Throughout its history, the World Bank has reached out to other organizations to build a variety of institutional partnerships geared to promoting social development. Partnerships have been established with governments, private businesses, universities, other donor agencies, and more recently with civil society organizations. These partnerships have ranged from formal agreements and large multi-stakeholder programs such as the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to informal collaborative efforts on country-level projects.
There are many examples of active Bank-financed partnerships with CSOs in the areas of forest conservation, AIDS vaccines, eradication of polio, rural poverty, micro-credit, and Internet development. Other forms of partnership available today for CSOs include collaborating on development initiatives at the local level, undertaking technical training, working at the Bank, staff exchanges, and bidding for Bank contracts.
This section provides background, information, and institutional contacts for learning about and finding opportunities for World Bank – civil society partnerships. There are examples of Bank – CSO institutional partnerships, how to get involved in Bank-financed projects, how to participate in Bank training activities, how to apply to Bank jobs & staff exchange, how to bid for Bank contracts, and who the Bank’s civil society partners are.
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