Third Annual Conference of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank, Bern, May 9-11, 2002 : Keynote Speeches
On May 9-11, 2002 the members of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (PNoWB) met in Bern, Switzerland for their Third Annual Conference. The meeting took place in the Swiss Parliament to mark the tenth anniversary of Swiss membership in the...
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| Format: | Speech |
| Language: | English en_US |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/12/6077970/third-annual-conference-parliamentary-network-world-bank-pnowb-bern-may-9-10-11-2002 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24885 |
| Summary: | On May 9-11, 2002 the members of the
Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (PNoWB) met in Bern,
Switzerland for their Third Annual Conference. The meeting
took place in the Swiss Parliament to mark the tenth
anniversary of Swiss membership in the Bretton Woods
institutions. The attendance of 104 Members of Parliament
from 42 countries helped to firmly establish the
Parliamentary Network of the World Bank (PNoWB) as a
parliamentary sounding board. The meeting underscored the
important role that Parliamentarians play in international
development. In the various sessions of the conference two
themes recurred: implementation and governance. The
participants of the conference were challenged by World Bank
President James Wolfensohn to focus on implementing the
international consensus that emerged from the conferences in
Doha and Monterrey and leading up to Johannesburg. He urged
Parliamentarians to invest in their relationships with their
governments to be able to play an active role in
implementing these development initiatives. At the same
time, participants discussed the role that Parliamentarians
could play to strengthen governance structures in developing
countries to create an environment conducive to the success
of development policies. |
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