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 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 …
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 …
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 …
From October 29-November 1, the Bank Information Center, in cooperation with the International Commission of Jurists, hosted a unique delegation of eight adolescents and two child rights experts who traveled to Washington, DC from around the world. This visit was part of a broad civil society campaign on child rights and World Bank and consisted …
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 …
Affected community members and local civil society organizations have submitted the first complaint from Egypt about a World Bank-funded project to the Bank’s highest accountability body, the Inspection Panel