector participants, and international visitors from social
funds or social fund type programs from Bangladesh, Morocco,
Nicaragua and Sri Lanka. The event was organized around a
day of plenary and discussion on the Social Fund and its operations,
followed by two days of site visits to see the SFD's activities
in service delivery in water, education, cultural restoration,
and health to rural tribal communities, and its activities
in urban areas with vulnerable groups – a center for
blind girls, a center for street children, a women’s
training facility, and microfinance operations. This event
was a rich learning experience for all participants, and is
a strong case that merits high prominence in Shanghai and
beyond
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