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).
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 …
Yemeni Parliamentarians Against Corruption (YPAC) launched its new project funded by OXFAM Novib through which it will establish a parliamentary group to monitor grants and loans made to the Yemeni government by international financial institutions and other donors. A three day workshop to launch the project was held in Amman, Jordan from the 8th to …
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 …
Below are the projects the World Bank Group is financing or proposing to finance in Tunisia as of May 27 2014 (compiled by the Bank Information Center): World Bank active projects in Tunisia World Bank proposed projects in Tunisia International Finance Corporation (IFC) projects in Tunisia