Message-ID: <01BE9922.6941A480@dialup185-1-36.swipnet.se> Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 19:20:52 +0200 From: Jacky Foo <mailto:foo@SWIPNET.SE> Subject: May 10-June 1999: Comprehensive Development Framework To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Title: Comprehensive Development Framework discussion
Date: May 10 - 30 June
Contact: Kerry McNamara <mailto:Kmcnamara1@worldbank.org>
Registation: email <mailto:majordomo@jazz.worldbank.org> and write :
SUBSCRIBE CDF
URL: http://www.worldbank.org/devforum
The World Bank invites you to join an electronic discussion of the
Comprehensive Development Framework. (For background information on the
CDF, please see the section below. This also gives details of the website
where you can read the proposal and how you can obtain a copy if you don't
have access to the website.) The discussion will start on May 10 and finish
at the end of June. The discussion will be hosted by the World Bank's
"Development Forum" discussion site (http://www.worldbank.org/devforum).
The aim of the discussion is to foster a frank, focused and productive
discussion on the CDF among members of the development community. We are
especially keen to maximize participation among colleagues from developing
countries. The discussion will be conducted by means of a moderated email
list, with messages archived to a Web site. Full details will be sent to
those who sign up to participate.
If you would like to participate, please send an email to the following
address:
mailto:majordomo@jazz.worldbank.org
leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message, type the
following:
subscribe cdf
You will receive a welcome message confirming your subscription. If you do
not subscribe, you will still be able to read the messages at the
Development Forum web site (www.worldbank.org/devforum) but you will not be
able to send messages without subscribing.
We hope you will be able to join us. Please feel free to distribute this
announcement as widely as possible to friends and colleagues, particularly
those in developing countries, who might be interested in participating. We
particularly invite cross-posting of this message to other lists .
Background on the Comprehensive Development Framework
In his Annual Meetings speech in Hong Kong in the fall of 1997, the
President of the World Bank, Mr. Wolfensohn, outlined a vision of the World
Bank as an institution committed to forging closer partnerships with other
actors to enhance development effectiveness. Last year at the Annual
Meetings, he returned to this theme, suggesting the need for a more
integrated approach to development based on a framework articulated and
owned by the country itself.
The Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) builds on these proposals: it
suggests a holistic approach to development that recognizes the importance
of macroeconomic fundamentals, but gives equal weight to the institutional,
structural and social underpinnings of a robust market economy. It
emphasizes partnerships and coordination with civil society, the private
sector and other
development actors. Perhaps most importantly, the country is placed
centrally in the driver's seat, both owning and directing the development
agenda with the support of all the other players.
The CDF is essentially a process: it is not a blueprint to be applied to
all countries in a uniform manner. It is a work-in-progress; not yet
another initiative but a new way of doing business, a tool to achieve
greater development effectiveness in a world challenged by poverty and
distress. The central goal of the CDF is poverty reduction and reaching
targets such as the International Development Goals.
The World Bank is currently in active discussion in about a dozen
countries, exploring ways in which the CDF might be put to the test.
Flexibility has been the key in identifying pilot countries and there has
been close consultation with the World Bank's partners and, obviously, with
the countries themselves. The key requirement is that the country should be
committed to trying what is being proposed. Building the kind of country
ownership of the policy agenda that is envisaged takes time and requires
changes in both recipient countries and among donors. Equally, capacity
building in countries is almost certain to be required in some areas to
realize the objectives of the CDF.
The CDF should open up new opportunities for cooperation. There were
numerous constructive comments following extensive consultation with
multilateral and bilateral agencies, with government ministers and senior
officials and with the private sector and civil society. Many partners have
offered to collaborate with the World Bank in implementing the CDF. This is
critical as the whole framework rests on the premise that the World Bank
need not lead - or even be involved - as long as the process produces the
desired
results.
The Comprehensive Development Framework paper and "Questions and Answers"
can be found on the World Bank's website at
www.worldbank.org/cdf
If you are not able to access this website, you will be able to obtain an
electronic copy of the CDF proposal and the "Questions and Answers" by
email. By Wednesday, May 5 we will send a message to all those who have
subscribed to the discussion list, with instructions on how to order email
copies of the two documents.
------
to receive announcements of E-conferences, seminars, workshops, etc. join
the list ET-CONF. E-mail mailto:listserv@segate.sunet.se and use the subscription
command:
SUB ET-CONF yourfirstname yourlastname
or check out http://segate.sunet.se/archives/et-conf.html