Engagement with Civil Society : An EITI Implementation Case Study
Within the World Bank Group (WBG), the Oil, Gas, and Mining Policy Division (COCPO) is responsible for policy and advisory services in the oil, gas, and mining sectors, including World Bank lending. The unit also manages WBG participation in a numb...
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/11/11486950/engagement-civil-society-eiti-implementation-case-study http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18232 |
| Summary: | Within the World Bank Group (WBG), the
Oil, Gas, and Mining Policy Division (COCPO) is responsible
for policy and advisory services in the oil, gas, and mining
sectors, including World Bank lending. The unit also manages
WBG participation in a number of donor-funded global
programs and partnerships, including the Multi-Donor Trust
Fund (MDTF) for the Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (EITI). The main finding of this paper is that
the direct support to civil society organization (CSO)
through the Development Grant Facility (DGF) mechanism (July
2005 to June 2008) was well received and met key program
objectives. In particular, DGF funding catalyzed the EITI in
countries by helping strengthen CSO ability to play their
role in the initiative. Working closely with the Revenue
Watch Institute (RWI) during the later part of the DGF grant
cycle helped COCPO build partnerships with CSO. The CSO also
found the strategic nature of the DGF interventions to be
positive, given that the grants allowed them to carry out a
broad range of activities (advocacy, research, capacity
building, and communications) around the sensitive topic of
extractive industries and EITI. |
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