Network of Environment and Social Safeguards Professionals

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Network of Environment and Social Safeguards
Professionals

• World Bank Office Manila
• June 14, 2005

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Who are we?

• Group of people engaged in the same line of
  profession or a shared professional practice
• Common professional interests
• Sustained pursuit of a shared enterprise
• Shared sense of vision and meaning
• Coming from multiple and diverse communities

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Informal networks

• Freedom to say what they want, where people talk
  easily and freely
• Social ties
• Similar purpose and commitment
• Shared work values and ethics
• Reflect and plan together

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• The ultimate glue that binds people together is
  not what they get from the organization but what
  they can contribute to the community

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Community

• mei, meaning change or exchange.
• kom meaning with
• Kommein meaning shared by all
• Community Building is a core strategy for
  sharing among all its members the burdens and the
  benefits of change and exchange

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What do we need?

• Increased internationalization should bring about
  an increase need for knowledge sharing
• Mutual engagement in activities
• Some groups are quite formal while others are
  informal and flexible
• Where knowledge are nurtured, shared and sustained

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Learning Community

• Most effective boundary it extends to the
  geographic community in which the organization
  resides
• Need to build shared vision and plan
• What does the community need to do to thrive in
  the future years?
• How will we flourish, not just survive?
• How do we get every member excited and learning
  about our collective future?

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Core processes

• Core Process 1 Capability
• Skills, knowledge and personal qualities to
  organize a collective undertaking
• Capacity for dialogue to produce breakthrough
  thinking and collaborative innovation

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Core processes

• Core Process 2 Commitment
• be part of the experience of creating something
  the group values together
• willingness to commit to a truly engaging
  purpose, larger than just personal self-interest

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Core processes

• Core process 3 Contribution
• Provide opportunities for the full diversity of
  members talents and contributions to the
  communitys sustenance
• Continue developing and serving the common good

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Core processes

• Core process 4 Continuity
• Allow people to develop continuity and longer
  term accountability for results
• Can be compensated at higher levels, eg., by
  gaining broader range of skills or taking on more
  tasks
• Rotate roles to help members understand the
  rights, responsibilities and practices of the
  learning community

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Core processes

• Core process 5 Collaboration
• Develop reliable interdependence by creating a
  web of multiple constituencies and stakeholders
  engaging, involving and mobilizing members until
  there is a critical mass

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Core processes

• Core process 6 Conscience
• Guiding principles, ethics and values service,
  trust and mutual respect
• Code of practice and responsibilities

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What can the WB provide?

• Communication channels
• Meetings
• Participative events
• Informal gatherings
• Electronic mail and conferencing

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Formative stages

• As a statement of the essence of establishing an
  ESA practitioners network, in what particular
  ways might a community of practice support the
  networks activities?
• What levels of social preparation and group
  dynamics are necessary to sustain this network?

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Formative stages

• What considerations (in addition to shaping the
  organization and building track record,
  practices, and capacity going forward) might the
  practitioners take into account when considering
  the acceptability of setting up an ESAP network? 

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Formative stages

• What additional considerations should guide the
  practitioners in identifying committees or
  sections representing various disciplines or
  interests to ensure that they yield robust
  lessons in sharing knowledge and learning in the
  practice of environment and social assessment for
  scaling up of the practice?  

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Formative stages

• In what ways might the government, the private
  sector, civil society organizations and other
  national and international organizations
  strengthen the ESAP network and encourage ESA
  practitioners to remain committed to this group?