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For further information or to order printed copies of the Civil Society Review, contact the Civil Society Team at www.worldbank.org/civilsociety or by mail at Civil Society Team The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 USA Phone (202 473-1840 Fax (202) 522-2241 E-mail: [email protected] Table of Contents Foreword ix Preface xi Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii Executive Summary xv 1 1. World Bank Engagement with Civil Society 1 2. Policy Dialogue 3 Annual and Spring Meetings 3 2009 Annual Meetings 5 2010 Spring Meetings 6 2010 Annual Meetings 6 2011 Spring Meetings 7 2011 Annual Meetings 7 2012 Spring Meetings 7 Food Roundtables 8 September 2009 8 September 2010 8 April 2011 9 Book Launches 10 Engagement with Global Civil Society Networks 10 Liaising with Multilateral Development Banks and UN Agencies 10 3. Consultations 13 Global Consultations 13 Environmental Strategy 15 Access to Information Policy 15 IDA16 Replenishment 15 Country Assistance Strategies 16 Poverty Reduction Strategies 17 4. Operational Collaboration and Partnerships 21 Civil Society Involvement in Bank-Funded Projects 21 Community-Driven Development 23 Social Accountability 25 Education 27 Health, Nutrition, and Population 30 Food Security 31 Environment 32 Climate Change 33 iii Disaster Risk Management 35 Corporate Responsibility Program 36 5. Programmatic Partnerships 39 Access to Information 39 Open Development 40 Joint Training 40 Civil Society Participation in Bank Governance Mechanisms 41 Engagement in Civil Society Organizations after Retirement 42 from the Bank 6. Funding Mechanisms 43 Japan Social Development Fund 43 Civil Society Fund 44 Development Marketplace 46 Global Environment Facility 47 Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative 48 Partnership for Transparency Fund 49 Community Outreach 50 Grants Program 50 In-Kind Donations 50 Disaster Relief 51 High School Summer Internship Program 51 Staff Volunteerism 51 53 7. Engagement at the Regional and Country Levels 53 Africa 53 Dialogue and Consultations 53 Training 54 Monitoring Bank Projects 54 Financing Civil Society Organizations 55 East Asia and Pacific 55 Consultations and Knowledge Sharing 55 Operational Collaboration 56 Eastern Europe and Central Asia 57 Policy Dialogue and Consultation 57 Governance Reform 57 Research 58 Grant Funding 58 Latin America and the Caribbean 58 Policy Dialogue and Consultations 59 Operational Collaboration 59 Grant Funding 60 Middle East and North Africa 60 Dialogue and Consultations 60 Training and Capacity Building 61 Grant Funding 61 iv South Asia 62 Bangladesh 62 India 63 Nepal 63 Pakistan 63 Sri Lanka 63 Europe 64 Belgium 64 France 65 Germany and Austria 65 Italy 65 The Netherlands 66 Nordic Countries 66 Spain 66 Switzerland 66 Other Country Offices 67 Japan 67 United States 67 8. Engagement with Specific Constituencies 69 Foundations 69 The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Service Delivery 69 Indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa The MasterCard Foundation: Financial Inclusion in 69 Sub-Saharan Africa The Aga Khan and Bernard van Leer Foundations: 70 Early Childhood Development in Africa Gender 70 Indigenous Peoples 71 Labor Unions 71 People with Disabilities 72 Youth 73 9. Engagement across the World Bank Group 75 International Finance Corporation 75 Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency 76 Bank Treasury 76 Compliance Advisor Ombudsman 77 Inspection Panel 78 Institutional Integrity 79 Independent Evaluation Group 80 Conclusion 81 v Figures and Tables Table 1.1. Continuum of Engagement between the World Bank xviii and Civil Society Organizations Figure 1.1. Levels of Civil Society Influence and Involvement xviii with the World Bank Figure 2.1 Number of Civil Society Participants at Annual Meetings 4 of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Figure 3.1 Geographic Distribution of World Bank Consultations 15 Figure 3.2 Stakeholder Distribution of World Bank Consultations 15 Figure 3.3 Civil Society Involvement in Country Assistance Strategy 17 Consultations, 2010–12 Figure 3.4 Civil Society Involvement in PRSPs and PRSP Progress 19 Reports, 2010–12 Table 4.1 Civil Society Participation in World Bank–Financed 21 Projects, 2010–12 Figure 4.1 Civil Society Participation in World Bank–Financed 22 Projects, 1990–2012 Figure 4.2 Participation of Civil Society Organizations in 23 Development Policy Lending and Investment Lending, 2010–12 Table 4.2 Examples of World Bank Social Accountability Activities 28 Boxes 2.1 Planning the CSO Program at the 2009 Istanbul Meetings 5 3.1 Global Bank Consultations with Civil Society Organizations, 13 2010–12 3.2 Soliciting and Incorporating Civil Society Input in Designing 14 the Global Partnership for Social Accountability 3.3 Consultations with Civil Society Organizations in Burkina Faso 18 3.4 Women’s Empowerment Featured in Ghana’s PRSP 19 4.1 Using Development Policy Lending to Support Governance 23 Reform 4.2 Program for Results Consultations with Civil Society 23 Organizations in Morocco 4.3 Partnering with Civil Society Organizations to Reach 24 Marginalized Populations in Indonesia 4.4 Supporting Social Accountability through a Governance 26 Trust Fund 4.5 Using Cell Phones to Vote on Budget Priorities in the 27 Democratic Republic of Congo 4.6 Civil Society Members on the Board of the Global Partnership 29 for Education 4.7 The Civil Society Consultative Group on Health, Nutrition, 31 and Population 4.8 Civil Society Representation in the World Bank’s Global 33 Food Crisis Response Program 4.9 Connect4Climate: Supporting Youth as Climate Change Agents 34 4.10 Reducing the Bank’s Environmental Footprint 37 5.1 Surge in Document Searches in Response to New 40 Information Policy vi 6.1 Supporting “Barefoot” Management Training in India 44 6.2 Emergency Support after the Earthquake in Haiti 45 6.3 Empowering Civil Society Organizations to Track Extractive 48 Industries 7.1 Enlisting Civil Society Organizations to Monitor the Results of 54 World Bank–Financed Projects 7.2 Improving Government Services through Citizen Oversight 56 in the Philippines 7.3 Civil Society Participation in CAS 58 Consultations in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region 7.4 Strengthening the Oversight Role of Civil Society Organizations 60 in the Dominican Republic 7.5 Promoting Social Accountability in the Arab World 62 7.6 Building Capacity for Citizen Involvement in Nepal 63 7.7 CSO Engagement Intensified in the United Kingdom and Ireland 66 7.8 Scaling-up Operational Collaboration with InterAction 68 9.1 International Compliance Mechanisms Come of Age 78 vii Foreword he world witnessed a new level of civil soci- Performance Standards, Access to Information, and ety activism over the past few years. From the Environment Policies, which involved hundreds of TArab Spring in the Arab Republic of Egypt meetings worldwide and online feedback from and Tunisia to the anticorruption movements in thousands of CSO representatives. India and the “occupy” movement in some West- The review also highlights important examples of ern countries, citizens and civil society organiza- operational collaboration in the areas of health, tions (CSOs) went to the streets to demand greater education, disaster recovery, and environmental political participation and economic opportuni- protection.