World Bank and Community Foundations

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World Bankand Community Foundations

• Juraj Mesík
• Senior Community Foundations Specialist
• World Bank, Washington D.C.
• jmesik_at_worldbank.org
• www.worldbank.org

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World Bank Mission

• a world free of poverty
• To fight poverty with passion and professionalism
  for lasting results.

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About The World Bank Group

• one of the world's largest sources of development
  assistance (in fiscal year 2001 US17.3 billion
  in loans to its client countries)
• founded 1944, owned by more than 180 member
  countries represented by a Board of Governors and
  a Washington-based Board of Directors
• Partners government agencies, nongovernmental
  organizations, private sector
• uses its financial resources, its highly trained
  staff, and its extensive knowledge base to
  individually help each developing country onto a
  path of stable, sustainable, and equitable growth

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Millennium Development Goals

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Build a global partnership for development

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World Banks Tools

• Lending Instruments
• Cofinancing, Trust Funds, and Guarantees - help
  members obtain financial assistance from other
  sources.
• Grants - Grant making complements the Bank's
  lending services. Grants are seed money for pilot
  projects with innovative approaches and
  technologies.
• Analytic and Advisory Services - The Bank
  undertakes a broad range of analytic and advisory
  activities to support its development mission.
• Learning Capacity Building - The Bank conducts
  learning and knowledge sharing programs to
  enhance the skills and development of its
  clients, staff, and partners.

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What is community driven development (CDD)?

• CDD is giving control of decisions and resources
  to community groups
• CDD frameworks link
• participation
• community management of resources,
• good governance
• decentralization

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The goals of CDD

• to promote security, opportunity and empowerment
  by
• strengthening accountable, inclusive community
  groups
• supporting broad-based participation by poor
  people in the strategies and decisions that
  affect them
• facilitating access to information and linkages
  to the market and
• improving governance, institutions and policies
  so that local and central governments and service
  providers, including NGOs and the private sector,
  respond to community demand.

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WB and CF What Can the Bank Do?

• To inspire and catalyze their growth as a part of
  our scaling up efforts by
• Increasing awareness about CFs in the Banks
  client countries
• Supporting a favorable legal environment through
  dialogue with client governments
• Exposing stakeholders from the communities in
  client countries to existing CFs
• Providing know-how and training in initial phase
  of CFs development

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WB and CF How Can the Bank Help?

• Providing the seed money to start grantmaking and
  establish track record (but we have to avoid
  risk of killing them by excessive amount of
  easy funds!)
• Offering technical assistance
• Giving them status and prestige among Banks
  partners, opening doors
• Making a long term commitment (for institutional
  development)