In March 2010, Mexico presented its Readiness Plan Proposal (RPP) to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) governance body—the Participants Committee—receiving a favorable response and triggering authorization of its Readiness Preparation Grant. The federal government did not sign its grant agreement in the intervening four years, variously explaining that the source of the delay …
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
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 Bank Information Center submitted comments and recommendations on the World Bank’s proposal for how it will mainstream citizen engagement across its operations. The World Bank Group, as part of its 2013 corporate strategy, committed to streamlining how it engages with citizens throughout the development process and across its various operations. As part of this commitment, …
The pressure is mounting for the World Bank to adopt a climate safeguard The following map shows where Civil Society groups have spoken out for a climate change policy at the World Bank. Over 100 Civil Society Organizations representing more than 60 countries have been reaching out to the Executive Directors of the World Bank …
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 …
Photo: © Kemal Jufri / Greenpeace A letter from over 30 civil society organizations, delivered on May 7th 2014, urges World Bank President Kim to include Development Policy Lending (DPL) in the ongoing Safeguard Policy Review and conduct a thorough assessment of DPL performance in avoiding or mitigating social and environmental risks. The World Bank Board Committee …