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. …
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 …
September 2014 18 individuals representing civil society organizations from Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen met in Amman, Jordan in September 2014 to discuss where each country is currently in the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) process with the World Bank and how participants can build on the experience of their colleagues in other MENA region countries, as …
September 2014 A group of Egyptian Civil Society Organizations (CSO)s participated in an event on the Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) held at the World Bank office in Cairo in September 2014. An SCD is currently being prepared for Egypt as part of the World Bank’s process of developing a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) to …
CSOs from the Middle East and North Africa participated in several statements, workshops, demonstrations and consultations on the World Bank draft Environmental and Social Safeguards.
On July 27, 2014, ahead of the scheduled World Bank Board meeting to discuss the Bank’s newly proposed draft Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework, Egyptian civil society organizations sent an urgent letter to their representative on the Board of Directors, Dr. Merza Hasan, urging him to recommend that some critical changes be made to the draft. The letter …
A group of Egyptian civil society participants in the World Bank’s first round of consultations on its development of a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Egypt have released a statement with their observations and recommendations on the consultative process thus far. Since the Bank launched its process of developing the first full-fledged country strategy …
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 …
As part of its new corporate strategy, the World Bank is putting together a new strategy titled “Citizen Engagement” that aims to engage citizens throughout the development process and across Bank operations. However, the strategy is being designed in a way that contradicts the very principle it is aiming to promote: consultations have been planned …
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 …