Civil Society Registration &

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Feedback Survey Results

2019 Spring Meetings Civil Society Policy Forum

 2019 SPRING MEETINGS
CSO PARTICIPATION IN NUMBERS

1942 APPLICANTS 46 SESSIONS

109 COUNTRIES
1835 REGISTERED REPRESENTED

1072 ARRIVED 10 INNOVATION

FAIR BOOTHS

19 SM CSPF HIGHLIGHTS
REGIONAL CSO MAIN THEMES:
LARGEST CSO NETWORKING DEBT & ECONOMY
ATTENDANCE SPACE ACCOUNTABILITY
CLIMATE/ENERGY
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 YEAR-T0-YEAR TREND

-1% + 7% +6% + 24% + 2%

1961 1942
1835
1719
109
1072 46
1010 45
88

RECEIVED APPROVED ARRIVED COUNTRIES NUMBER OF

APPLICATIONS & REGISTERED & PICKED REPRESENTED SESSIONS
BADGES

2018 Spring Meetings 2019 Spring Meetings

CSPF CSPF
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 5 YEAR SPRING & ANNUAL MEETINGS
CSO REGISTRATION TREND
2000 1835
1719

1590
PERU BALI
1481

1276

1092 1084 1072

1043
1004 1003 1010

1000 852
807
686 683
636 620
584 590
530 545

0
SM'14 AM'14 SM'15 AM'15 SM'16 AM'16 SM'17 AM'17 SM'18 AM'18 SM'19

Approved & Registered Arrived

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 2019 SM ARRIVED CSOs
TOP 5 CSO DELEGATIONS BREAKDOWN BY REGION
718

Oxfam 22

Gates Foundation 20

14
Bank Information Center 18 17
19
22

World Resources Institute 16 48

84
Mercy Corps 15
150

US & Canada (66.98%) Western Europe (13.99%) Africa (7.84%)

Latin America & Caribbean (4.48%) East Asia & Pacific (2.05%) South Asia (1.77%)
Eastern Europe & Central Asia (1.59%) Middle East & North Africa (1.31%)

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 CSPF PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK
SURVEY RESULTS
n= 201 (19% of arrived CSOs)

147

Q1:
What type of
organization do 16 12
you represent? 9 6 5 3 2 1
n= 201
NGO Other Think Foundation FBO Professional Youth CBO Trade/Labor
Tank Assoc. Group Union

116

Q2:
Location of your
organization 31 27
8 7
n= 201 4 4 3

North Africa Western South Mid. East Easter Europe Latin East Asia
America Europe Asia North Africa Central Asia America Pacific

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 60% To network and share information with other CSOs
Q3: 48% To advocate policies with WBG/IMF staff and EDs
Top reasons for
attending 36% Professional development - to learn about WBG/IMF
n= 198 24% To organize a CSPF session

69% Very satisfied

Q4:
Satisfaction with 26% Somewhat satisfied
the registration 2% Somewhat unsatisfied
process 3% Very unsatisfied
n= 198
1% Don't know/other

62% Tuesday, April 9

Q5:
Most attended 71% Wednesday, April 10
days of the CSPF 77% Thursday, April 11
n= 184 53% Friday, April 12

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Q7: Rate your satisfaction with the following aspects of the CSPF: n= 184
58% Very satisfied
Relevance of 36% Somewhat satisfied
session topics 3% Somewhat unsatisfied
1% Very unsatisfied

58% Very satisfied

Quality of 36% Somewhat satisfied
speakers or 4% Somewhat unsatisfied
panelists 0.1% Very unsatisfied

51% Very satisfied

Lenght of 40% Somewhat satisfied
sessions 7% Somewhat unsatisfied
0.1% Very unsatisfied

50% Very satisfied

WBG/IMF staff 35% Somewhat satisfied
participation 12% Somewhat unsatisfied
on panels 3% Very unsatisfied

26%
Very satisfied
Somewhat satisfied
New regional 37%
Somewhat unsatisfied
CSO networking 12%
3% Very unsatisfied
space 22% Don't know

