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Promoting Civic Engagement Through Analytical Work in the The World
Bank
Meeting of the External Advisory Group on the Enabling Environment for Civic Engagement Work Program
June 7 & 8 2004
Jeff ThindwaSocial Development Department
Role of Civil Society in Development
Service Delivery-Low Cost - Quality
Consensus for reforms
Institutional Transparency and Accountability
Social Mobilizn, participn of poor
Resource Manag & Env. Protection
Human Rights – Equity Econ. Growth
Prioritizing Participation and Civic Engagement
• 1996 Participation Sourcebook: provided conceptual and operational framework
• Participation embodied in Comprehensive Development Framework; PRSP approach
• Empowerment framework: access to information, inclusion and participation, accountability, local organization capacity
• 15 Operational policies and directives • OED, QAG, DEC studies highlight benefits
of participation
Conclusion: Engagement of citizens and citizens’ organizations in public policy debate, or in delivering public services and contributing to the management of public goods, is a critical factor in making development policy and action responsiveness to the needs and aspirations of the people and potentially of the poor.
Operationalizing Civic Engagement
• Tools, resources, capacity building, for social accountability
• Tools, resources to facilitate diagnostic work on civil society– ARVIN– CSAT
• Tools, resources to promote PM&E of poverty reduction strategies
• Corporate advocacy and institutional guidance
Analytical Work on Civil Society
Attempts to answer four questions: • How can civil society fulfill these functions?• What kind of laws, regulations, policies,
capacities, other institutional factors are necessary?
• How can stakeholders deepen understanding of these factors
• What actions can the Bank, partners, clients, other stakeholders, take to improve conditions for civic engagement?
Embracing Analytical Approaches to Improve Environment for Civic Engagement
NGO Law Handbook
NGO Focus
Focus on Regulation
Participatory Diagnostic Tool
Focus on Civic Engagement
Focus on Broader Reforms
Stakeholder driven
Alignment with Bank Operations
Expert driven
General audiences
Characteristics of the Tools and Methodology
• Participatory and inclusive
• Multi-stakeholder approaches
• Action-Research orientation
• Integrative (with other SD tools) and adaptive
• Outreach/collaboration with peers
• Focus on learning
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Legal & Regulatory Framework
Political & Governance Context
Socio-Cultural Characteristic
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Economic Conditions
“ARVIN” Framework
Civil Society Assessment Tool - CSATA tool – derived from ARVIN- to assess the nature of civil society’s internal and external dynamics; Type of engagement and roles; Strengths and weaknesses; Enabling factors; Opportunities and challenges …….So that advice and strategies can be designed to enable it to play an effective role as a development actor, in different country contexts.In the case of failed or weak states experiencing conditions of widespread conflict and social ungovernability, civil society organizations usually offer the institutional basis for public service delivery. Their links are vital gateways.
Application in Low Income Countries Under Stress - LICUS
Priority for the Bank in LICUS: Give attention to
-understanding the social and political economy
factors,
-transferring knowledge
-to build capacity
Focus on analysis of civil society as part of the
governance assessment of the CAS in LICUS or feed
into TSS.
CSAT tool derived from the ARVIN framework
Some Key Issues
• Are these approaches responding to the needs that you see in your work?
• What are we missing?• What other actors should the Bank be
engaging as part of the process to improve these tools?
• What are the Bank’s comparative advantages, and how can we better play to them?