Social Contracts and World Bank Country Engagements : Lessons from Emerging Practices

Independent Evaluation Group

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: CONFLICT;    SOCIAL CONTRACT;    FRAGILITY;    VIOLENCE;    POVERTY AND SOCIAL IMPACT ANALYSIS;   

RP-ID  :  138995

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

World Bank emphasizes the importance ofsocial contracts to eliminate poverty and boost sharedprosperity. In the 2014 World Bank Group Goals, the WorldBank calls for social contracts that prioritize the poorwhile creating the conditions for equitable growth. Thislearning-oriented evaluation generates lessons from theWorld Bank’s experience using social contract diagnostics tohelp countries reshape their social contracts. It does thisby:(i) evaluating the quality and value added of socialcontract diagnostics; (ii) assessing how social contractdiagnostics are translated into operations; (iii)identifying the risks and challenges of integrating socialcontract diagnostics into operations; and (iv) drawinglessons on how to overcome these challenges. At the countrylevel, this evaluation identified 21 Systematic CountryDiagnostics (SCDs) that use a social contract framing todiagnose and explain complex development challenges such asentrenched inequalities, poor service delivery, weakinstitutions, and why decades of policy and institutionalreforms promoted by external development actors could notfundamentally alter countries’ development paths.