Demand for Good Governance Stocktaking

Initiatives Supporting DFGG Across World Bank Group Sectors and

Regions

June 2nd, 2008

Rob Chase and Anushay Anjum Social Development Department

Why take stock of World Bank DFGG Activities?

• GAC Strategy mandate– Promote Multistakeholder engagement– World Bank already supports lots of demand-side activities

• GAC Implementation Plan– Call to scale up and mainstream demand-side activities– Guidance to staff on how

• Launch Demand for Good Governance Peer Learning Network– 350 members– Interest across sectors and regions

• Different conceptions, approaches and activities– Often elements of other activities: analysis, processes or pilots

Stocktaking Objectives

• DFGG Activities common goal: Promote transparency, citizen engagement and social accountability

• Discover and discern a wealth of approaches– Not seeking to be comprehensive of all activities– Outstanding question: “How much do we spend on

DFGG?”

• Organize activities into broad framework• Compare similarities and differences

– Identify promising examples and entry-points– N.B.: VPs to highlight cases for GAC Council June 23

Organizing Framework: Functional Elements

• Information & Transparency– Facilitate availability of information about authorities’

actions

• Consultation & Participation– Provide opportunities for multiple stakeholders to engage

• Monitoring & Oversight– Promote methods and incentives to hold actors to account

• Enhancing Capacities– Support more competent authorities and stakeholders

Organizing Framework: Level of Involvement

• Community & Local– Community Driven Development– Decentralization support

• Sector– Sectoral reforms– Processes for investment operations

• National– Poverty Reduction Strategies– Non-executive oversight bodies

Organizing Framework: Possible Entry Points

• National dialog• Analysis and Advisory Service• Development Policy Lending• Investment Lending• Operational policies• Capacity Building and Learning Networks

Demand for Good Governance Framework

Functional Elements

Level of Involvement

Community and Local Government

Sector National

Information and

Transparency

Promoting and creating opportunities for multi-stakeholders access disclosure & dissemination of information and transparency norms

Consultation and

Participation

Encouraging and mediating opportunities for multi-stakeholders to input in policies, public spending, and project planning

Monitoring and

Oversight

Strengthening multi-stakeholder particpation in supervision and oversight of policies, programs, projects, and services to ensure public commitments are met

Demand for Good Governance in Practice –

Examples and ToolsBalancing the mainstream and

innovative activities

• Business as usual• Innovations• Examples:

– West Bank and Gaza Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP)

– Orissa State Roads Project – Uganda Poverty Reduction

Support Credit (PRSC)– Cambodia DFGG Project

Functional Elements

Level of Involvement

Community/

Local Governme

nt

Sector National

Information/

Transparency

Orissa State

Roads Project

Consultation/

Participation

West Bank and Gaza -

ICDP

Cambodia DFGG

Monitoring/ Oversight

Uganda PRSC

West Bank and Gaza – Integrated Community Development Project

Objective: Promoting and improving the quality and availability of basic social and economic services in poor and marginalized communities through financing investments in local infrastructure and institutions.

Functional Elements

Community and Local Government LevelEntry-points

Consultation/

Participation

E.g.• Local Government Partnership Grants - activities designed

and implemented by municipalities and NGOs• Implementation of NGO Code of Conduct: NGO Sector

Governance

India - Orissa State Roads Project (Implementation of India-wide Right to Information legislation)

Objective: Assisting the government to establish conducive policy, institutional and governance frameworks to improve road sector management, financing and safety.

Functional Elements

Sector Level Entry-points

Information/ Transparenc

y

E.g.• Implementation of the Orissa State Governance and

Accountability Action Plan and India-wide RTI • Annual report on implementation of RTI

Uganda Poverty Reduction Support

Credit Objective: Improved governance through cross-cutting reforms such as the reform of public service and pay, public procurement, monitoring and evaluation, and measures to increase transparency, participation, and anticorruption.

Functional Elements

National Level Entry-points

Monitoring/ Oversight

E.g.• Participatory Budget Monitoring - Participaty Expenditure

Tracking Survyes (PETS) • Production and publication of a citizen’s guide to budget • CSO Independent Reports

Cambodia Demand for Good Demand for Good Governance ProjectGovernance Project

Innovation at the Innovation at the National LevelObjective:

• Increase transparency, participation, representation, and accountability

• Supporting programs and coalitions which promote, mediate or address in DFGG in the context of government's reforms.

E.g. • Promote Coordination and Learning (e.g. awareness raising)• Participation of citizens in the district decision-making bodies

(Ministry of Interior’s One Window Service)• Mediate Citizens’ complaints through an enhanced

mechanism

Key Observations • A wealth of existing projects, or elements within projects• DFGG work cuts across sectors

o Community Driven Development (CDD) is bulko Who’s turf is this? “Everyone’s business = No one’s business?”o Incentive Structures for doing more (e.g. PRS)

• Hard to finance DFGG work (Lack of Supporting Instruments) o Pilots within Projects o Paid for by Trust Funds o Hard to Scale-up

• Evaluate to learn, learn to evaluateo Evaluation of “what works” neededo Context Specifico Measuring outcomes is difficult

Thank You!