International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2013, 2019)
Reporting Period: 2013
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Open Data
- Citizen Engagement
- Data Accessibility
Social Achievements
- Conducted offline pilots in Indonesia and Kenya to gauge demand for open financial data in offline communities, resulting in increased citizen engagement and feedback on development projects.
Governance Achievements
- Published all survey data in open format, making it accessible for replication of analysis and reuse in related research.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Difficulty in measuring open data usage due to its free and open nature.
- Digital divide and lack of internet access in many communities.
- Insufficient methods for measuring open data demand, particularly in offline environments.
- Complexity of financial data making it difficult for average citizens to understand.
Mitigation Strategies
- Used nano-surveys and traditional online surveys to measure demand for open financial data.
- Conducted offline pilots in Indonesia and Kenya to engage with communities directly.
- Developed community-generated content (posters, radio spots) to disseminate information and encourage engagement.
- Leveraged existing community groups and structures for engagement.
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Reporting Period: 2019
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Security
- Sustainable Peace
- Equity
- Social Cohesion
- Economic Opportunities
- Accountable Institutions
Social Achievements
- Engaging with more than 4,000 Iraqi citizens through an online survey to understand their needs and perspectives.
Governance Achievements
- Advocating for a bottom-up approach to reconstruction, focusing on local needs and assets.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Fluid, fractured, and informal nature of conflicts in MENA.
- Damage to social fabrics and economic networks.
- Fragmentation and incoherence of government systems and institutions.
- Flawed incentive structures.
- Inadvertent support of the illicit criminal economy.
- Elite capture of resources.
- Lack of information on actors' incentives, needs, and interests.
- Misaligned incentives of various actors.
- Limited governance capacities.
- Continued destruction of physical, human, and social capital.
- Inability of governments to collect taxes, enforce laws, and provide services.
- Questioned legitimacy of relations between communities and the central state.
- Absence or ineffectiveness of legal frameworks.
- Power asymmetries and exclusion of certain groups.
- Multiple levels of authorities.
Mitigation Strategies
- Multidimensional approach to reconstruction, managing fluidity, healing fractures, and addressing informality.
- Focus on the people most affected and vulnerable.
- Understanding the past, making sense of the present, and mapping for the future.
- Building on existing assets and coping structures.
- Identifying spoilers and enablers of sustainable peace.
- Developing a long-term vision for sustainable peace.
- Participatory and inclusive processes to build consensus among stakeholders.
- Pragmatic approach that allows for a more comprehensive understanding of opportunities and risks.
- Greater coordination among donors.
- Learning and adaptation in fluid situations.
- Integrating geopolitical interests into the process of identifying and implementing interventions.
- Bottom-up, localized, and integrated approaches.
- Combining top-down and bottom-up approaches.
- Integrating short-term interventions with a long-term vision.
- Addressing local needs and building on existing assets.
- Reaching displaced people where they are.
- Engaging young people and women in peacebuilding processes.
- Dialogue with nonstate actors.
- Leveraging partnerships, cooperation, and coordination among international actors.
- Using the convening power of multilateral development institutions.
- Mobilizing diaspora investment.
- Maintaining contact with different actors and conducting prospective analysis.