World Bank looks to customise Pacific reports
The World Bank is looking at a new approach to its report writing in the Pacific with the aim of producing more relevant and practical feedback and information for development.
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The World Bank wants to ensure that its reports on Pacific countries result in action and don't just sit on shelves gathering dust.
The vice President of the bank for East Asia and the Pacific Axel Van Trotsenburg is currently touring the region introducing the new approach.
Mr Van Trotsenberg told Koroi Hawkins he wants ideas and not organisations to be the drivers of development in the region.
AXEL VAN TROTSENBURG: In the concept, what you are trying to do, is you do not want to have a study for the shelves. What you want to have, is to see how these ideas can ultimately be translated into concrete actions. Secondly, you will have things which are available, think of this, of tourism, think of ICT, many of the things are available. But here are also to see how you can better use it and better adapt it to the Pacific. And then there are more future things that are actually much more difficult to capture because the lack of knowledge. How can one actually think about it. We have seen particularly in the region here that for example, some of the regional approaches could actually pay of in order to avoid that every country has to do it by themselves. Similarly we have seen that in past for example the climate change related activities sometimes you can do something together coordinated that benefits all countries.
KOROI HAWKINS: So what have the response been so far have you discussed this with some stakeholders and partners?
AVT: The way we see this is a very open process, with stakeholders we of course talk as our primary counterparts government but also take advantage of the private sector, the NGOs, we have talked about it with research institutes, we have talked with think tanks, we have talked also with donors and basically the whole concept is, it is targeted and it helps focus. If you want to improve lives, jobs, opportunities in the island countries. And ideas even existing ideas be turned around to greater opportunities. What is preventing this? How can we work in the area together? And also mobilise in that process ultimately international support so that indeed the economic and social opportunities are improved for the affected population. And I think if one takes a step back and focus on ideas you get a lot of very good discussions going.
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