Highlights of quarterly meeting between UK executive director to the World Bank and IMF and UK NGOs. Topics covered include CSO access to annual meetings, IMF strategic review, conditionality, anti-corruption and education.
Social services
IFI governance
News
Aumenta la asistencia y disminuye el aprendizaje
La Unidad de Evaluación del Banco dio el visto bueno al Banco por el aumento de niños y niñas que asisten a la escuela primaria y por el acceso de las personas menos favorecidas, pero no dio buenos puntos a los resultados del aprendizaje y al manejo de la educación.
Social services
Background
The World Bank and youth
World Bank and its work on youth
Social services
News
Cape Verde becomes IMF’s third PSI country
On 1 August, the IMF board approved Cape Verde's application for the Policy Support Instrument (PSI)
Accountability
Commentary
Time to listen to Lesotho! - The World Bank and its new anti-corruption agenda
Comment piece by Hennie Van Vuuren on corruption and bribery in the Bank-supported Lesotho Highlands Water Scheme
Environment
News
Bank environmental commitment under fire
Details of the World Bank's current sustainability disasters in light of the dismantling of ESSD
Social services
Commentary
Six reasons why the World Bank should be debarred from education
Author of The State of the Right to Education outlines six reasons why the World Bank is an obstacle for making education all-encompassing, free and compulsory.
IFI governance
News
Evaluation of World Bank support for education says enrolment up, learning down
The Bank's evaluation unit has released a report giving the Bank passing grades on increasing primary school enrolment and access for the disadvantaged, but failing grades on learning outcomes and educational management. Members of the report's external advisory panel say the report failed to address teachers, the impact of HIV/AIDS, and the role of IMF macroeconomic constraints.
Conditionality
News
Inflexibility on aid scale up haunts IMF fiscal conditions
The rigidity of Fund programmes is causing chafing at the collar in governments and civil society organisations in low-income countries, as the debate over the scaling up of aid rages.
Social services
News
Donors fail to ante up for Bank bird flu efforts
According to a June Bank report, a mere $286 million out of the originally pledged $1.9 billion has been committed for avian flu preparedness.
