The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) and the Gender and Development Board (GDB), along with the Regional Vice-Presidencies, organized gender workshops in Manila, Nairobi, Quito, and Warsaw, covering four regions of the Bank’s operations. Several development partners also collaborated in these efforts: in Manila, the Bank's partner was the National Commission for the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), in Nairobi, UNDP and The International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) were co-organizers, in Quito it was the Inter-American Development Bank, while UNIFEM and UNECE collaborated in Warsaw. In addition, the Swiss Agency for Development Corporation (SDC) was involved in all four of the workshops, and without their support none of the above would have been possible.

This series of gender workshops, conducted over eighteen months, served the dual purpose of consulting with civil society and government about their perceptions of the Bank’s gender and development policy and actions, and also strengthened awareness of gender and development issues as viewed by client stakeholders. These consultations fed into IEG ’s Gender Evaluation as well as into the GDB’s revision of the Bank’s gender strategy. Additionally, for the Bank's development partners, the workshops helped to provide forums for addressing gender issues relating to their individual institutions. All four proceedings "chapters" produced from these workshops are based entirely on the presentations given at the workshops as well as on the views of the stakeholders.

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Foreword, IEG Regional Gender Workshops by Jan Piercy

Views of East Asian Stakeholders on Bank Assistance and Gender Considerations
(proceedings from East Asia and Pacific workshop)


Gender and Labor Markets in Transition Countries
(proceedings from Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region workshop)

Gender and Development in Latin America - a story of growing prosperity but increasing inequalities
(proceedings from Latin America and Caribbean Region workshop)

Gender and Agriculture in Africa: Effective Strategies for Moving Forward
(proceedings from UNDP-Africa, World Bank and ISNAR workshop)

Social Inclusion: Gender and Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Issues
(summary of comments and suggestions from the workshop participants of Bank management on the revelance and implementation of the gender strategy, New Delhi, India)