Webinar | How to Engage the World Bank around Children's Rights

The Bank Information Center is pleased to invite you to the launch of their newly developed guidance on How to Engage the World Bank around Child Rights on Thursday April 13, 2023, 3:30-4:30 pm (CET). 

The World Bank Group is one of the world's most influential development finance institutions. As such, it's worldwide operations can have an enormous impact on child rights, both positive and negative. This tool aims to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) to advocate for child rights in the context of Bank operations and to hold it accountable for project-related harms to children. 

This How to Child Rights guidance sets out the basics of how the Bank functions, how Bank policies consider issues related to child rights, and how to use these policies to hold the Bank accountable. It also offers guidance, illustrative case studies, and useful resources to help CSOs understand how to:

• influence the Bank’s lending positively for children; 
• advocate for change within the framework of a specific project that might be directly or indirectly negatively affecting children; and 
• seek remedy for children when harm has occurred as a result of a Bank project.  

Panelists:

• Elana Berger, Executive Director, Bank Information Center 
• Suraj Koirala, Managing Director, TPO Alliance
• Moses Ntenga,  Founder and Director,  Joy for Children 
• US government (TBC)
• Julie Murray, Lead Advocate, Democracy, Rights and Governance, Save the Children US

Moderator: Agustina Perez, Child Rights Campaign Manager, Bank Information Center 

This guidance is developed as part of the How to Child Right series, a series of practical, high quality, tried and tested tools initiated by Save the Children in collaboration with Child rights Connect and a broad range of trusted partners to support effective and innovative programming and advocacy to hold States’ to account for children's rights across the sector.

The webinar will be interpreted and recorded in French, Spanish, and Arabic.