Consultations on Bank Group work in Governance and Anticorruption in Albania

The World Bank is moving forward with its strategy to strengthen country-led efforts to improve governance and fight corruption.The Bank's management has been developing a strategy to strengthen the Bank's approach to governance and anticorruption work, and is now moving into the next phase of this process, which includes consulting widely with key groups inside and outside the Bank on the best way to implement the new strategy.

At the same time, the Bank plans to continue to seek the opinions of key external stakeholders, including government officials and law makers; representatives of civil society, business, and academia; and donors. The Bank began gathering feedback on the initial strategy paper in July and is now commencing a second phase of consultations in different member countries, including Albania.

These consultations will help the Bank to develop and implement the governance and anticorruption strategy in a flexible and coherent way across the project, national, and the international levels.

The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors will play a key role in providing oversight during the implementation and operational phases of the strengthened approach to governance and anticorruption. A progress report will be presented to the Board in early 2007 and to the Development Committee before the Spring Meetings in Washington in April.

The World Bank Office in Tirana has embarked the consultation process in early December, seeking feedback on the new strategy, eliciting ideas, best practices, and lessons learned. Several consultations were organized during December with representatives of the Albanian government, parliament, political parties, civil society, private sector and donor community.

In addition to face-to-face and virtual discussions, the Bank is also inviting your written feedback on a set of questions related to global and country-specific issues. To provide your feedback, please click here .

The paper and the set of questions are also available in Albanian. To provide feedback in Albanian, please click here.

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