The Women’s Eyes campaign was launched by women’s movements and NGOs to monitor World Bank progress in bringing its lending operations in line with the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing Women’s Summit in 1995.
World Bank Group
Environment
Analysis
Questioning the World Bank/IMF Growth Model
Questioning the Growth Model was a meeting organised jointly by the Bretton Woods Project and…
Environment
News
The Growth Model: Hard Wired and Hard to Change
The World Bank, and the IMF, have difficult missions: poverty alleviation through environmentally sustainable growth.
Gender
News
Questioning the Growth Model - Related Readings
A selected list of materials made available at the Terschelling meeting, and some further relevant publications.
Environment
Analysis
Roleplay Reflections
At noon on the second day of the Terschelling meeting, five of us were lured away from the peak of the discussions to “role-play” a World Bank public consultation.
Infrastructure
News
Energy policy crunch in July
The World Bank’s energy policy paper will come to the Board on 20 July, following two and a half years of discussions.
Knowledge
News
Bank hosts e-discussions
The World Bank has recently been inviting NGOs to engage in a large number of electronic discussions on its website “Development Forum”.
Knowledge
News
Implementing the Bank’s new “Comprehensive Framework”
The Bank has established a secretariat to coordinate work on the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF), the initiative on donor coordination and integrated analysis launched in January.
IFI governance
News
World Bank reports on successes and future tasks
The Bank’s External Affairs team recently published a 14 page document summarising progress during Wolfensohn’s time as President.
Gender
News
Gender policy paper progress
Next year the World Bank will produce a Policy Research Report (PRR) on Gender Development.
Private Sector
News
Elections “don’t matter”: says Indonesia fund manager
Foreigners may not know much about these parties, they may not care much, but at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter who wins as long as the IMF and World Bank are still calling the shots.
IFI governance
News
Reinventing the World Bank
In May Northwestern University, Chicago, and SOAS, London, organised a meeting to examine the World Bank’s mission, operations and research output.
