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April 23, 2003
World Bank On Civic Particpation
Reading about Civic Participation on the World Bank webpage found the following statment, "Nowadays, citizens increasingly demand a governance scheme free of bureaucratic and administrative corruption, patronage, nepotism, diversion of public funds and stealing of public assets; a governance schemes that promotes development and equity. It is, citizens are demanding more participation in the decision-making process of public policies, as well as on their implementation and follow-ups." It is interesting that the World Bank has linked civic participation to quality growth. The association that to ensure quality civil society it will take a certain level of participation developing programs to increase civic participation within that society.
The World Bank had the following recommendations:
1. ensuring public access to government information;
2. requiring certain types of government meetings to be open to public observation;
3. conducting public hearings and referenda con drafts, decrees, regulations, laws;
4. publishing judicial and legislative decisions and keeping a registry;
5. ensuring freedom of the press by prohibiting censorship, discouraging use by public officials of libel and defamation laws as a means for intimidating journalists, and encouraging diversity of media ownership;
6. involving civil society to monitor its performance in areas such as anti-corruption and large-scale public procurement bidding, and
7. using new web-based tools on the Internet for transparency, disclosure, public participation and dissemination of information.
221 words posted by nels lindahl at 08:27 PM
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