Table i Preliminary Draft Framework for Demand for Good Governance

The table below aims to provide an overview of the range of examples operating at the local, sectoral, and national levels in the field of demand for good governance across the World Bank Group. The set of examples highlighted below do not capture the breadth and depth of DFGG elements underway in the WBG. Nor are the cases chosen to be fully representative of a given country, region, or sector.

Activities Supporting DFGG Functional Elements at Different Levels of World Bank Involvement

Functional Elements / Level of Involvement
Community and Local Government / Sector / National
Information and
Transparency / Opportunities for stakeholders to access disclose & disseminate transparent information and ensure & strengthen public commitments are met
Bangladesh Local Governance Support Project / Azerbaijan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative / Bangladesh DSC III
Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project / Bulgaria Social Investment and Employment Promotion Project / Bangladesh Public Procurement Reform Project
Bosnia Community Development Project / Gabon Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative / Georgia PRSC
Ethiopia Economic Rehabilitation Credit / Haiti Economic Governance Reform Operation I & II / Indonesia Government Financial Management and Revenue Administration Project
Indonesia Corruption and KDP / India Maharashtra Rural Water Supply and Sanitation “Jalswarajya” Project / Indonesia Public Financial Management and Accountability project
Indonesia Kecamatan Development Project(1,2,3 and 3B) / India Orissa State Roads Project / Madagascar Governance and Institutional Development Project
Indonesia Social Capital and Local Governance (ESW) / India Punjab State Roads Sector Project / Peru PDCSAL I
Rwanda Decentralization and Community Development Project / Kazakhstan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative / Peru PSRL II-III
Tanzania Local Government Support Project / Romania Mine Closure, Environmental and Socio-Economic Regeneration Project / Sierra Leone ERRC II
Tanzania Social Action Fund I and II
Timor-Leste Transitional Support Program II
Consultation and Participation / Encourage multi-stakeholder opportunities to input in policies, public spending, and project planning
Albania Community Works 2 Project / Dominican Republic Programmatic Power Sector Reform Loan / Armenia SAC IV
China Poor Rural Communities Development Project / Laos Nam Theun 2 Hydroelectric Project / Africa Regional Justice Strategy
Costa Rica Port-City of Limon Integrated Infrastructure Project / Kenya Investment Climate Reform / Brazil Porte Alegre Participatory Budgeting
Egypt Alexandria City Development Strategy / Mumbai Urban Transportation Project / Cambodia Demand for Good Governance Project
Indonesia Support for Poor and Disadvantaged Areas Project / Papa New Guinea Institutional Strengthening / Lao PDR PRSC I
Morocco National Initiative for Human Development Support Project (INDH) / Peru RECURSO (ESW) / Malawi Third Social Action Fund
Romania Rural Development Project / Peru Rural Roads Rehabilitation and Maintenance Project / Mexico DPL II
Rwanda Decentralization and Community Development Project / Russia Sustainable Forestry Pilot Project / Mongolia Enabling Environment for Social Accountability Assessment
Sri Lanka The Gemi Diriya Program / Rwanda Institutional Reform Credit / Philippines Procurement Reform
West Bank and Gaza Integrated Community Development Project / Tanzania Business Environment Strengthening Program / Tanzania PRSC III
West Bank Palestinian NGO Project III / Vietnam PRSC (I to IV)
Monitoring and
Oversight / Multi-Stakeholder Participation in the Monitoring, Oversight and Implementation of Policies, Programs, Projects, and Services
Bolivia PSAC / Andhra Pradesh Rural Poverty Reduction Project / Ecuador PHDRL II
Bolivia Public Expenditure Monitoring / Bolivia Hydrocarbon Sector Reform and Capitalization Technical Assistance Project / Honduras PRSC
Bosnia and Herzegovina Reconstruction Assistance to Republika Srpska Project / Ethiopia Economic Rehabilitation Credit / Macedonia Legal & Judicial Implementation & Institutional Support Project
India Development Policy Investment Programs / Paraguay Road Maintenance Project / Pakistan Financial Reporting and Auditing I and II
India Rajasthan Mid-Day Meal Scheme / Turkey Programmatic Public Sector Development Policy Loan I / Tanzania Accountability, Transparency + Integrity (ATIP)
Mongolia Sustainable Livelihoods Project / Yemen Water & Sanitation Project / Uganda Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC) I- IV
Ukraine People's Voice Project

Table ii: Project Details

This table is laid out to briefly illustrate how the different functional elements – information and transparency, consultation and participation, and monitoring and oversight - in the project and/or activities within projects highlighted in Table i support demand for good governance at various levels of interactions – community and local, sector, and national. More detailed information can be found on the World Bank’s operations portal.

