Roundtable on Transparency

1
World Bank Activities on Governance, Public
Management Anticorruption in the Middle East
North Africa

• Roundtable on Transparency Integrity in MENA
• World Bank Institute Marseilles
• May 26-27, 2005

2
Modalities for Bank Assistance

• Knowledge Management
• exchange dissemination
• Analytic Work
• policy notes to major products
• Technical Assistance
• BB, trust funds, etc.
• Lending
• investment adjustment

3
Knowledge Management

• Facilitate, with major partners, coalitions of
  schools of public administrations, universities,
  and think tanks for integrating anticorruption
  courses in official curricula (M-PIEN)
• Foster partnerships with global doers in
  anticorruption and transparency (OSI)
• Strengthen the capacity of technical partners to
  produce knowledge
• Leverage European partners and institutions to
  develop joint programs (DfID)

4
Analytic Agenda

• Regional
• TI Perception Index
• Other Cross Country Assessments (KKM, etc.)
• Focused Comparative Work

• Country Level
• Survey Work
• Business Environment
• Legal Regulatory Framework
• Key Accountability Institutions
• Other Institutions (Parliament)
• Education Training

• Agency Level (Revenue, Expenditure Regulatory)
• Audit Reports
• Risk Vulnerability Assessments
• Client Surveys
• Employee Surveys Focus Groups

5
Technical Assistance Examples

• General
• Parliamentarian Information Handbook
• Parliamentary Guidebook for Budget Transparency
  Oversight
• Access to Information Legislation Assistance
• Country-Specific
• West Bank-Gaza Anticorruption Report
• Morocco Freedom of Information Diagnosis
• Yemen COCA Re-engineering

6
Lending Examples

• Investment Lending
• Jordan Public Sector Reform Capacity Building
  Loan (General)
• Adjustment Lending
• West Bank Gaza Financial Management Reform
  Trust Fund (General)
• Andhra Pradesh Structural Adjustment Loans I II
  (Specific Anticorruption Components)