Participation & Civic Engagement

Publications in this section have been organized under the sub-categories of: Participation, Public Consultation, and The World Bank and Civil Society. Please click on the appropriate link in the highlight box on the right to access the list of documents.

• The Enabling Environment for Social Accountability in Mongolia
  
  
• Civil Society’s Role in the Governance Agenda in Ecuador: Assessing Opportunities and Constraints (576 KB PDF)
  
  
• Does Community Driven Development Work? Evidence from Senegal, June 2007 (384 KB PDF)
  
  
• Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda, June 2007 (550 KB PDF)
  
  
• Local Government Discretion and Accountability: A Local Governance Framework, June 2007 (2 MB PDF)
  
  
• Accountability in Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Role of Empowerment and Participation, May 2007 (290 KB PDF)
  
  
• Economic Results of CDD Programs: Evidence from Burkina Faso, Indonesia and the Philippines, June 2007 (165 KB PDF)
  
  
• Community Foundations: A Tool for Preservation of Cultural Heritage, April 2007, (165 KB PDF)
  
  
• Civil Society and Peacebuilding: Potential, Limitations and Critical Factors, February 2007 (1.2 MB PDF)
  
  
  A New Social Contract for Peru: an Agenda for Improving Education, Health Care, and the Social Safety Net, January 2006
  
  
• Participation in Policy-Based Lending in Latin America and the Caribbean Region, August 2005
  
  
• Citizen Report Card Surveys: A Note on the Concept and Methodology, February 2004  (115 Kb PDF)
  
  
• From Shouting to Counting, February 2004 (412 Kb PDF)
  
  
• Making a Little go a Long Way: How the World Bank's Small Grants Program Promotes Civic Engagement, September 2003
  
  
• Social Accountability: An Introduction to the Concept and Emerging Practice (198 Kb PDF)