I. Functional Element: Information and Transparency Activities

A. At Community & Local Government Level

Bangladesh Local Governance Support Project

The Local Governance Support Project supported by the World Bank, UNDP/UNCDP and EU is a phased but systemic approach to supporting government’s own efforts to strengthen local governance, by expanding the autonomy and capacity of local governments while strengthening mechanisms to hold local governments accountable. The system of governance in Bangladesh is continuing to evolve. To date, the missing link in this evolution has been the voice of elected LGs and communities. This project will strengthen these voices in the debates on local governance that is expected to grow in the coming years. It will also strengthen a tier of government that can act as a coordinating point for the delivery of local services.

Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project

The project objective is to enhance social and economic empowerment of the rural poor in Bihar. The project has four components: 1) Community Institution Development will build and strengthen primary and federated social and economic community institutions; 2) Community Investment Fund involves transfer of financial and technical resources to the Community Based Organizations on a demand driven basis for use as a catalyst to improve their livelihoods; 3) Technical Assistance Fund will improve quantity and quality of service provision by public, cooperative, community and private service providers. The fund will also promote use of Public-Private Partnerships in improving the supply of key support services for the community organizations and federations in the areas of institution building, finance and livelihoods enhancement; Project Management will facilitate overall co-ordination, implementation, and financial management, monitoring and learning of the project at state and district levels.

Bosnia Community Development Project

The project (i) supports sub-projects that directly serve the basic needs of the poor; (ii) uses instruments such as CDD or third party delivery instruments that do not rely on central government administration; (iii) promotes greater transparency and strengthens institutions outside central government to build demand for better governance; (iv) scaled-up engagement with stakeholders outside central government, including via more Bank support for public participation in policymaking & oversight and participatory local governance.

Ethiopia Economic Rehabilitation Credit

The ERSC provided essential financing to enable the recovery of the post-conflict Ethiopian economy. It also supported the implementation of key actions of a reform program formulated in the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP). Specific objectives: (i) improving governance through cross-cutting public sector reforms; (ii) strengthening public expenditure policy and management; (iii) fostering private sector development and increasing export competitiveness.

Indonesia Corruption and Kecamatan Development Project

This TF will support a quantitative analytical study of various interventions examining how increases in participation and transparency/information dissemination in villages impact on incidences of corruption. This study hypothesizes that increases in participation and information will reduce corruption. Though anecdotal evidence is plentiful, statistically reliable evidence is needed to be convincing. This study will begin to provide such.

Indonesia Kecamatan Development Project(1,2,3 and 3B)
The Project is part of a long-term village level governance program and includes the objective of institutionalizing participatory processes in local government.

Indonesia Social Capital and Local Governance (ESW)

The ESW is an analysis of crisis impacts at local level, role of institutions in coping, and changes in institutional landscape, including impact of political development at local level interactions between community and government institutions. It aims to promote local level transparency, and share knowledge and information of analytical work on civil society and local governance engagement

Rwanda Decentralization and Community Development Project

The Decentralization and Community Development Project (DCDP) will consolidate a framework in four entire Provinces and two Districts in a fifth Province, to boost the emergence of a dynamic local economy, through communities who are empowered to lead their own development process under an effective local government. This is a key plank in the national poverty reduction strategy and is underpinned by the Government’s decentralization policy. The project therefore contributes to Rwanda’s long term goal for decentralization and a realigned mandate for central government, through the empowerment and improved accountability of local governments and communities.

Tanzania Local Government Support Project

The development objectives of the Local Government Support Project (LGSP) are: to strengthen fiscal decentralization, improve accountability in the use of local government resources, and, improve management of intergovernmental transfers systems; and, to increase access to infrastructure and services in unplanned areas of Dar es Salaam, and improve revenue performance for sustainable operations and maintenance.

