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1 2017 Annual World Bank-IMF Meetings: Civil Society Policy Forum PTF Sponsored Session on Civil Society Roles in Engaging Citizens for Better Results in the World Bank Funded Projects Wednesday 11 th October 2017, 9-10:30 AM, I Building Second Floor More information is available on the 2017 Annual Meetings Civil Society Policy Forum website. Panelist Bios Barbara Kafka, Partnership for Transparency Barbara Kafka is a Senior Adviser at Partnership for Transparency. She served for over 33 years at the World Bank in a range of posts which involved her in the economic and social development of countries across Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and East and South Asia. Positions held include Director, South Asia; Country Director of three African countries; and Division Chief of energy, industry and financial sector programs in the Middle East. Barbara also was involved in World Bank corporate policy and strategy development and several Bank-wide corporate committees. Barbara is a member of the Board of Directors of New Futures East Meets West Foundation. Barbara holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University, and received an MBA, with a specialization in Finance and International Business, from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. In addition, she completed a Harvard/World Bank Executive Development Program and a certificate in non-profit management at Georgetown University. Vinay Bhargava, Partnership for Transparency Dr. Vinay Bhargava is the Chief Technical Adviser and a President’s Councillor at an international NGO – the Partnership for Transparency (www.ptfund.org). PTF is a volunteer’s organization and supports innovative civil society led initiatives to improve governance and development effectiveness. He has taught international development policy and practice courses at George Washington University, USA and at Kobe University, Japan. He is a former Country Director and former Director, International Affairs at the World Bank. He has worked as a development specialist in South Asia, East Asia, Western Africa, Eastern Europe and Middle East. His has delivered seminar and written articles on fighting corruption particularly through citizen and civil society led programs. His publications include books titled Global Issues for Global Citizens; Challenging Corruption in Asia; Many Faces of Corruption; Citizens Against Corruption; and Ending Asian Deprivations. He has served as consultant to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and U-4 Anti-corruption center. Virginia Ifeadiro, Initiative for Food Environment and Health Society Virginia Ifeadiro is Development professional with interest in Gender/vulnerable group, Voice and Accountability and poverty alleviation. She has extensive public and private sector experience with over 15 years of practice in International and national organizations. She has developed several programs aimed at empowering women, children and youths through skills and has worked with other CSOs to influence several policies e.g Nigeria Gender Policy, FOI bill, Child Trafficking bill etc.Expert in organizational development and passionate about thevulnerable. Virgy is a Vital Voices Fellow. Her mission is to empower women, children and youth for self-sustainability and influence policies that affect them. Virginia is the Founder/Team Leader for Initiative for Food Environment and Health Society. (IFEHS). A Nigerian based Non-Governmental organization that is committed to reducing extreme poverty in the lives of women children and youths through Voice, Transparency, Accountability and influencing policies that will create enabling environment to the implementation and achieving the targets of the SDGs at both states and local levels. Currently IFEHS won the contract as the Umbrella NGO to coordinate 22 NGOs across 22 states of the project to ensure Social Mobilization, Voice and Accountability in the World Bank assisted project; Nigeria Erosion and

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2017 Annual World Bank-IMF Meetings: Civil Society Policy Forum

PTF Sponsored Session on Civil Society Roles in Engaging Citizens for Better Results in the World Bank Funded Projects

Wednesday 11th October 2017, 9-10:30 AM, I Building Second Floor More information is available on the 2017 Annual Meetings Civil Society Policy Forum website.

Panelist Bios Barbara Kafka, Partnership for Transparency Barbara Kafka is a Senior Adviser at Partnership for Transparency. She served for over 33 years at the World Bank in a range of posts which involved her in the economic and social development of countries across Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and East and South Asia. Positions held include Director, South Asia; Country Director of three African countries; and Division Chief of energy, industry and financial sector programs in the Middle East. Barbara also was involved in World Bank corporate policy and strategy development and several Bank-wide corporate committees. Barbara is a member of the Board of Directors of New Futures East Meets West Foundation. Barbara holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University, and received an MBA, with a specialization in Finance and International Business, from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. In addition, she completed a Harvard/World Bank Executive Development Program and a certificate in non-profit management at Georgetown University. Vinay Bhargava, Partnership for Transparency Dr. Vinay Bhargava is the Chief Technical Adviser and a President’s Councillor at an international NGO – the Partnership for Transparency (www.ptfund.org). PTF is a volunteer’s organization and supports innovative civil society led initiatives to improve governance and development effectiveness. He has taught international development policy and practice courses at George Washington University, USA and at Kobe University, Japan. He is a former Country Director and former Director, International Affairs at the World Bank. He has worked as a development specialist in South Asia, East Asia, Western Africa, Eastern Europe and Middle East. His has delivered seminar and written articles on fighting corruption particularly through citizen and civil society led programs. His publications include books titled Global Issues for Global Citizens; Challenging Corruption in Asia; Many Faces of Corruption; Citizens Against Corruption; and Ending Asian Deprivations. He has served as consultant to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and U-4 Anti-corruption center. Virginia Ifeadiro, Initiative for Food Environment and Health Society Virginia Ifeadiro is Development professional with interest in Gender/vulnerable group, Voice and Accountability and poverty alleviation. She has extensive public and private sector experience with over 15 years of practice in International and national organizations. She has developed several programs aimed at empowering women, children and youths through skills and has worked with other CSOs to influence several policies e.g Nigeria Gender Policy, FOI bill, Child Trafficking bill etc.Expert in organizational development and passionate about thevulnerable. Virgy is a Vital Voices Fellow. Her mission is to empower women, children and youth for self-sustainability and influence policies that affect them.

