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bicusa.org/ Problem Project Yemen's Program Document Translation Case BIC is no longer actively working on this project. Overview Concerns Financing Action Updates Resources RSS Press Clipping \| 1 March 2010 CSOs help train Bank staff on engaging civil society Amy Ekdawi and Nadia Daar of BIC's Middle East and North Africa Program participate in four training sessions for the World Bank's MENA staff on engaging civil society in the region. This training is part of the Bank's Enhanced Action Plan for the MENA region which includes improved consultations, increased translation, and more engagement with civil society. Read more Update \| 14 January 2010 Inspection Panel case plants seeds of cultural change at World Bank What was at first a seemingly simple and non-provocative Inspection Panel case, has now led the Bank to re-evaluate its relationship with civil society across the MENA region and develop an action plan for engagement. Nadia Daar of BIC's MENA program examines the importance of this development. Read more Press Release \| 12 January 2010 More involvement of stakeholders in Bank operations in Yemen In December 2009, the World Bank held two consultative meetings on the Social Welfare Fund Institutional Support Project with Yemeni civil society. These meetings come in the context of the Bank's MENA Management's Enhanced Action Plan. Read more Update \| 23 September 2009 WB commits to enhanced action plan in MENA region: more translation and better consultations The Inspection Panel is to defer its recommendation to investigate into case of the World Bank's "Institutional Reform Development Policy Grant" to Yemen, until after the implementation of Bank Management's enhanced action plan, which seeks to address concerns raised by the Yemen Observatory for Human Rights in their Request to the Inspection Panel in April 2009. Read more Update \| 27 August 2009 Where is the Inspection Panel's Eligibility Report for the Yemen case? For the first time in Inspection Panel history, an Eligibility Report is being held for board discussion. With little information, we are left wondering what is happening with the investigation into the Yemeni DPL case. Read more Update \| 30 June 2009 The Bank of Babel Read a BIC opinion piece from the FP blog, The Argument, explaining why the World Bank must reconsider its current policies on translation and information disclosure in order to promote substantive civil society engagement. Read more Update \| 30 June 2009 Activist Q&A: Meet Yahya Saleh Mohsen BIC highlights the work of Yahya Saleh Mohsen of the Yemen Observatory for Human Rights. Yahya played an instrumental role in bringing a case to the World Bank Inspection Panel involving the Bank's translation policies in Yemen and beyond. Read more Update \| 16 June 2009 World Bank's Inspection Panel meets with civil society organizations to discuss transparency issues The meeting took place during the Inspection Panel's trip to Sana'a to determine the eligibility of a complaint about Yemeni civil society's inability to access a translation of a key Bank document. Read more Update \| 12 June 2009 Yemeni civil society finally get their translation 1.5 years after the Yemen Observatory for Human Rights first requested a translation of the World Bank's 2008 Development Policy Loan for Yemen, the Bank has finally made this translation available. Read more Update \| 20 May 2009 Yemen's Inspection Panel Case: the up-side of bad news traveling fast Yemeni group files complaint with the World Bank's Inspection Panel and now change might already be in the air? Read more Update \| 22 April 2009 Yemeni group says lack of translation inhibited transparency Yemeni civil society group take their complaint regarding the World Bank's refusal to translate a key program document, to the Inspection Panel Read more Print this page Email this page

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