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Connecting globally, catalyzing change locally

The World Bank Institute

Connecting globally,catalyzing change locally

The capacity or change

Capacity is the ability o individuals, organiza-tions, state institutions, coalitions, and society

itsel to catalyze change to achieve their devel-

opment objectives. Capacity development is

thereore a country-led and country-owned

process o change, requiring collective solutions

rom all segments o societypublic, private,

and civil. The overarching objective is to createcapable and accountable states, a competitive

and responsible private sector, and an engaged

and empowered citizenry.

Collective solutions require new orms o

collaboration, whether through public-private

partnerships or the provision o inrastructure,

health, or education; citizen report cards to

improve public service delivery; or mayors

working together or climate change mitigation

in urban centers. Developing the capacity or

collective action means developing the capacity

o entire leadership teams or ministries. It also

means building multistakeholder coalitions,

sometimes even among conicting social groups,

to orge a consensus or change.

Our vision

Our vision is to be a catalyst or action that leadsto change, and to serve as a global connector

o knowledge, learning, and innovation. WBI

connects globally to catalyze locally.

Our approach

Eective capacity development must be trans-

ormational. It must reach beyond training andtechnical assistance to inspire, empower, equip,

and connect leaders and coalitions o state and

nonstate actors.

As a broker o global knowledge, WBI

works with donors, learning institutions,

and centers o excellence that can shape,

customize, and deliver content locally. We

link global sources o knowledge through

our platorms or South-South exchange and

innovation. We connect, through World Bank

operations, to the best sources o knowledge

and fnance and to partners who provide unds

and expertise.

Successul capacity development activities

should lead to measurable changes in


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knowledge, practices, products, and services

that improve the institutional environment in

which development progress can be achieved.

WBI supports capacity development strategiesand programs that are locally-owned.

Extensive partnerships with governments,

civil society organizations, proessional

networks, and private sector associations,

coupled with the use o technologies such

as e-learning and the Global Development

Learning Network (GDLN), also enable us toadopt a wholesale approach and take our

programs to scale.


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Our business lines

WBI oers several business lines that support

debate, experimentation, and sharing o inno-

vative ideas. These can be used alone or incombination depending on country needs.

Practitioner exchanges

WBI promotes a catalytic approach to capacity

development which galvanizes practitioners to

action. We provide products and services to

support South-South knowledge exchanges andlearninginspiring policymakers and develop-

ment proessionals by putting them in touch with

successul development solutions rom other

parts o the world.

South-South Experience Exchanges: In

Arica, countries seeking to develop a skilledworkorce that can compete in providing

inormation technology services have been

learning rom India. A 54-member delegation

rom eight Arican countries visited India or

a frst-hand look at inormation technology-

enabling policy models and the corporate

workings o Inosys, Microsot, and other

industry leaders.

The Global and Regional Development

Debate Series brings together eminent

academics, fnance ministers, and central

bank governors to discuss new approaches

to development and economic strategies

that enable countries to compete in the

global economy.

Innovation platorms

In addition to exchanging practitioner experi-

ences we also scan or, incubate, and scale up

transormative innovations.

WBI provides online platforms as well

as innovation fairs and clinics to supportand share innovative practical solutions

to development challenges. Examples

include using mobile Inormation and

Communication Technology or social

accountability, youth initiatives or conict

prevention, and geomapping to promote

transparency. We work with local and

international partners and networks to

solicit and screen promising ideas, and

with organizations such as Ashoka and

Santa Clara University to expand the pool

o innovative projects.

Development Marketplace (DM)is a

global and regional competition or early

stage innovations with strong potential or


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development impact and replication. More

than a thousand social entrepreneurs havereceived seed money rom Development

Marketplace over the past decade to

scale up innovative startup projects that

help the poorest. The DM supports local

intermediaries to provide pre-investment

technical assistance to social enterprises

and to connect them to a growing pool oexternal investors

Leadership and coalition building

Leadership is not only an individual ability, but

a process o mobilizing resources, people, and

groups to achieve a desired end. WBI and its

partners oer seminars and advisory services onleadership development and coalition building

or policymakers, and skills-building activities in

several sectors and thematic areas. We also oer

programs to build the capacity o civil society

organizations, and to engage business and

youth in taking collective action or public sector

accountability and combating corruption.

WBI helps advance good governance

in the extractive industries by building

multistakeholder coalitions among

government, civil society, and the privatesector at dierent points in the value chain,

beginning with awarding o licenses.

We mobilize alliances to help mayors and

city ofcials manage expanding cities

in a sustainable and green manner. We

deliver knowledge exchange services to

over 3,000 cities to help city managersdeliver public services through innovative

fnancing mechanisms and public private

partnership structures, while also sharing

best practices in climate change mitigation

and adaptation.

