Civil society organizations (CSOs) in Egypt, Yemen, and Tunisia are closely following the World Bank Group’s (Bank) development in their countries of new frameworks that will guide the Bank’s public and private sector operations for the next 4-6 years. In all three countries, the Bank will be launching the process for developing Country Partnership Frameworks …
Although the process for developing a Country Partnership Strategy/Framework (CPS/CPF) in Yemen has been postponed until 2015, Yemeni civil society organizations (CSOs) have already taken proactive steps to tell the World Bank how they would like to be consulted once the Bank begins developing its country approach. The proposal submitted to the Yemeni World Bank office …
The World Bank Group (“WBG” or “the Bank”) announced in 2014 that it is changing its Country Engagement approach, in line with the 2013 WBG Corporate Strategy that aims to streamline operations across the institution (public and private sector) and focus all operations moving forward on two goals of reducing absolute poverty and boosting shared …
Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank CC BY-NC-ND The Bank Information Center (BIC), Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and Oxfam International have submitted recommendations to the World Bank Group on its proposed new approach to country engagement. As part of the new World Bank Group (WBG or Bank) Corporate Strategy that was approved in October …
The World Bank has launched the development of a new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Egypt that will constitute the framework for the Bank’s projects and lending priorities in Egypt for the period from 2015 to 2018. A group of Egyptian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) met with World Bank officials in Cairo in February, following …
As citizens of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continue to fight for the gains they have accomplished through their uprisings, it remains clear that people in the region have found their voices and are demanding that they participate in the decisions that affect their lives. In response, and in order to remain …