The World Bank Rolling Back Commitments to Citizen and Civil Society Engagement, Again?

<p dir="ltr">Once again, the World Bank’s commitment to citizen and civil society engagement is being called into question as it drops a decade-old corporate commitment to project monitoring and withholds from the public a 2023 assessment of recent citizen engagement efforts.</p><p dir="ltr">Understanding the Bank’s chequered history with public, community, and civil society participation is key for understanding what is at stake and what to do next.</p><p dir="ltr">In this brief in the Bretton Woods Project’s <i>At Issue</i> series, Rachel Nadelman reflects on the past, discusses roll-backs of progress on citizen participation, and discusses the implications for advocacy strategy.</p>