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Social Development
Social development is fundamental to the World Bank's mission of poverty reduction because it asks essential questions about processes and institutions that must be in place for development interventions to work, because it focuses on building the critical asset of social capital, and because it provides approaches and tools for building strategies and programs that are credible and client owned.
The Social Development Group at the World Bank is concerned with three major challenges:
- Empowerment: giving poor people voice and choice
- Inclusion: making institutions more inclusive of poor people’s needs and aspirations and more effective in delivering services to them
- Security: enhancing social stability and human security
Social Development business lines at the World Bank include:
- Participation and Civic Engagement
- Social Analysis
- Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction
- Community-Driven Development, and
- Social Safeguards
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