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Presented at:,TI Panel,WBG Annual meetingsOctober 2008

Presented by:Brian Levy

HeadGAC Secretariat

Strengthening WBG Engagement on Governance & Anti-Corruption:

Year One Implementation

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GAC for Development

Principal GAC Purpose: Enhance Development Effectiveness “don’t make the poor pay twice” Multistakeholder engagement key to GAC reform & development outcome

GAC contributes in diverse ways to development impact Better procurement: Bali urban infrastructure project

31% cost savings for infrastructure Reduced malnutrition: Maharashtra community monitoring pilot

10 percent increase in healthy children in under one year Civil service reform in Macedonia

Meritocratic recruitment: 37% (2004); 64% (2007) Community prioritized & monitored infrastructure in Indonesia

$1.6 billion; 34,000 villages; 30% lower cost; now national poverty program

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GAC in Projects, 2008 Four dimensions of holistic risk management

Upstream diagnosis to identify GAC constraints ‘Defensive’: strengthened fiduciary controls in design &

implementation ‘Proactive: enhanced transparency, participation, 3rd party

monitoring Informed risk-taking – including high-risk, high-return

Philippines 2nd National Roads Improvement Project 2nd opinion from special independent procurement evaluator Capacity enhancement of Dept of Public Works & Highways,

including: procurement controls (bid rigging) audit capacity NGO group, Road Watch, to provide independent oversight on all

roads sector contracting Bank doubles supervision funding

Kenya Aids: NGO transparent, performance-based selection process

India Orissa Rural Livelihoods: Right to Information synergies

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Implementing GAC From Country Strategies to Development Outcomes

Country Strategies (CGAC)

Demand Side

Country Systems

Development Outcomes: Services, Regulations,

Corruption

GAC in Sectors

GAC in Projects

Actionable Governance Indicators

(AGIs)

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