Parliamentarians

Welcome to the World Bank's website for parliamentarians. The Bank's hub for global parliamentary outreach and activities is based in the European External Affairs Office, and run by the Bank's Development Policy Dialogue Team. The Bank also works with parliamentarians through the World Bank Institute's (WBI) capacity building programs and our country offices and country teams. Our global network of Public Information Services assists in providing World Bank project documents and other key publications. Read more

The World Bank Institute’s Parliamentary Strengthening Program has provided support to parliaments and legislatures around the world for almost fifteen years. This volume describes our more recent activities over the past five years. Read the report.

The report, prepared by the UK's Africa All Party Parliamentary Group (AAPPG), explores the factors that hold African parliaments back and how development partners can best provide support. Read the report.

This guide is a collective work compiling experience Bank wide. It is an attempt to come up with useful tools and responses on how best to engage legislators as agents for change and advocates for development. Read more

Arusha, Tanzania, February 28-29, 2007 - The World Bank together with the PNoWB and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) organized a Seminar that gathered parliamentarians from major EITI countries in Africa. More information.

February 21, 2008  - The World Bank Parliamentary Unit jointly with the CGIAR and the PNoWB, organized a conference on “Agriculture for Development”. The meeting gathered parliamentarians from Europe, America and Africa with the lead author of the report. More information.

February 6-7, Washington, DC - Marwan Muasher, Senior Vice President for External Relations, invited a 12 person delegation of Members of the European Parliament to meet with President Robert Zoellick & members from the Bank and IFC senior management teams. More information.

NEWS! March 31, Dakar, Senegal - Africa needs stronger parliaments to monitor aid.

NEWS! March 17, Paris, France - Hearing of the Economic Affairs and Development Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on "Mobilizing Parliaments in the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)"

NEWS! March 16-18, Ljubljana, Slovenia - Conference of Foreign Affairs Committee Chairpersons of the EU Member States, the European Parliament and the Parliaments of the Candidate Countries.

NEWS! February 21, Niamey, Niger - Parliamentarians Review the Parliament’s Role in Niger

NEWS! February 18, Finland - Finnish MP, Kimmo Sasi, Member of the PNoWB, will be the Rapporteur of a report on : The Role and Relevance of the World Economic Institutions in an Era of Globalisation

NEWS! February 6-7, 2008 - Members of the European Parliament Visit the World Bank  

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