Dialogue with Policy Makers

  
DDVE has managed the World Bank’s dialogue with faith leaders since the creation of the unit in 2000.  As documented in Faith Leaders, a series of important meetings took place between the World Bank and other development organizations and faith leaders, first in 1998 in Lambeth Palace, London and last in Accra in 2009. 

DDVE does not have a similarly broad and explicit mandate at the World Bank to conduct in-depth and systematic dialogue with policy makers, but the unit contributes to this policy dialogue on a case-by-case basis, among others by presenting results from its country-level analytical work in the respective countries through workshops with participation by government ministries, Poverty Reduction Strategy units, as well as other agencies and development partners.  One example is a workshop held in Praia in Cape Verde in December 2008 in collaboration with the National Statistical Office and the Ministry of Planning to discuss preliminary results from work on poverty and targeting with a wide range of government staff, donors, and civil society organizations.  Another example is a workshop held for policy makers in Mali in January 2009 in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the IMF on the impact of the food price crisis and the policy responses considered by the government and donors to respond to this crisis.  In June 2009, DDVE also organized a workshop on social protection programs in Accra in collaboration with UNICEF and the Ministry of Employment and Social Welfare.