World Bank Policies
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The World Bank has established policies and procedures that help ensure its operations are economically, financially, socially, and environmentally sound.   Policies have been developed for such areas as funding, contracting, disbursing, disclosure, safeguards, and participation.  They are codified in the World Bank's Operational Manual. They are subject to extensive review while being formulated, and to compliance monitoring once approved.  CSOs have been formally consulted on major policies introduced or updated by Bank staff in recent years such as loan conditionalities, forest management, information disclosure, indigenous peoples, resettlement, and development lending.  These consultations have occurred via face-to-face meetings, video conferences, or via a web-based discussions.  The Bank is actively working to improve the quality of these consultations to ensure that they result in improved policies and programs. This section of the website provides information on specific elements of the World Bank’s Policy on Disclosure of Information, and on the two mechanisms set up by the World Bank to assure compliance with its policies – Inspection Panel and Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman. Over the past two decades the Bank's Board of Directors has adopted numerous policies and procedures to guide Bank work in the many areas in which it workds.  Many of these policies are being reviewed in order to be updated, simplified, and further mainstreamed in Bank operations and to be adopted by the Bank's government-partner agencies.  Thus Operational Directives are being converted to Operational Policies, Bank Procedures, and Good Practice notes. Most Recently Changed Operational Policies (OPs) OP 8.00 - Rapid Response to Crises and Emergencies - March, 2007 OP 4.11 - Physical Cultural Resources - July 2006 OP 4.10 - Indigenous Peoples - July 2005 OP 13.20 - Additional Financing for Investment Lending - May 2005 OP 4.00 - Piloting the Use of Borrower Systems to Address Environmental and Social Safeguard Issues in Bank-Supported Projects - March 2005 OP 8.60 - Development Policy Lending - August 2004 OP 1.00 - Poverty Reduction - August 2004 OP 4.12 - Involuntary Resettlement - revised, April 2004 OP 6.00 - Bank Financing - April 2004 OP 8.10 - Project Preparation Facility - revised, April 2004 OP 11.00 - Procurement - revised, April 2004 OP 13.25 - Use of Project Cost Savings - revised, April 2004

Governing Structure of the World Bank
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The World Bank is a multi-lateral financial agency tied to the United Nations, and established in 1945.  The Bank is owned by member governments who exercise their direction through a Board of Governors, consisting of one governor for each of the 185 member countries. The governors meet once a year to review operations and basic policies. They delegate most functions and the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the organization to 25 full-time Executive Directors, who are based  at the Bank’s Headquarters in Washington, DC, USA.   At the staff level, the Bank is managed by a President, three Managing Directors, and over 20 Vice-Presidents who oversee major operational units at the Bank’s headquarters in Washington as well as over 100 country offices. This section of the site provides information about the governance structure of the World Bank by describing the role of the Board of Directors, as well as the responsibilities and activities of Bank Management. More Information:Articles of Agreement Member Countries Board of Governors Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and the IMF Boards of Executive Directors  Executive Directors Organization Office of the President

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What's New! World Bank MDG Efforts Help Save 13 Million Lives Since 2000:  In his opening statement to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2010 on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick, said that the World Bank has helped to save the lives of 13 million people with its MDG-related IDA fund for the world’s poorest since 2000, and will redouble efforts to mobilize substantial new investments agriculture, education, and health to close the overall MDG gap over the next five years.  More...   CSO Participants Provide Useful Feedback on 2010 Spring Meetings:  CSO participants surveyed after the 2010 Spring Meetings gave high marks for the logistics, policy sessions, and overall usefulness of the Civil Society Policy Forum. They also shared comments on what they felt worked well (e.g. diversity of topics, better understanding of the Bank ) and provided specific suggestions on how to improve the CS Forum in the future. These included: avoiding too many simultaneous sessions, more time built into the schedule for participants interactions, and greater access to Bank / Fund staff. More...   CSOs Collaborate Actively on Access to Information Policy: A number of CSOs played a significant role in the implementation planning phase of the Bank’s new Access to Information policy which was rolled out on July 1. CSO representatives worked closely with the Bank’s Access to Information Working Group (AIWG) in order to provide input and make suggestions on various aspects of the implementation plan such as translation requirements, user accessibility, and staff training. More... World Bank Frees Up Development Data: As part of a larger effort to increase access to information at the World Bank, the Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick on April 20, 2010 announced a free and easy access to the institution's more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers. Experts say the Bank's open data initiative has the potential to stimulate more evidence-based policymaking in developing countries by bringing more researchers and innovative analysis into the development process. More...    Civil Society eNewsletter – September 2010 New!!: This edition of the newsletter carries interesting stories about World Bank support for the MDG, World Bank Vice President at the CIVICUS Assembly, new World Bank/CSO Health page, etc.  Also included are important appointments like the Egyptian natioanl Managing Director and the new clean energy expert.  To read more and to subscribe click here.

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The World Bank and Civil Society
The growth of civil society has been one of the most significant trends in international development. This website will provide you with information and materials on the World Bank's evolving relationship with civil society. More  2010 World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings The 2010 World Bank and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings will be held on October 8 to 10, 2010 in Washington, DC. All Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) representatives interested in participating in the Annual Meetings must obtain individual accreditation. The deadline for requesting on-line accreditation expired on September 27, 2010. For further information, you can contact the World Bank Civil Society Team at civilsociety@worldbank.org. To learn more about the Civil Society Policy Forum (to be held between October 6 – 10) and share your ideas on how to improve the format of the policy dialogue sessions, click here… On-line accreditation Closed by 12 midnight (EDT) on Monday September 27 Policy Forum Schedule