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 …
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 …
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 …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2014 Civil society organizations (CSOs) from Egypt, Yemen, and Tunisia have submitted a document to their respective World Bank country offices with …
This new issue shines the spotlight on the World Bank Group’s new Corporate Strategy and what it will mean for how the Bank sets plans in borrowing countries. It also spotlights BIC-MENA and partner CSO engagements with the World Bank during the 2013 Annual Meetings. The issue also provides brief summary and analysis of two …
Between August 14 and October 5 2013 the Bank Information Center held a series of seven children’s consultations in six countries on the World Bank safeguards. The countries in which consultations have been carried out include: Peru, Yemen, India, Cambodia and Uganda. The World Bank is currently reviewing its social and environmental policy standards, and is …
Map showing World Bank financed activities in Tunisia. Source: World Bank The Bank Information Center (BIC)’s Middle East and North Africa (MENA) program publishes a study on the role of the World Bank Group in Tunisia historically and during the current transitional period. In addition to highlighting the main development challenges affecting the country, …
A group of Egyptian civil society organizations have submitted their recommendations to the World Bank as input to Phase 1 of the Social and Environmental Safeguard policy review process. The document was endorsed by many of the same organizations that pushed the Bank to hold a civil society consultation in Cairo since such a meeting …