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Title: The Social Dimensions of Development Effectiveness: World Bank Strategic Priorities for Social Development


1
The Social Dimensions of Development
EffectivenessWorld Bank Strategic Priorities
for Social Development
  • Robert S. Chase
  • Senior Economist

2
What is social development?
How does the World Bank support it?
3
An example from Chinje, Malawi
4
An example from Chinje, Malawi
5
What is social development?
Inclusion Putting people at the center of
development Involved an illiterate woman in
Chinje
6
What is social development?
One illiterate woman
7
In 2001, the World Bank began talking to the Laos
government about community-driven development
8
Laos is a very top-down country
9
One of those villages was Nakaikhia in the
Khammouane Province
10
In February 2003, a Bank team came to view
progress
  • Progress was striking
  • Ethnic minorities had chosen
  • to stop foraging in the forests
  • They had started communal backyard gardens
  • They had learned composting
  • They were producing their own vegetables

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The local governor heard what was happening
He visited Nakaikhia in the middle of the night
and the next day announcedan official visit
and made a big thing of the projects success
12
Fast forward to February 2004
World Bank is helping the Nam Theun 2 project
They were discussing withthe State Planning
Committee How to do socio-economic development
13
Fast forward to February 2004
Skepticism ? Buy-in
State Planning Committee Dont think too
much just follow the example of Nakaikhia
village!!!
14
What is social development?
Inclusion Putting people at the center of
development Villagers in Nakaikhia did it
themselves
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What is social development?
The story of Naikaikhia
One government willing to experiment
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How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Social analysis
  • E.g., what social norms about girls education are
    relevant for achieving universal primary
    education?
  • E.g., what is the likely social impact of land
    reform in Zambia?

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How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Participation and Civil Engagement
  • In Uganda, support public debates of policy
    changes proposed through dialogue with World Bank
  • In Albania, support legal changes in enabling
    environment for civil society

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How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Community Driven Development
  • E.g., in Indonesia, provide resources to
    communities that take initiatives to develop
    local kecamatan plans
  • E.g., In North East Brazil, support community
    involvement in budgeting

19
How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction
  • E.g., help rebuild infrastructure, economies and
    societies in Afghanistan, Congo, Somalia

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How does the World Bank do social development?
  • Social Safeguards
  • E.g., protect interests of vulnerable groups

21
World Bank Support to Social Development
  • World Bank accepts and supports global consensus
    that social development matters
  • Official statements
  • Senior management enthusiasm

22
Social Development Works
  • Review from World Bank internal auditing
    department shows that attention to social
    institutions makes projects work better

23
Accelerating the trajectory
  • Heading in the right direction
  • Part of portfolio that takes account of social
    development has gone from 1 to 30 in a short
    time
  • World Bank Social Development strategy priorities
    to get to 100

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What the Bank Has to Offer
  • Commitment to Social Development principles
  • Management support
  • Endorsement from auditors that Social Development
    works
  • Rapidly growing program
  • Energized staff

25
Yet
  • We can do more
  • We can do better
  • We can accelerate our efforts
  • WITH YOUR HELP

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What Can You Do?
  • Support
  • Increase awareness of social development agenda
  • Official encouragement
  • Resources
  • Trust funds
  • Skilled people with practical ideas
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