The Road to the SDGs

IsDB contributed to solving part of the Syrian crisis when it erupted with relief campaigns and health projects in the areas of internally displaced people and in neighbouring countries through UN organisations and international CSOs. We carried out a number of projects, including rehabilitating schools inside Syria, building new schools, supporting the printing and distribution of curricular textbooks and organising mobile clinics in schools to treat children. IsDB also managed to attract other partners. Additionally, it contributed US$ 100 million to the Emergency Health Project in Jordan as part of the Global Concessional Financing Facility to address the challenges arising from the Syrian refugee crisis. It also financed a project to enhance Lebanon's health sector capacity to enable low-income Lebanese citizens and Syrian refugees to access primary healthcare services. In Yemen, IsDB was one of the first international organisations to respond to relief and reconstruction calls. The IsDB Group contributed to financing many health, education and rural development projects. IsDB is collaborating with the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) in implementing the Emergency Support and Rehabilitation Development Programme. KSRelief is one of the largest contributors to the US$ 2.5 billion Lives & Livelihoods Fund launched by IsDB and its partners to help the poorest people in IsDB MCs. IsDB is also working with the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Programme for Yemen, which is making great efforts to provide economic and social support to the Yemeni people. In Somalia, despite the outbreak of civil war since 1991, IsDB continued its activities with a number of projects in the areas of health, education water and sanitation. [ 18 ]