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The World Bank and Reproductive Health Issues
The World Bank has identified reproductive health as a key variable to reduce poverty. It is committed to operationalizing the goals of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, which places reproductive health at the centre of the population and development agenda. The World Bank and its development partners increasingly work through broader frameworks such as the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and Sector-Wide Approaches (SWAps) that have a huge impact on developing countries. EuroNGOs supports its members to understand and influence the World Bank through capacity-building, information-sharing and joint policy activities.
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Course: Accelerating Progress Towards the Health MDGs and other Health Outcomes, 19 – 30 March 2007, Washington, D.C
This new program approaches health outcomes from the demand side through a multisectoral perspective, looking into mechanisms such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), and Sector Wide Approaches (SWAPs). The course underscores the different roles necessary at each different sector for a multisectoral approach, the need for coordination at the central level, and also alignment of donors with national processes - especially budgets - to ensure harmonization. This course will build capacity for developing multisectoral health outcome strategies, emphasizing that better effective interventions, actions and policies exist and that adaptation to the country situation is critical. Webpage.
Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization
Globalization could spur faster growth in average incomes in the next 25 years than during 1980-2005, with developing countries playing a central role. However, unless managed carefully, it could be accompanied by growing income inequality and potentially severe environmental pressures, predicts the World Bank in the recently released Global Economic Prospects 2007: Managing the Next Wave of Globalization. According to the report, growth in developing countries will reach a near record 7 percent this year. In 2007 and 2008, growth will probably slow, but still likely exceed 6 percent, more than twice the rate in high-income countries, which is expected to be 2.6 percent. See http://www.worldbank.org/gep2007.
World Bank-Civil Society Engagement: Review of Fiscal Years 2005-2006
This publication looks at collaboration and dialogue between the Bank and civil society occurred through meetings, consultations, financed projects and regional programmes. The review notes a growing trend of Bank-civil society relations and joint efforts toward poverty reduction. There are also recommendations on how to improve these relations in the coming years. Weblink.
World Bank Report Sees MDG Progress in Africa
The African Development Indicators (ADI) 2006, finds that after decades of setbacks, an increasing number of African countries are lifting a good fraction of their citizens above the poverty line and sending more children to school. But the region still needs help from wealthy nations to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by improving governance, accelerating and sustaining growth and job creation, delivering services, and fighting poverty, according to the report.
2005 Review of the PRS Approach: Balancing Accountabilities and Scaling Up Results
The review represents the outcome of a major effort to analyze the experience of almost 50 countries with the poverty reduction strategy (PRS) approach since its introduction by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in December 1999. Review Synthesis. Read the Full report.
Young People's Comments on Upcoming 2007 World Development Report
Comments from young people around the world on the themes of the 2007 World Development Report on Development and the Next Generation are posted on theWorld Bank's Youthink! Further information about the report is available at:http://www.worldbank.org/wdr2007.
New World Bank Plan to Fight HIV/AIDS, 30 November 2005
To mark World Aids Day 2005, the World Bank has launched a new action plan to fight the epidemic. The Program of Action describes the steps the World Bank will take over the coming three years to strengthen the Bank's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic at country, regional, and global levels, through lending, grants, analysis, technical support and policy dialogue. The Program of Action is drawing on and complementing the Bank's regional HIV/AIDS strategies. Download the paper.
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