A call for participatory decision making: discussion paper on World Bank - Civil Society engagement

Is the World Bank transparent, accountable, and responsive to public concerns?

Civil Society Members of World Bank-Civil Society Joint Facilitation Committee / CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation ,
2005

This paper explores the opportunities for empowering forms of participation in World Bank decision-making. It examines the challenges of public participation in the Bank’s institutional governance, and in its operations at global, national, and local levels. Based on civil society's concern that the Bank ought to be doing more to include citizens in decision-making as well as being responsive to their concerns. The authors argue that the five (5) core principles of participatory decision-making should be applied across all stages of the World Bank’s project/policy cycles with a view towards redressing the profound inequities of voice, access and political power between different interests in development debates.

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