Anti-corruption reform is crucial to making poverty history. Securing sustainable anti-corruption reform requires long-term strategies based on meaningful partnerships that involve civil society playing critical roles in policy and implementation. The Development Committee, meeting on 18 September at the annual meeting of the World Bank, needs to ensure that civil society is assigned an active role at the national and local level as part of the new World Bank strategy to be reviewed here, said Transparency International (TI), the global anti-corruption organisation with national chapters in over 90 countries.
“Assisting countries to curb corruption needs to continue to be a central pillar of global anti-poverty efforts and the World Bank needs to be encouraged to work with an expanding range of partners in this area,” said Huguette Labelle, Chair of Transparency International. “We have provided the Bank with a comprehensive set of comments on its new draft strategy and we look forward to intensive consultations with the Bank as it moves ahead in coming months to implement the operational program that we expect the Development Committee to endorse.”
See full Press Release.
Posts