We support networks o institutions that

can hold the state to account, such asparliamentary public accounts committees

to oversee public fnance management;

and a network o Supreme Court justices

or peer exchanges on issues o judiciary

transparency and accountability.

Social accountability networks can make a

lasting contribution to better governance.We help build networks o civil society

organizations by partnering with the

Afliated Networks o Social Accountability

(ANSA) in Arica, East Asia, and South Asia.


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Structured learning

Structured learning programs help develop

skills and address capacity constraints in priority

sectors or disciplines through courses, work-shops, and conerences. Flagship courses are

oered by country and regional institutes and

through the use o e-learning. For example:

Our Flagship Program on Health Sector

Reorm and Sustainable Financing, frst

developed over a decade ago with HarvardUniversity, has been delivered across

several regions. WBIs state-o-the-art

curriculum on health systems management

has been adapted and oered through

regional health networks such as the Asia

Network for Capacity Building in Health

Systems Strengthening. WBI started the frst Urban Management

Certifcation Program, initially in

partnership with the Administrative Sta

College o India, a national training

institute based in Hyderabad, and

subsequently with other state-level

training institutes. WBI has supportedcontent development, peer review, and

pedagogical approaches or the use o

case studies, new learning techniques, and

learning technologies.


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Strategic priorities and thematic areas

WBIs programs advance the rontiers o devel-

opment thinking and practice. They do this in

collaboration with other units in the World BankGroup and with worldwide networks o leaders,

thinkers, and practitioners.

Cross-cutting Priorities

Fragileand ConFliCt-aFFeCted StateS

WBI enhances the capacity o the state at alllevels, as well as civil society, media and the

private sector, to orm and sustain coalitions or

state-building, institutional reorm, and greater

accountability. This enables them to contribute

to successul transitions, sustained peace, and

enhanced citizen-state relations. The program

includes skills-building or revenue collection,budget management, procurement, service

delivery, and associated monitoring and evalua-

tion. It also oers a program on leadership and

coalition building customized to the needs o

ragile states.

governanCe

Corruption and poor governance are the greatest

obstacles to poverty alleviation. WBI helps build

the capacity o state institutions in client coun-

tries to manage the challenging processes o

reorm. We strengthen leadership and build

coalitions through just-in-time practitioner

exchanges, South-South learning, peer networks,

and innovation platorms. We have programs on

leadership, governance o extractive industries,

procurement, access to inormation, business-

led collective action against corruption; judicial

transparency and accountability; stolen assetrecovery (StAR); parliamentary oversight, and

mobilizing stakeholders or reorm.

Thematic Areas

ClimateChange

Leaders across the world are struggling with therealities o climate change and how to prepare

or, adapt to, and mitigate its eects. WBI helps

countries move toward low-carbon develop-

ment and climate resiliency. Programs cover

leadership and coalition building or climate

change; cities and climate change; mitigation

and innovation in carbon fnance; and climateadaptation in water, agriculture, and natural

resources management.

growthand CompetitiveneSS

WBI acilitates exchanges o knowledge and

experience among policymakers, practitio-

ners, and experts to help them design policiesand strengthen institutions that enhance their

prospects or sustainable, inclusive growth and

poverty reduction. This program delivers global

policy dialogues on macroeconomic and fscal

policy, trade, skills development, and innovation

policy, as well as courses on labor market polices,

and capital ows.


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climate change agenda. In this complex setting,

WBIs Urban program helps improve the quality

o proessional service in key management posts

in cities throughout the world, ocusing on urbanplanning and land management, municipal

fnance and governance, urban service delivery,

and ensuring sae and resilient cities.

health SyStemS

WBIs Health Systems practice delivers courses,

seminars, and other orms o knowledge exchange

on key aspects o health systems strengthening.These include fnancing and payment; health

service delivery; institutional organization, regula-

tion and governance; and health outcomes and

strategic planning to achieve them. Audiences

include government ofcials, parliamentarians,

health managers, nongovernmental organizations,

academia, the private sector, aid donors, andtraining institutions.

publiC-privatepartnerShipS

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) mobilize

private sector resourcestechnical, manage-

rial, and fnancialto deliver essential public

goods. WBI delivers courses, conerences, andother knowledge-exchange activities on the

analysis and evaluation o PPP design and struc-

tures; PPPs or climate change mitigation and

adaptation; PPPs as innovative fnancial tools

or inrastructure investments; PPPs to access

risk-transer markets; and partnerships to deliver

basic health and education services.

urban development

With three million people moving into cities in

developing countries every week, and with the

roughly one billion already living in slums, cities

must rapidly enhance their capacity to fnance

and deliver more services to households, busi-

nesses, and industry while also addressing the


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Partnerships

Capacity development remains a undamental

challenge to achieving sustainable develop-

ment despite considerable eorts rom the

international community. In 2009, the interna-

tional community spent roughly US$120 billionon Ofcial Development Assistance, o which

between a quarter and a third was spent on

activities designed to enhance capacity. WBI, in

collaboration with its partners, is at the oreront

o helping countries to design and implement

eective capacity-development programs. As a

connector to the best global and local sourceso knowledge, we rely on our partners and

agents o change to help us develop and deliver

content. A majority o our programs are deliv-

ered with partners.

