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World Bank Institute and Global Seminars

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World Bank Institute and Global Seminars

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  1. World Bank Institute and Global Seminars In 2005, the WBI “…engaged more than 100,000 civil servants, development practitioners, parliamentarians, political leaders, civil society groups, and young people in more than 1,000 face-to-face and distance learning activities. Each day WBI delivered 7,000 Web casts and the digital equivalent of 4,000 books.”

  2. World Commission on Water for the 21st Century • Formed in 1998 • Notable founders • Robert McNamara (former Bank president) • Mohamed El-Ashry (CEO of Bank Global Environmental Facility) • Enrique Iglesias (President of Inter-American Development Bank) • Wilfried Thalwitz (former World Bank VP) • Ismail Serageldin (senior WB environmental official) • Jerome Monod (chairman of the board, Suez) • Maurice Strong (former CEO of Petro-Canada)

  3. International water policy think tank formed in 1996 • Circulated “World Water Vision” report calling for privatization • Governed by members of UN, World Bank, CIDA, UNDP, African Development Bank, IUCN, Suez • In 1998, Rene Coulomb (former director of Suez) and William Cosgrove (Bank VP) were VPs of WWC

  4. Formed in 1996 • Funded by bilateral aid agencies, World Bank, UNDP, and Ford Foundation • Notable officials • Chair of steering committee: Ismail Serageldin (former World Bank VP) • Executive Secretary: Emilio Gabbrielli (managing director of Thames Water Do Brazil) • Chair of Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure: Michael Camdessus (former IMF director)

  5. British water NGO formed in 1981 • Notable trustees • Vic Crocker (retired CEO of Severn Trent) • Hugh Speed (VP of Suez) • David Luffram and John Sexton (directors of Thames Water) • Stuart Derwent (Southern Water) • Colin Skellet (chair of Wessex)

  6. Transnational Policy Network on Water: Late 1990s World Bank William Cosgrove John Briscoe Enrique Iglesias Ismail Serageldin World Commission on Water Camdessus Report World Water Council Global Water Partnership WaterAid WBCSD Jerome Monod Margaret Catley-Carlson Rene Coulomb Water Companies Thames Suez Veiola

  7. Organizations and Water Companies Belonging to Water TPN Since 1996

  8. Actively involved in EU research funding • Example: UNESCO-IHE • Water research institute received 300,000 Euros from Suez in 2002 • Suez funded a professorship at IHE in 2003 • Actively involved in teaching, curriculum planning, and supervision and financing of masters students

  9. World Business Council for Sustainable Development Observatoire Social International Corporate Social Responsibility French Committee for Environment and Sustainable Development National Council for Sustainable Development Enterprises for the Environment Forum for Responsible Investment European Foundation for Territorial Sustainable Development Observatoire sur la Responsibilite Societale des Entreprises Paris Council for Sustainable Economic Development Fondation Nicolas Hulot UNESCO Women’s Forum Aquafed Oieau

  10. Mapping Out International Finance in the Bangalore Water Sector JBIC World Bank Bangalore Cauvery Water Supply Stage IV Phase I 28,452 billion yen (completed) Bangalore Cauvery Water Supply Stage IV Phase II 70,355 billion yen (ongoing) Karnataka Municipal Reform Project $216 million 2006-2012 Karnataka Urban Water Sector Improvement Project $39.5 million 2004-2008 GBWASP BWSSB BMP KUIDFC Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environment Management Project 2000-2006 $175 million Karnataka Urban Development Project $80 million 1996-2004 Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion Project (FIRE I) (completed) FIRE II (ongoing) USAID ADB

  11. BATF SURVEY ON IMPROVEMENTS ON CRITICAL PROBLEMS

  12. Interactions with Agencies • Matrix of key `Disablers’

  13. WHAT REPORT CARDS ACHIEVED... • STRENGTHENING CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVES SWABHIMANA MOVEMENT - SERVICE DELIVERY IMPROVEMENTS, ELECTORAL TRANSPARENCY. • CAPACITY BUILDING FOR PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS ADVOCACY NGOs AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS- FEDCOT, SEWA, RKS, UNDP • REPLICATIONS/ADAPTATIONS: BATF, Bangalore; Governance Score Cards - Bangladesh; Social Weather Project - Philippines

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