The Social Dimensions of Development Effectiveness : World Bank Strategic Priorities for Social Development

1. The Social Dimensions of Development Effectiveness:World Bank Strategic Priorities for Social Development Steen Lau Jørgensen Director, Social Development World Bank

2. What is “social development”? How should the World Bank support it?

3. In 2002 an illiterate woman took part in a CARE program to train communities how to monitor health services using a community score card: keeping track of drug supplies, and assessing the quality of service by staff. • She got very good at it… • How many drugs were supplied to the center? • How were given to patients? • How many were available? • How were staff treating patients? • Health staff know that they will be evaluated every six months • Ministry takes note of the evaluations • Change in performance is dramatic Drugs delivery was a huge problem throughout Malawi Complete turnaround in performance of this health center within 6 months when the score card exercise was repeated An example from Mchinji, Malawi…

4. The CARE program was expanded throughout Malawi • When the program was being introduced to the Malawi Social Action Fund this illiterate woman was asked to present it • Clear • Articulate • Powerful An example from Mchinji, Malawi…

5. Cohesion: Strengthening community fabric so that members can work together The village in Mchinji worked together to solve problem Accountability: Developing ways for people to exercise voice to authorities An illiterate woman gave voice to community What is social development? Inclusion: Putting people at the center of development Involved an illiterate woman in Mchinji

6. A village A district A national program Why not the world? What is social development? One illiterate woman

7. How Does the World Bank Support Social Development? • Principles • Inclusion. Putting people at the center of development • Cohesion. Strengthening communities so people can work together • Accountability. Developing ways for people to exercise voice to authorities, and for authorities to respond

8. How Does the World Bank Support Social Development? • Business Lines • Social analysis • Participation and Civic Engagement • Community Driven Development • Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction • Social Safeguards

9. How does the World Bank “do” social development? • Social analysis • E.g., what social norms about girls education are relevant for achieving universal primary education? • E.g., what is the likely social impact of land reform in Zambia?

10. How does the World Bank “do” social development? • Participation and Civil Engagement • In Uganda, support public debates of policy changes proposed through dialogue with World Bank • In Albania, support legal changes in enabling environment for civil society

11. How does the World Bank “do” social development? • Community Driven Development • E.g., in Indonesia, provide resources to communities that take initiatives to develop local development plans • E.g., In North East Brazil, support community involvement in budgeting

12. How does the World Bank “do” social development? • Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction • E.g., help rebuild infrastructure, economies and societies in Afghanistan, Congo, Somalia

13. How does the World Bank “do” social development? • Social Safeguards • E.g., protect interests of indigenous peoples and involuntarily resettled persons

14. Social Development Works • Review from World Bank external evaluation department shows that attention to social dimensions makes projects work better

15. Accelerating the trajectory • Heading in the right direction • Portfolio that includes SD increased as has quality of attention to SD issues in other projects • Strategic priorities to go further: • Strengthen policy dialogue and lending • Improve project effectiveness – by mainstreaming and free-standing portfolio • Build on foundation of capacity building, advocacy and research

16. Increase Attention to SD in the Bank's Policy Dialogue and Policy-based Lending • Strengthen multi-stakeholder participation in development and monitoring of macro strategy documents (e.g. PRSP, Bank Country Assistance Strategy) • Improve the social development content of policy analysis, working from positive experiences with Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) and social capital studies. • Improve content of policy-based lending • E.g., budget transparency conditionality

17. Improve theeffectiveness of Bank-supported investment projects A more systematic approach to social development and stronger follow-through: • Improve multi-stakeholder participation– to include better sustainability and monitoring; • Improve social analysis including efficiency improvements by relying on upstream work ; and • Improve mainstreaming of SD concerns into Bank-financed projects and project components and nurture SD portfolio.

18. Improve capacity building, knowledge sharing, partnership and research • Align research priorities better with operational needs by supporting research that: • explores further the link between the social dimensions of development and economic growth, • refines indicators for social development, and • better evaluates the impacts of social development projects. • Sustain knowledge sharing and partnerships based on better aligned research and clarify the aspects of social development the Bank will address directly. • Strengthen capacity building

19. Next steps • Regional business strategies – first half 2004 • External consultations – first half 2004 • Finalize Bank-wide business strategy – third quarter 2004 • Dissemination after final Executive Directors’ endorsement - possibly late 2004

20. With Your Help…. • We can do more… • We can do better… • We can accelerate our efforts… Please give us your advice