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 Q7: To what extent were the following sessions useful to you: n= 184

58%
56%
53%
51%

46%
43%

39%
38% 38%

23%
22% 22%
20% 20%
18% 18%
17% 17%
16%
13%
12%
11%
10%
9%
6% 6%
5%
4%
2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2%
1%

WBG Orientation EDs Roundtable EDs Roundtable CSO Innovation Fair CSO-led Sessions WBG or IMF-led Lunch Session with
Moderator Prep Sessions CSPF Working Group
Session

To a very To a somewhat To a somewhat To a very

high degree Did not attend
high degree low degree low degree

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Q8: Rate your satisfaction with the following aspects of the EDs Roundtable n= 158

30% Very satisfied

34% Somewhat satisfied
Choice of 7% Somewhat unsatisfied
topics 1% Very unsatisfied
28% Don't know

31% Very satisfied

35% Somewhat satisfied
Number of 7% Somewhat unsatisfied
topics 1% Very unsatisfied
28% Don't know

24% Very satisfied

38% Somewhat satisfied
Format and 6% Somewhat unsatisfied
structure 1% Very unsatisfied
30% Don't know

26% Very satisfied

31% Somewhat satisfied
CSO Moderator: 14% Somewhat unsatisfied
Amanda 1% Very unsatisfied
Mukwashi 28% Don't know

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Q9: Please share any ideas to improve future Roundtables with WBG Executive Directors
Time
Time is key. I know you did a good job, but we need more
time!
Please extend the duration of meeting and let the people ask
questions in a conversation manner
We need more time with the WB directors
Topics
Amanda did an AMAZING job moderating and for identifying
the governance issue
We need more time to take on thematic macro economic
issues
More focus on health and health budget impact
Make the outcome of the discussions public and keep the
dialogue going
It would have been interesting to know the outcomes of the
previous year’s session
n= 60
Format
We need a bigger space that will allow all the CSOs to attend
The meeting room preparation for two sessions I spoke at were
fantastic
Want to affirm that the lunchtime "prep" and discussion with
the CSO Moderator was extremely helpful and contributed to
the overall success of the Roundtable
It would be helpful to allow those CSO representatives from a
particular country to meet the Executive Directors from their
own country
Online Round-tables to reach more people
Announcement of the chair could be done earlier so that those
not able to make it could send questions earlier
I would like to see more on the use of technology/data in this
space
EDs representation
I think that very few Executive Directors were present.
The conversation is largely dominated by a few EDs from the
Global North
Need an agenda that will engage the EDs as only a few
actually participated and also could not identify which country
they represented
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Q10: Please share any other ideas to improve the CSPF: n= 76

Format CSPF Working Group

I can't say enough how wonderful it was to have Ms. Georgieva
The involvement of civil society organisations in setting the
participate in Tuesday's opening
agendas could be further improved by involving the CSPF
Include clear and transparent criteria for CSPF panels that are
working group more closely in making the programme
accessible at the time of submission
Establish a stronger and active CSPF Working Group with its 11
Identify new issues and innovative approaches not the usual
members
crowd working on the same things as in the last century
Time allotted to sessions could use 30 more minutes
There should be more programs on technology, civic
technology, technology-inclusion, open source movement WBG/ IMF Participation
The session rooms in the WB building were not great
More food/drinks; bigger space More participation of WB/IMF staff members in the CSO
There should be more information available about the sessions
attending civil society organisations and also the government The level of interaction and engagement from the World Bank
delegations of the respective countries and IMF was impressive
More preparation via email

Networking Inclusion
It is important that people from other countries can join if they
Encourage NGOs to make use of the space for regional
have critical demands and are not denied Visas
networking
CSOs need to have a broader, more inclusionary role with WB
More networking session with WB/IMF staff and with regional
and IMF in their decision making process
CSOs
Please give voice to those of us who have innovative and
A post-Spring Meetings platform could be also an effective tool
evidence-based solutions to prevent violent extremism in
to keep people connected
fragile states
The registration process makes it extremely difficult to include
Global South voices
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