World Bank Office Bangkok

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World Bank Office Bangkok

• Cambodia and Lao PDR
• Poor countries, eligible for IDA (concessional
  loans),
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and lending
  through Poverty Reduction Support Credits
• Governance/accountability issues,
• Malaysia, Thailand
• Middle income
• Minimal lending
• Partnership for analytical work
• Burma
• No lending
• Regional Gender Coordination for all East Asia

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Social Development in East Asia

• Inclusion, cohesion, accountability through
• Working with civil society
• Supporting implementation of countries gender
  policies
• Safeguards and development approaches for ethnic
  minorities
• Social capital, local governance and institutions

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A. Civil Society

• Providing opportunities to participate in policy
  dialogue through PRSP and consultations
• Enhancing social accountability by supporting
  monitoring by civil society
• E.g.Perceptions of Corruption survey by Center
  for Social Development in Cambodia
• Learning more about how small local NGOs work
  through a small grants program
• 6 8 grantees a year in Cambodia, Thailand and
  Lao PDR
• Civil society assessments to map out partners and
  capabilities

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B. Gender

• Country Gender Assessment together with ADB,UN
  agencies and bilaterals
• Complete for Cambodia, on-going in Lao, Women
  and Men in Development in Thailand
• Gender in policy dialogue, planning and budgeting
• Support for PRSP preparation and monitoring
• Grant-funded project on gender budgeting with
  UNIFEM in Cambodia
• Gender in project implementation
• E.g. Land titling projects in Camb and Laos, time
  use studies for rural livelihoods project, gender
  and transport workshop in Lao
• Support advocacy through small grants program

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C. Ethnic Minorities

• Safeguards
• E.g. Nam Theun 2, roads, health, education,
• Capacity building through dialogue on safeguards
  policies, workshops etc.
• Policy Impacts
• Impact of policies on ethnic minorities e.g land,
  village consolidation etc.

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D. Social capital, local governance and
institutions

• Analytical work
• Impact of Social Investment Fund on social
  capital in Thailand
• Village dispute resolution and access to justice
  in Cambodia
• Community Driven Development
• Implementation support to projects

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Regional Gender Program

• Support Country Gender Coordinators in each
  country including China, Indonesia, Philippines,
  and Vietnam
• Mostly decentralized to country
• Systematic integration in projects
• Variable integration in PRSP
• Some stand alone analytical and projects
• Gender assessments
• Female migrant worker research and widows project
  in Indonesia
• Joint names land certification in Vietnam
• Gender monitoring and evaluation in Philippines
• Gender and poverty linkages in China