October 9 2008, 11:30am - 1:00pm
Location:
Room MCC1-100
World Bank Main Building
1818 H St., NW Washington, DC
Contact:
- Kirk Herbertson, Associate
This panel examined the practical experiences and challenges of implementing broad community support in a selection of World Bank Group projects and discussed the following questions:
- How does the WBG document and decide whether a client has obtained broad community support?
- What strategies have clients used to obtain broad community support?
Panelists
- Motoko Aizawa, International Finance Corporation
- Amar Inamdar, Compliance/Advisor Ombudsman, IFC/MIGA
- David Owen, World Bank
- Keith Slack, Oxfam America
- Moderator: Isabel Munilla, WRI
Organizers
- World Bank/IMF Civil Society Policy Forum
- Oxfam America
- Center for International Environmental Law
- World Resources Institute
Panel Report
- Summary Report (PDF, 19 pages, 416 Kb) – includes speaker biographies, participant list
- Annex (PDF, 10 pages, 528 Kb) – World Bank and IFC Policies on “Broad Community Support”
