The World Bank Mission team met with members of the Addu City Council today to conclude the mission to the city on the pilot project to be implemented in Addu City under the D’MADD project. The World Bank team was led by Mr. Jerome Bezzina (Task Team Leader, Sr. Digital Development Specialist), and included Ms. Anna Metz (co-Task Team Leader, Sr. Digital Development Specialist), Ms. Kristine Schwebach (Sr. Social Development Specialist) along with Dr. Ibrahim Waheed (Project Manager), Mr. Ahmed Haleem (Communications Specialist), Ms. Shama Ahmed Rasheed (Procurement Specialist) and Ms. Ahlam Abdul Sattar (Finance Management Specialist) from the D’MADD Project Management Unit. Ms. Anna Metz briefed and presented an overview of the D’MADD project and the pilot.

The council, led by Addu City Mayor Mr. Ali Nizar, expressed gratitude for the initiative and reiterated the importance of sharing the data. In previous similar activities, the environmental data was not made available to the council, making it difficult to establish a case for the extent of environmental/ ecological damage due to development projects.

Dr. Waheed assured them that the data would be available to the City Council and published on the project website. The meeting was concluded positively to have a meaningful collaboration in the future.