Social Development Strategy, April 2002

The World Bank Social Development

StrategyBackground

Why have a strategy? What is the demand? Who is it for? What is it – descriptive or prescriptive? What is the process?

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Concepts and Definitions

Social development means development of society.

The goal of social development is a society that enables people, especially poor people, to take actions to help themselves.

The social dimensions of development --Empowerment Inclusion Security

-- help make societies equitable, productive and sustainable.

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Why is attention to social dimensions

important?

Economic Dimensions

Social Dimensions

Two sides of the poverty reduction coin

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Social development completesa virtuous circle….

… that leads to sustainable poverty reduction

Economic Dimensions

Social Dimensions

Empowerment + Inclusion + Security

Participation + Inclusion

Investment Climate + Growth

Pro-poor Growth

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And makes development

more sustainable

Responsive to poor peoples’ needs and aspirations, and the development contextReliable in efficiently delivering what it promises building social capitalResilient to shocks, providing lasting benefits

Economic Dimensions

Social Dimensions

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Policy/Strategy

Social Development Context in the Bank

Advocacy

Operations

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What have we done and how well?

Advocacy

Policy

OperationsConflict Prevention

and Reconstruction

Civic EngagementSocial Analysis

CDD

Gender

Safeguards

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Strategic Directions

Overview Directions for advocacy Directions for strategies, policies

and policy-based lending Directions for projects and programs Directions for research and

knowledge

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In Strategies and Policies

Building principles of CDD into appropriate strategies Promoting devolution of decision making Promoting access to information (and we should walk

the talk) Improving governance at the project and policy level

through participatory m&e and social accountability measures

Promoting legal and judicial reform for non-violent solutions

Including conflict resolution in CDD Helping to adjust reforms to minimize/manage social risk

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In Projects and Programs: Social Dimensions as Ends in

ThemselvesEither new forms of projects or adjust existing types of projects and programs with social development core objectives

• Develop portfolio to promote empowerment, inclusion,

security• Promote local governance aspects in infrastructure, natural resource management and human development• Include measures to improve social accountability and transparency in public sector management projects

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In Projects and Programs: Social Development as a Means to Other Objectives and for Sustainability

Changing the project preparation and implementation processes:

• Consider both formal institutions and informal behaviors and norms in project design and implementation • Include participation and civic engagement throughout project cycle• Base design on social analysis• Build community capacity in a learning by doing mode

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Strategic Directions for Research and KnowledgeInnovative research for continued

improvement What is the research evidence regarding when and to what

extent community-driven development is a priority? What are the relationships between social policy and

investment climate and growth? To what extent can and should the Bank’s conflict agenda be

expanded to include street crime, violence, and other issues of personal and physical security?

How can we better track regional trends and emerging patterns of social exclusion, and how might a focus on youth exclusion be a strategic agenda for ensuring strong societies in the medium and long terms?

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Next StepsExternal and Internal consultations on

issues note and strategic directions (ongoing)

Regional strategies (ongoing)Conceptual framework, background,

stocktaking papers (underway)Drafting of Bank-wide strategy (ongoing)Draft of Phase I to OPC/CODE (12/02-

2/03)Final draft to OPC/CODE/Board (9/03,

11/03, 2/04)