To achieve our vision o connecting globally

and catalyzing change locally, WBI works with two

broad categories o partners: Strategic Partners

and Global, Regional, and Local Partners.

Strategic Partners enhance WBIs intellectual

resources, content base, knowledge networks,

and fnancial resources. These partners, rom the

public and private sectors, provide roughly hal

o WBIs resources spent directly on programs,

which helps create cost-eective programs,coordinate activities, and harmonize aid.

Global, Regional, and Local Partners provide

support in WBIs client countries and help us deliver

and scale up our programs and activities. They

strengthen local ownership and commitment,

mobilize local resources, and apply local knowledge.

These partners include nongovernmentalorganizations (NGOs), oundations, universities, think

tanks, and training institutions.

Scholarship programs

As part o its mission to build capacity in

developing countries, WBI administers the

Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship

Program, the Robert S. McNamara Fellowships


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Program, and the Japan Indonesia Presidential

Scholarship Program. These programs provide

fnancial support or graduate and postgrad-

uate studies leading to masters and doctoraldegrees in development-related felds or mid-

career proessionals rom eligible developing

countries. For more inormation, see: www.

worldbank.org/scholarships.

Partnership Instruments

To maximize the impact o these resources, WBIuses two instruments which complement its

thematic-based partnerships:

The Multi-Donor Financing Facility(MDFF),

supporting innovative approaches to

capacity development, and

The South-South Experience ExchangeFacility(South-South Facility), enabling

developing countries to build their own

capacity by sharing their development

experiences and knowledge and by learning

rom one another.

The MDFF is designed to enable like-mindedpartners to improve the eectiveness and impact

o the assistance they devote to strengthening

the capacity o countries to manage their

development eectively. Through the MDFF,

partners support:

Scaling up and wholesaling the delivery

o capacity-development programs

across multiple countries and regions with

increased impact through customizing

program content to regional and country

needs; Leveraging strategic partnerships with

institutions, such as universities and think

tanks as well as with the private sector, to

help WBI broaden its reach and impact;

Strengthening key capacity development

instruments by urther integrating

knowledge exchange, innovation,leadership, and structured learning to

improve results.

As a global development institution that oers

fnancing, knowledge and convening services

across 120 countries, the World Bank is well

positioned to help countries implement eectiveknowledge exchanges by helping to match the

supply and demand or knowledge. To harness

this opportunity, the South-South Facility was

launched by World Bank Group President Robert

Zoellick at the Banks Annual Meetings in 2008.

With partners, the South-South Facility helps

developing countries share their own experienceand identiy the experiences o others that are

relevant to their challenges. Over 50 low-income

countries have received knowledge rom nearly

70 countries. These exchanges are inuencing the

design and direction o nearly US$2 billion o World

Bank project fnancing, and the experiences shared

are documented and disseminated through a web-

based experience exchange library.


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WBIs strategic country partners

WBI works closely with these country partners to leverage their support and expertise to maximize our

capacity development impact:

Austria Australia Belgium

Canada Peoples Republic o China Colombia

Denmark Finland France

India Ireland Japan

Republic o Korea Mexico The Netherlands

Norway Russian Federation Spain

Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom


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WBI in the feld

Collaboration and coordination with the World

Banks regional operations is essential to our

work. Planning jointly with the regions and

drawing heavily on regional experience with

lending, analytical work, and advisory activities

helps ensure the quality and relevance o our

learning programs. WBIs regional coordinators

also serve as liaisons with partner organizations

in client countries.

Arica

Ms. Joan Hubbard (based in Washington)

[email protected]

Mr. Joel Kolker (based in Pretoria)

[email protected]

East Asia and the Pacifc

Ms. Joyce Msuya (based in Beijing)

[email protected]

Europe and Central Asia

Ms. Tatyana Leonova (based in Moscow)

[email protected]

Latin America and Caribbean

Ms. Hnin Hnin Pyne (based in Washington)

[email protected]

South Asia

Ms. Bhavna Bhatia (based in New Delhi)

[email protected]

Middle East and North Arica

Ms. Hnin Hnin Pyne (based in Washington)

[email protected]

Ms. Anuja Utz (based in Marseilles)

[email protected]

WBI partnership contacts

Strategic Partnerships

Mr. Mark Nelson (based in Washington)

[email protected]

Bilateral Partnerships

Mr. Seth Ayers (based in Washington)

[email protected]


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For more inormation, contact

[email protected]

www.worldbank.org/wbi

Cover photo: Sven Torfnn/Panos Pictures

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