Global Partnership for Disability and Development The World Bank 20

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Global Partnership for Disability and
DevelopmentThe World Bank20 21 May 2004

• Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and
  Development
• Olav Hæreid Seim, Senior Adviser
• Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and
Development

• 1998 White Paper on People with Disabilities,
  Participation and Equality. Ministry of Health
  and Social Affairs
• One section on Norwegian Development Assistance
• In developing countries persons with
  disabilities are often among the poorest section
  of the population. The efforts to improve their
  situation should therefore be specially
  highlighted in connection with the poverty
  orientation efforts in development cooperation
  .... MFA will make efforts to ensure that the
  international organisations intensify their
  efforts on behalf of people with disabilities.

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Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and
Development

• In the UN Norway seeks to promote the
  establishment of internationally accepted and
  obligatory norms, rules and guidelines that can
  help secure the rights of persons with
  disabilities
• In the UN and other international organisations
  Norway support efforts to improve conditions of
  persons with disabilities
• Through bilateral development assistance concrete
  efforts are made to improve the situation of
  persons with disabilities
• Started a dialogue also with the World Bank,
  coincided with ongoing work within the Bank

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Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and
Development

• 2001 Established Trust Fund for Disability and
  Development
• Initial contribution NOK 3 mill, replenished with
  NOK 1 mill in 2002
• Overall objective Awareness raising within the
  World Bank Group Advocacy
• How to do this in an institution that is a mix of
  a development university and a lending
  institution a bank
• Research important, but need to find a link to
  lending operations

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Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and
Development

• Inclusion Fund bank staff could submit
  proposals on how to integrate disability into
  mainstream World Bank programs and projects
• Household Survey Data to analyse disability and
  poverty
• Country studies, 2 country studies in each
  region, issues like labour marked conditions,
  access to education, health and other social
  services, pensions
• PRSP Source Book and Projects Toolkits
• Partnerships support participation in
  conferences, sponsor partnerships with other
  UN-agencies and NGOs/DPOs
• Target LDS and Other Low Income Countries

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Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and
Development

• Concern, how to move from awareness raising,
  advocacy to real mainstreaming
• The Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially
  Sustainable Development (TFESSD)
• A multi-donor trust fund providing grant
  resources for World Bank activities which
  mainstream environmental, social and poverty
  reducing dimensions of sustainable development.
  It is intended to help develop Bank and client
  country capacity, promote inclusion of these
  cross-cutting issues into World Bank operations,
  and foster cooperation between different units in
  the World Bank and with the United Nations and
  other external agencies and groups.

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Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and
Development

• TFESSD currently funds more than 130 activities
  in 80 countries, with 50 percent of the funding
  going to Africa. Activities are organized into
  "windows". Four "windows" are now operating,
  corresponding to the four World Bank sector
  boards involved
• Environment Window
• Social Development Window
• Poverty Window
• Social Protection
• A Call for Proposals for the new Social
  Protection window has been issued. The deadline
  to submit proposals was April 2, 2004.

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Trust Fund for Disability and Development

• Proposals should cover activities that
• increase the understanding and knowledge of the
  extent and impact of the vulnerabilities of
  children, youth, and disabled persons on human
  development, poverty reduction and social
  inclusion
• improve the understanding and knowledge of
  effective public action on how to redress these
  vulnerabilities what policies and services are
  effective, how they are best organized, and how
  much they cost and to integrate issues related
  to the target groups into macro level,
  multi-sectoral, and sectoral policy making
• build stakeholder capacity for macro-level,
  multi-sectoral, and sectoral analytical work and
  for micro-level impact analysis related to
  children, youth, and disabled persons.

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Trust Fund for Disability and Development

• Priority will be given to proposals that
• have the potential to make significant
  development impact
• focus on the priority areas above and are in line
  with regional priorities
• are technically sound and cost-effective and
  could be replicable
• show collaboration across the internal sectors
  within the Bank
• demonstrate in-country demand, collaboration
  with, and capacity building within institutions
  in developing countries support and are
  integrated with the national Poverty Reduction
  Strategy and Poverty Monitoring Systems processes
  in the countries (where relevant/applicable).
• adopt an innovative approach
• do not substitute for other funding
• The funds from TFESSD are untied. National
  partners (experts and institutions), as well as
  potential partnerships with UN agencies, and
  Norwegian/Finnish researchers/ institutions
  should be indicated in the application.

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Trust Fund for Disability and Development

• General Guidelines
• Eligible Task Managers The Trust Fund is Bank
  executed and proposals can only be submitted by,
  and task managed by, Bank staff who are
  accredited to manage trust funds.
• Eligible expenditures Project preparation work
  will not be funded, nor components which could be
  funded as part of ongoing operations. Funds
  cannot be used for staff salaries and staff
  travel. Eligible expenditures are consultant
  fees/travel, workshops, training, client
  equipment, publications etc. Bank procurement
  regulations apply in all cases.
• Eligible countries The TFESSD is limited to
  financing activities in countries included in the
  bottom three categories in the Organization for
  Economic Cooperation and Development Development
  Assistance Committee Official Development
  Assistance (OECD/DAC ODA)
• Fifty percent of TFESSD funds shall, according to
  the legal agreement, go to work in/on Sub-Sahara
  Africa. Elsewhere, preference will be given to
  IDA (international Development Association)
  countries.
• Funds release Work can span up to two fiscal
  years (FY05-06). While an overall amount is
  tentatively allocated when the project is
  approved, funds are released in installments on a
  need basis and funding beyond the first year will
  be released based on good performance.