Virginia is the Founder/Team Leader for Initiative for Food Environment and Health Society. (IFEHS). A Nigerian based Non-Governmental organization that is committed to reducing extreme poverty in the lives of women children and youths through Voice, Transparency, Accountability and influencing policies that will create enabling environment to the implementation and achieving the targets of the SDGs at both states and local levels.

Currently IFEHS won the contract as the Umbrella NGO to coordinate 22 NGOs across 22 states of the project to ensure Social Mobilization, Voice and Accountability in the World Bank assisted project; Nigeria Erosion and

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Watershed Management project, NEWMAP. The project has been under implementation for the past four years and still ongoing. Elena Bardasi, Independent Evaluation Group Elena Bardasi is a Senior Economist with a background in labor, poverty, and gender. She has been working at the World Bank since 2003 and in IEG since 2012, where she is currently leading the Citizen Engagement Evaluation. She was also the task-team leader of two major learning reports on the Impacts of Community Driven Development Interventions on Women’s Empowerment and Social Safety Nets and Gender, and of the thematic chapter on gender in the 2015 Results and Performance Report of the World Bank Group. As IEG thematic coordinator for gender, she has been instrumental in facilitating the integration of gender in project and thematic evaluations. She contributed to developing evaluation quality standards by coauthoring the IEG guidelines Integrating Gender into IEG Evaluation Work. Her evaluation work also includes a number of in-depth project evaluations.

Prior to her current position, Elena was part of the Gender Unit of the World Bank Poverty Reduction and Economic Management network. In that position, she has led the Unit’s work program on female employment and entrepreneurship and has contributed to numerous reports, including poverty assessments, investment climate assessments, and country economic memorandum. Before joining the World Bank she was Senior Economist at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex (UK), working on issues of labor market dynamics, poverty dynamics, poverty in old age, and family policies in OECD countries. Before that Elena worked at the Luxembourg Income Study, where she was responsible to collect, standardize, and document labor force survey data for inclusion in the database.

Elena has been writing and publishing on female entrepreneurship, female employment and gender issues in formal and informal labor markets, wage differentials, occupational segregation, and time use.

Elena earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute. Pansy Tun Thein, Local Resource Centre Pansy Tun Thein is currently serving as Executive Director of the Local Resource Centre (LRC) which is an umbrella network of over 1000 Civil Society Organizations. Pansy also serves as National Advisor of the Gender Equality Network (GEN) comprising over130 Civil Society Organizations, local and international NGOs and technical resource persons. Prior to joining LRC, she served as Research Documentalist with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, (ESCAP) from 1977 to 1999; Assistant Representative of the UNFPA Myanmar from 2000 to 2012.She holds a Masters Degree in Public Health, Walden University, USA; Graduate Diploma in Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; and Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Work, University of the Philippines. Nicolas Perrin, World Bank Nicolas Perrin works as Senior Social Development Specialist in the Africa region and coordinator of the Citizen Engagement Secretariat at the World Bank. He has joined the Bank in 2003 and worked across the globe on a large number of operations. His work has focused on citizen engagement, community driven development, local governance, cultural heritage and climate change. He is currently leading the activities of the Citizen Engagement secretariat which coordinates the implementation of the WB Citizen Engagement Framework, including capacity building, and monitoring of corporate CE indicators across the World Bank operations. Nicolas is also the Citizen Engagement Focal point for Africa providing guidance to Bank task teams on Citizen Engagement mainstreaming across their operational portfolio. Prior joining the World Bank, Nicolas has worked for the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Capital Development Fund and several international NGOs in South Asia, East Asia, Africa and Europe on microfinance, local governance and rural development.

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Amy Ekdawi, Bank Information Center Amy joined BIC in May 2007 as a Program Manager for the then new Middle East and North Africa Program. Before joining BIC she was Co-Director of People Advocacy. Amy is originally from Egypt where she started her carrier almost 25 years ago working with different rights- based Egyptian civil society groups. She is board member and founder of many US based organizations working on Egyptian issues. Amy has two Master degrees, one in International Policy and Practice with a focus on democratization processes in the Middle East from Elliott School for International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C., and another in French-Arabic Simultaneous Interpretation from Ain Shams University, Cairo. She also has an advanced Diploma in Social Development from St. Francis Xavier University, NS, Canada.