B. At Sector Level

Azerbaijan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

No project detail available as of yet. Project aims to enhance transparency of the extractive industry sector.

Bulgaria Social Investment and Employment Promotion

The project directly serves the basic needs of the poor. It uses instruments such as third party delivery that do not rely on central government administration. It promotes greater transparency and strengthens institutions outside central government to build demand for better governance.

Gabon Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

No project detail available as of yet. Project aims to enhance transparency of the extractive industry sector.

Haiti – Economic Governance Reform Operation I & II

A component of this operation contains civil society monitoring of economic governance reforms in the areas of budget transparency, anticorruption strategy, public procurement reform, reform of public enterprises, and public-private partnerships in health and education.

India Maharashtra Rural Water Supply and Sanitation

The development objectives of this investment loan project are to: (i) increase rural households' access to improved and sustainable drinking water supply and sanitation services; and (ii) institutionalize decentralization of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) service delivery to rural local governments and communities. It wills use community score cards and report cards to monitor the sector and its utilities.

India Orissa State Roads Project

The project aims to support the implementation of India-wide RTI Legislation enhancing governance, transparency and anti-corruption.

Kazakhstan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

No project detail available as of yet. Project aims to enhance transparency of the extractive industry sector.

Romania Mine Closure, Environmental and Socio-Economic Regeneration Project

The Romania Mine Closure, Environmental and Scio-Economic Regeneration Project aims to strengthen the Government's ability to undertake mining sector reform by (1) building the capacity of the Ministry of Economy and Commerce for closing uneconomic mining enterprises through support for closing complex mines and ancillary enterprises in an environmentally sustainable manner; and (2) providing support to the National Agency for Development and Implementation Reconstruction Programs for the Mining Regions, local communities, and other agencies for community-based planning and socio-economic regeneration of the mining regions. The project consists of two components: Component A, Mine Closure and Environment Improvements, and Component B, Socio-Economic Regeneration of Mining Communities.

C. AT National Level

Bangladesh DSC III

This operation supported the implementation of ‘access to information laws’ and participatory consultations in preparation for the police reform. Established multi-stakeholder committee to review NGO regulatory framework

Bangladesh Public Procurement Reform Project (Public disclosure at project level)

The Project aimed to help lay the legal framework for public procurement in Bangladesh; and establish the basic infrastructure for an IT based information system that would link line agencies to the Government's Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU), situated within the Planning Department.

Georgia PRSC

Use of citizen report cards to strengthen the voice of users in service delivery in education, health and social protection services and supported the implementation of ‘access to information laws.’

Indonesia Government Financial Management and Revenue Administration Project

The Project aims to strengthen the effectiveness, transparency and accountability of national government spending and support and strengthen entities functioning as strategic "checks and balances" in the broader governance and accountability framework. ; and, 4) the Project Governance and Implementation component will support ownership, sustainability, and coordination activities. A PHRD co-financing grant, under the Project also financed a component to strengthen parliamentary capacity for budget oversight.

Indonesia Enhancing Demand for Legal and Judicial Reform

This technical assistance program will develop an integrated model of demand-driven legal and judicial reform. It will support analytical and policy work on justice reform; develop pilots to support legal empowerment and trial approaches to be scaled up through national poverty programs; support the consolidation of reformers ' group in the legal and business communities and also develop a longer-term three year proposal which will combine Justice for the Poor and the reformers groups in a strategic partnership with the UNDP and the University of Leiden to enhance demand for legal and judicial reform. Target groups include the government, business community, legal professionals, and disadvantaged community members.

Madagascar Governance and Institutional Development Project

The Project assists in improving accountability and transparency of Government operations; establishment of an independent internal audit function in the Ministry of Finance and Budget; strengthening of other control functions; transformation of the Office of the Auditor General; and strengthening the public procurement system to international standards.

Peru PDCSAL I

Project supported congress approval of Transparency and Access to Public Information Law and its regulation

Peru PSRL III

Project supported congress approval of Transparency and Access to Public Information Law and its regulation.

Sierra Leone ERRC II

The project supported the publication of the results of participatory public expenditure tracking surveys in order to create citizen awareness around the quality and effectiveness of service delivery.

Tanzania Social Action Fund (I & II)

The Project aims to empower communities to access opportunities so that they can request, implement, and monitor sub-projects that contribute to improved livelihoods.