Consultations
The World Bank values the views of its client countries, development partners and the wider development community. In listening to such ideas and advice, issues of interest, and suggested ways of operating, we are better positioned to respond to them, whether at the strategic regional and country level or at the specific project level. Ultimately, we believe that a formal consultation process is the best way to facilitate this process, with the hope that it will not only engage our counterparts and key stakeholders but also result in better development outcomes. As such, consultations on the World Bank’s work, particularly those of a corporate or strategic nature that are intended to shape and influence the ways we operate and interact with our counterparts, are vital to ensure we are taking into account the needs and priorities of our key stakeholders in our strategies and related strategic frameworks.
Preparation of the World Bank’s new Urban Strategy and consultations on its key understandings and underpinning messages are no exception to this approach. Indeed, we will seek at some later stage feedback from many of those consulted during the preparation stage on whether we have been responsive to and effective in implementing that strategy.
Within this context, the World Bank’s Urban Strategy Team launched in January 2009 this interactive website to facilitate access to information about the development and preparation of the Urban Strategy, to enable access to recent reports, analysis and documents that will feed into an help shape the strategy, and to provide an easily accessible web-base interface for the provision of feedback electronically through a Discussion Board organized around main themes and issues emerging within the strategy. Notices were sent out to over 1,000 recipients on the Cities Alliance and United Cities and Local Governments membership lists.
In parallel, the Urban Strategy Team launched in April a series of regional and institutional consultations spanning all regions and a large number of international organizations and development partners. Consultations will occur on a "rolling basis" to allow the Urban Strategy Team to consider comments as they are received, share them internally, and incorporate them into the report as it is being drafted. These consultations are expected to span a period through the end of July.
The aim is to use the website to interact in parallel with the consultations taking place via face-to-face briefings or video-conferencing to reach out to the broadest set of stakeholders possible, including client countries and cities, international organizations, donor partners, civil society, academia, and the private sector. These build on upstream discussion meetings starting at the World Urban Forum in November 2008 and Cities Alliance Consultative Group Meetings and Development Partner meetings hosted in Stockholm in January 2009, among other meetings, workshops and venues.
As stakeholders are consulted, presentations and materials will be posted on this website. We welcome our reader's comments and feedback on the Urban Strategy Concept Note and the consultation process.
As stakeholders are consulted, presentations and materials will be posted on this website. We welcome our reader's comments and feedback on the Urban Strategy Concept Note and the consultation process.
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Key Questions for Consultations
1. What should be the World Bank's role in urban development and how can it best assist developing countries in this domain? 2. What areas of focus are most critical to address in the Bank's new Urban Strategy? 3. Building capacity within developing countries, regions and institutions will be crucial to address urban development challenges. How can the World Bank contribute? 4. Taking into account demographic trends, urbanization is a process that is affecting and will continue to affect developing countries. In your view, should priority be placed on addressing existing impacts of urbanization, anticipate impacts that have yet to materialize, or some combination of the two? 5. What areas of specific comparative advantage do you see for the World Bank in addressing urban development challenges? |
General Urban Strategy Consultation Presentation
Regional Consultations
April 20, 2009 Middle East & North Africa Regional Consultations ::: France
May 13, 2009 Briefing of Dr. Ramachandran, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, India ::: World Bank Headquarters
May 22 & May 28, 2009 South Asia Region ::: Delhi & Mumbai, India
June 4, 2009 South African Urban Strategy Workshop ::: South Africa
June 5, 2009 Anglophone Africa Consultations (ALGAF Network with WBI) ::: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, Rwanda, Zimbabwe
June 11, 2009 Francophone Africa Consultations (FAGLAF Network with WBI) ::: Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea, Niger, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania
June 16, 2009 East Asia and Pacific Regional Consultations, Vietnam Urban Forum ::: Vietnam
June 18-23, 2009 East Asia and Pacific Regional Consultations ::: Beijing & Shanghai, China
June 19, 2009 East Asia and Pacific Regional Consultations, Urban Forum ::: Philippines
June 24, 2009 Latin America & Caribbean Regional Consultations ::: Honduras
June 25, 2009 Latin America & Caribbean Regional Consultations ::: Colombia
Donor Partner Consultations
January 2009 Cities Alliance Consultative Group Meetings with UCLG in Barcelona
January 2009 Donor Consultation Meetings hosted in Stockholm, Sweden including EU, Belgian Development Cooperation, GTZ, Norway, and Sweden
April 2009 Consultations with Norwegian and French Governments, Development Agencies, and NGOs
April 22, 2009 German Development Partner Consultations
International Community Based Organization Consultations
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