Image Source: Rightsobserver.org As the World Bank Group (WBG or the Bank) is currently reviewing its safeguards policies, several Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) began calling for the integration of human rights principles in the new policies, seeing human rights as an important aspect of development policies and countries programing. But integrating human rights principles (HRPs) …
Beginning in 2011, much like other Arab Spring countries, Yemen had to face months of mass, oftentimes violent, protests that called for the toppling of Ali Abdallah Salah’s regime. In an attempt to stop the sliding of the country into further chaos, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) brokered an initiative to establish a caretaker government …
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.
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 …
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 …
The Bank Information Center welcomes the World Bank’s initative to open up and create a larger space for civil society from the MENA region.