The Bank has commenced with the process of Country Partnership Frameworks in a number of MENA countries. Each country has taken a different path than originally expected.
First and foremost, the organizations are asking that clear information be posted on the Bank’s website regarding the CPF timeline. As it stands, there is no information about the CPF process in Tunisia either on the Bank’s country webpage or on the Bank’s consultation hub.
Egyptian rights groups, community members, and laborers impacted by a hazardous cement plant financed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) filed a complaint on April 8, 2015 with the body’s independent grievance mechanism. The grievance mechanism, called the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, or CAO, has now deemed the complaint eligible to move through the grievance process. …
The World Bank has suspended operations in Yemen, appointed a new country director, and is preparing the preliminary groundwork for a Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD).
More than 100 organisations across the world released a joint open statement expressing deep concerns about the World Bank’s support for a multinational chain of low-fee profit-making private primary schools targeting poor families in Kenya and Uganda, Bridge International Academies (BIA).
Egypt and Morocco are the two largest recipients of World Bank lending in the Middle East and North Africa region and as such it was appropriate and important that the Bank held consultations in those two countries as part of a series of global consultations around the Bank’s draft of its proposed Environmental and Social …
Despite the political situation in Iraq, civil society groups seem adamant on continuing their legitimate fight for sound accountability mechanisms in the country. This is especially true with the run up to the implementation of the 2008 law on decentralization that will transfer the responsibility of services delivery to the provinces, and the resulting need …
At the 2015 World Bank Spring Meetings, the Office of the Executive Director – EDS 09 won the “Open for Business” award for the most transparent website among the 25 World Bank Executive Directors’ offices. Mr. Sung-Soo Eun, Executive Director from the Republic of Korea, received the award during the CSO Roundtable with World Bank …