How the World Bank Group Is Organized
for its respective institution and helps to ensure that all activities comport with the institution’s charter, policies, and rules. The focus includes legal and judicial reform in developing countries. Office of the President
This office provides support to the World Bank Group president and main tains information on the president’s speeches, interviews, and travels. Visit http://www.worldbank.org/president/ for more information. Staff Association
The World Bank Group Staff Association (SA) is a membersupported orga nization; more than half of all eligible Bank Group staff members are dues paying SA members. The SA is dedicated to fostering a sense of common purpose among staff members by promoting the aims and objectives of the World Bank Group and by promoting and safeguarding the rights, inter ests, and welfare of all staff members. The SA works with the HR depart ment, senior management, line management, and the World Bank Group’s Boards of Executive Directors, as well as with the staff itself, to fulfill these objectives. Among other activities, the SA maintains a direct line of communica tion with all levels of management, including the president of the World Bank Group; informs staff members of developments affecting them; urges management to keep the staff informed; provides support for staff members experiencing problems and difficulties on the job; and appoints staff repre sentatives to any joint executive, advisory, or consultative group formed by management to work on issues of common concern. World Bank Institute
The World Bank Institute (WBI) is the capacity development arm of the World Bank. WBI attempts to transform the way development practitioners operate by equipping them not only with technical skills but also with very practical knowledge on how to make change happen on the ground. By con necting development practitioners with peers in other countries who have successfully addressed similar challenges and by complementing the trans fer of technical knowledge with expertise on leadership, coalition build ing, and innovation, WBI strives to empower its partners in and outside government and to become effective change agents. WBI works in close
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