Global Partnership for Disability and Development The World Bank 20 – 21 May 2004

1. Global Partnership for Disability and DevelopmentThe World Bank20 – 21 May 2004 Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and Development Olav Hæreid Seim, Senior Adviser Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2. Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and Development • 1998 White Paper on People with Disabilities, Participation and Equality. Ministry of Health and Social Affairs • One section on Norwegian Development Assistance • “In developing countries persons with disabilities are often among the poorest section of the population. The efforts to improve their situation should therefore be specially highlighted in connection with the poverty orientation efforts in development cooperation .... MFA will make efforts to ensure that the international organisations intensify their efforts on behalf of people with disabilities.”

3. Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and Development • In the UN Norway seeks to promote the establishment of internationally accepted and obligatory norms, rules and guidelines that can help secure the rights of persons with disabilities • In the UN and other international organisations Norway support efforts to improve conditions of persons with disabilities • Through bilateral development assistance concrete efforts are made to improve the situation of persons with disabilities • Started a dialogue also with the World Bank, coincided with ongoing work within the Bank

4. Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and Development • 2001 Established Trust Fund for Disability and Development • Initial contribution NOK 3 mill, replenished with NOK 1 mill in 2002 • Overall objective: Awareness raising within the World Bank Group – Advocacy • How to do this in an institution that is a mix of a ”development university” and a lending institution – a bank • Research important, but need to find a link to lending operations

5. Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and Development • Inclusion Fund – bank staff could submit proposals on how to integrate disability into mainstream World Bank programs and projects • Household Survey Data to analyse disability and poverty • Country studies, 2 country studies in each region, issues like labour marked conditions, access to education, health and other social services, pensions • PRSP Source Book and Projects Toolkits • Partnerships – support participation in conferences, sponsor partnerships with other UN-agencies and NGOs/DPOs • Target LDS and Other Low Income Countries

6. Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and Development • Concern, how to move from awareness raising, advocacy to real mainstreaming • The Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (TFESSD) • A multi-donor trust fund providing grant resources for World Bank activities which mainstream environmental, social and poverty reducing dimensions of sustainable development. It is intended to help develop Bank and client country capacity, promote inclusion of these cross-cutting issues into World Bank operations, and foster cooperation between different units in the World Bank and with the United Nations and other external agencies and groups.

7. Norwegian Trust Fund for Disability and Development • TFESSD currently funds more than 130 activities in 80 countries, with 50 percent of the funding going to Africa. Activities are organized into "windows". Four "windows" are now operating, corresponding to the four World Bank sector boards involved: • Environment Window • Social Development Window • Poverty Window • Social Protection • A Call for Proposals for the new Social Protection window has been issued. The deadline to submit proposals was April 2, 2004.

8. Trust Fund for Disability and Development • Proposals should cover activities that: • increase the understanding and knowledge of the extent and impact of the vulnerabilities of children, youth, and disabled persons on human development, poverty reduction and social inclusion; • improve the understanding and knowledge of effective public action on how to redress these vulnerabilities: what policies and services are effective, how they are best organized, and how much they cost; and to integrate issues related to the target groups into macro level, multi-sectoral, and sectoral policy making; • build stakeholder capacity for macro-level, multi-sectoral, and sectoral analytical work and for micro-level impact analysis related to children, youth, and disabled persons.

9. Trust Fund for Disability and Development • Priority will be given to proposals that: • have the potential to make significant development impact; • focus on the priority areas above and are in line with regional priorities; • are technically sound and cost-effective and could be replicable; • show collaboration across the internal sectors within the Bank; • demonstrate in-country demand, collaboration with, and capacity building within institutions in developing countries; support and are integrated with the national Poverty Reduction Strategy and Poverty Monitoring Systems processes in the countries (where relevant/applicable). • adopt an innovative approach; • do not substitute for other funding; • The funds from TFESSD are untied. National partners (experts and institutions), as well as potential partnerships with UN agencies, and Norwegian/Finnish researchers/ institutions should be indicated in the application.

10. Trust Fund for Disability and Development • General Guidelines • Eligible Task Managers: The Trust Fund is Bank executed and proposals can only be submitted by, and task managed by, Bank staff who are accredited to manage trust funds. • Eligible expenditures: Project preparation work will not be funded, nor components which could be funded as part of ongoing operations. Funds cannot be used for staff salaries and staff travel. Eligible expenditures are consultant fees/travel, workshops, training, client equipment, publications etc. Bank procurement regulations apply in all cases. • Eligible countries: The TFESSD is limited to financing activities in countries included in the bottom three categories in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Development Assistance Committee Official Development Assistance (OECD/DAC ODA) • Fifty percent of TFESSD funds shall, according to the legal agreement, go to work in/on Sub-Sahara Africa. Elsewhere, preference will be given to IDA (international Development Association) countries. • Funds release: Work can span up to two fiscal years (FY05-06). While an overall amount is tentatively allocated when the project is approved, funds are released in installments on a need basis and funding beyond the first year will be released based on good performance.