- 14.12.2021
In December 2021, 14 civil society organisations jointly submitted feedback to the World Bank online consultation on the 2021 Development Policy Financing Retrospective, which covers the period 2016-2021. This joint submission touches on four points:
- It raises issues with the Retrospective consultation process and its weak and superficial engagement with civil society
- It highlights overarching concerns with the Development Policy Financing (DPF) instrument and its reliance on conditionality
- It discusses evidence in four key thematic issues where the World Bank is attempting targeted policy interventions via DPF (including climate change, gender, fiscal consolidation and business environment
- It provides recommendations.