World Bank-Civil Society Engagement

World Bank

No 30186 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: Fiscal Year 2005 and 2006 have confirmed a growing trend in Bank-civil society relations: more substantive policy dialogue at the global level, and greater country-level operational collaboration. Not only is the policy dialogue around complex and sensitive issues at the global level becoming more fluid, but the PRS process continues to open up important policy space for government-civil society engagement at the country level. On the operational level, as the joint tsunami reconstruction efforts in Asia are demonstrating, civil society and governments can be complementary partners in the development process. Yet as the Bank’s own Issues and Options paper and various CSO critiques have confirmed, the Bank faces many challenges in order to realize the greater opportunities that Bank-civil society dialogue and collaboration have to offer. The Bank must improve its own mechanisms for civil society engagement and accountability; ensure that best practices are applied more consistently across the institution; and encourage member governments to improve the enabling environment for civil society to flourish in their countries.

Keywords: Governance-Citizenship; Governance-International; Governmental; Organizations; Governance-National; Governance; Social; Development-Civil; Society; Social; Development-Participations; and; Civic; Engagement; Social; Development-Social; Accountability; Social; Development-Social; Inclusion; &; Institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstreams/c09 ... eee765c0bb9/download (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:30186

Access Statistics for this book

More books in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group 1818 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20433. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tal Ayalon ().