World Bank: Environmental and Social Analyst (Swiss Youth Programme)  

The World Bank Group is one of the world's largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. It uses financial resources and extensive experience to help our client countries reduce poverty, increase economic growth, and improve quality of life. 

World Bank Burundi contributes to Vision Burundi 2025, which serves to guide national policies and strategies, including on sustainable management of natural resources, and the related Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper II. Under the latter, it is directly contributing to promoting development through sustainable environmental and spatial management as well as increasing productivity in agriculture and expanding access to better‐quality economic infrastructure.

Your tasks and responsibilities as Environmental and Social Analyst: 

• Assist with emergency responders and local emergency management authorities in identifying and addressing significant environmental issues in relation to the primary humanitarian objectives;
• Provide support in information-sharing between all concerned stakeholders (Government, humanitarian actors, private sector, communities);
• Provide oversight and quality assurance on the project portfolio. This will include direct operational support on social safeguards;
• Support mainstreaming of environmental sustainability in World Bank country programmes throughout the programme management cycle;
• Support the coordination and implementation of climate change and green economy related activities;
• Support production and continual updating of maps of resilience, adaptation and mitigation activities related to climate change at district, provincial and national level. 

Part of the UN Youth Volunteers Programme, this position is sponsored by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). To ensure one can fully immerse in these assignments, all travel, relocation, life and health insurance costs are covered.  

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