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Social Development Strategy, April 2002
The World Bank Social Development
StrategyBackground
Why have a strategy? What is the demand? Who is it for? What is it – descriptive or prescriptive? What is the process?
Social Development Strategy, April 2002
Concepts and Definitions
Social development means development of society.
The goal of social development is a society that enables people, especially poor people, to take actions to help themselves.
The social dimensions of development --Empowerment Inclusion Security
-- help make societies equitable, productive and sustainable.
Social Development Strategy, April 2002
Why is attention to social dimensions
important?
Economic Dimensions
Social Dimensions
Two sides of the poverty reduction coin
Social Development Strategy, April 2002
Social development completesa virtuous circle….
… that leads to sustainable poverty reduction
Economic Dimensions
Social Dimensions
Empowerment + Inclusion + Security
Participation + Inclusion
Investment Climate + Growth
Pro-poor Growth
Social Development Strategy, April 2002
And makes development
more sustainable
Responsive to poor peoples’ needs and aspirations, and the development contextReliable in efficiently delivering what it promises building social capitalResilient to shocks, providing lasting benefits
Economic Dimensions
Social Dimensions
Social Development Strategy, April 2002
Policy/Strategy
Social Development Context in the Bank
Advocacy
Operations
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What have we done and how well?
Advocacy
Policy
OperationsConflict Prevention
and Reconstruction
Civic EngagementSocial Analysis
CDD
Gender
Safeguards
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Strategic Directions
Overview Directions for advocacy Directions for strategies, policies
and policy-based lending Directions for projects and programs Directions for research and
knowledge
Social Development Strategy, April 2002
In Strategies and Policies
Building principles of CDD into appropriate strategies Promoting devolution of decision making Promoting access to information (and we should walk
the talk) Improving governance at the project and policy level
through participatory m&e and social accountability measures
Promoting legal and judicial reform for non-violent solutions
Including conflict resolution in CDD Helping to adjust reforms to minimize/manage social risk
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In Projects and Programs: Social Dimensions as Ends in
ThemselvesEither new forms of projects or adjust existing types of projects and programs with social development core objectives
• Develop portfolio to promote empowerment, inclusion,
security• Promote local governance aspects in infrastructure, natural resource management and human development• Include measures to improve social accountability and transparency in public sector management projects
Social Development Strategy, April 2002
In Projects and Programs: Social Development as a Means to Other Objectives and for Sustainability
Changing the project preparation and implementation processes:
• Consider both formal institutions and informal behaviors and norms in project design and implementation • Include participation and civic engagement throughout project cycle• Base design on social analysis• Build community capacity in a learning by doing mode
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Strategic Directions for Research and KnowledgeInnovative research for continued
improvement What is the research evidence regarding when and to what
extent community-driven development is a priority? What are the relationships between social policy and
investment climate and growth? To what extent can and should the Bank’s conflict agenda be
expanded to include street crime, violence, and other issues of personal and physical security?
How can we better track regional trends and emerging patterns of social exclusion, and how might a focus on youth exclusion be a strategic agenda for ensuring strong societies in the medium and long terms?
Social Development Strategy, April 2002
Next StepsExternal and Internal consultations on
issues note and strategic directions (ongoing)
Regional strategies (ongoing)Conceptual framework, background,
stocktaking papers (underway)Drafting of Bank-wide strategy (ongoing)Draft of Phase I to OPC/CODE (12/02-
2/03)Final draft to OPC/CODE/Board (9/03,
11/03, 2/04)