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ACTION 2015
The World Bank is Celebrating 5 Years of its corporate focus on Community Driven Development. Click here for more...
Meeting the global challenge of the Millennium Development Goals requires ACTION: Accountability, Cohesion, Transparency, Inclusion, and Opportunity – Now!
The commitment by the World Bank to the underlying principles of Social Development represents a platform that will contribute to sustainable poverty reduction. It is a call for ACTION based on the evidence that when there is hope for a better life, when citizens in poor and middle income countries are empowered to make their dreams a reality, development efforts are more sustainable and have better impacts.
ACTION 2015 represents an approach to development based on an intimate knowledge of local contexts, and an understanding of the perspectives and constraints of women, men, elders, youth, children, and vulnerable groups.
ACTION 2015 ensures that this key lesson, of promoting change as both social and economic change based on three decades of development experience, becomes an essential part of the World Bank’s approach to fighting poverty.
"Whether they live on the plains or in the valleys, whether they live in slums or isolated villages, whether they speak Hindi, Swahili, or Uzbek, people have one thing in common: They do not want charity. They want a chance. They do not want solutions imposed from without. They want the opportunity to build from within. They do not want my culture or yours. They want their own. They want a future enriched by the inheritance of their past." James D. Wolfensohn, President, The World Bank
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