New BWP research finds the Word Bank's approach to Paris alignment is being used to a significant extent to impose ‘green conditionalities' on borrowing countries, especially in the Global South.
Resources
Social services
Analysis
Reforming the World Bank: does the new gender strategy make a difference?, Elaine Zuckerman
An assessment of the impact of the World Bank's new gender strategy.
Social services
Analysis
Failing women, sustaining poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
Looks at women's participation in Poverty Reduction Strategies and their gender content, basing its findings on the case studies of Bolivia, Malawi, Tanzania and the Yemen.
Social services
Analysis
Do Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Address Gender ? A Gender Audit of 2002 PRSPs, Elaine Zuckerman
An audit of the 13 PRSPs produced during 2002.
Social services
Analysis
The advocate’s guide to promoting gender equality at the World Bank
This publication is intended to be a "primer" on World Bank efforts to promote gender equality for all those interested in advocating for women's rights in Bank-funded initiatives. It provides a brief history of Bank efforts to promote attention to gender equality in policies and projects, an assessment of how well the Bank has done in these activities thus far, current thinking at the organization and a description of advocacy efforts previously undertaken by women's organizations and other ext
IFI governance
Background
CIVICUS World Bank Joint Facilitation Committee, Karen Birdsall
Initiative led by CIVICUS on World Bank NGO relations
IFI governance
Analysis
Challenges To The World Bank And IMF: Developing Country Perspectives
Book containing analysis commissioned as part of the G-24 Southern government research programme.
IFI governance
Analysis
Struggling to be Heard: Democratising the World Bank and the IMF, Jennie Richmond
Report showing ground-level effects of poor peoples' lack of voice in the World Bank and IMF.