{"id":9195,"date":"2018-06-22T08:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T08:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9195"},"modified":"2018-06-22T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T15:21:40","slug":"world-bank-to-support-government-project-to-boost-burundian-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/world-bank-to-support-government-project-to-boost-burundian-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank to support government project to boost Burundian economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USD 50 million is the amount that the World Bank has given to Burundi government to support the \u201cLocal Development Project for Employment-PDLE\u201d. This money will be used in different sectors of the country\u2019s life to boost its economy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9194\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9194\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Nestor-koffi-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Nestor Koffi: \u201cThis project will help Burundians to develop their economy\u201d.\" width=\"464\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Nestor-koffi-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Nestor-koffi-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Nestor-koffi-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Nestor-koffi.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nestor Koffi: \u201cThis project will help Burundians to develop their economy\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nestor Koffi, Country Manager for the World Bank Group in Burundi, says this project will help Burundians especially the local population to develop their economy. \u201cThe project will directly help more than 1million people,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Koffi says the project will strengthen people\u2019s flexibility and the private sector affected by the fragility of the national context through the creation of income-generating opportunities for people especially the most vulnerable ones.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Butore, Second Deputy President of Burundi, says the project will help mostly women and the youth. \u201cThe project will help increase employment opportunities especially for women and the youth,\u201d says Mr Butore.<\/p>\n<p>The project is due to begin in June 2018 in Bujumbura, Gitega, Ngozi and Kirundo provinces and will mainly be implemented in education, health and infrastructure sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USD 50 million is the amount that the World Bank has given to Burundi government to support the \u201cLocal Development Project for Employment-PDLE\u201d. This money will be used in different sectors of the country\u2019s life to boost its economy. Nestor Koffi, Country Manager for the World Bank Group in Burundi, says this project will help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[735,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9199,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9195\/revisions\/9199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}