| Project preparation across the range of the Bank’s commitments has included a determined effort to understand the needs of project beneficiaries in the context of specific project objectives. In most cases such efforts - usually led by Bank staff - have identified stakeholders and their interests through specific exercises that determine the precise scope and nature of civic engagement. In addition many of the projects, in particular the Lviv Water Supply Improvement Project, have by needs disseminated information to beneficiaries as a major strategic component of this civic engagement.
The TB/HIV-AIDS Project, particularly its HIV-AIDS component, has a planned media campaign about HIV-AIDS, while the Social Investment Fund project includes public information and education sub-components to build public support for locally based social services and implementation of them. Practically all the projects rely on regular consultations with their constituent clients. Some barriers to greater civic engagement do exist in these and other projects, including proper evaluation of NGOs and understanding whom they represent; continual assessment of considerations of the local political economy; and identification strategies and coalitions to support the underlying reforms supported by Bank projects.
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