Citizen Engagement: An Independent Review of the World Bank's Commitments in Pakistan
How and to what degree is the World Bank putting its new institutional citizen engagement commitments into practice?
Abstract
How and to what degree is the World Bank putting its new institutional citizen engagement commitments into practice? This question guides an initiative undertaken by the Accountability Research Center (ARC) at American University as part of the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) investigation into how external actors can best support local processes of and conditions for empowerment and accountability. This report provides a pilot assessment of the first step in this process—the specific citizen engagement (CE) commitments in World Bank projects at the design stage. This kind of in-depth analysis is necessary but not sufficient to assess whether and how the World Bank and government partners actually implement those commitments. For this pilot assessment ARC reviewed the World Bank’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2015–17 investment project portfolios for four A4EA priority countries: Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria and Pakistan, which covers 57 projects that range from US$19 million to over US$600 million. The country assessment presented here focuses on Pakistan, which over this three-year period has 22 active operations that range from US$19 million to over US$390 million.
This work is part of the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) programme
Citation
Sah, A. and Nadelman, R. (2019) ‘Citizen Engagement: An Independent Review of the World Bank’s Commitments in Pakistan’, Washington DC: Accountability Research Center
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