A Message to the President and the Board of Executive Directors

As members of the drafting and implementation team for the World Bank Group’s Governance and Anticorruption (GAC) strategy, both from Washington and country offices, and of the Public Sector Governance Board, we represent a large group of Bank staff, who have been working on the governance agenda for well over a decade. We are strongly committed to advancing this work through the implementation of the GAC strategy, after the unanimous endorsement of the GAC by the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, following an unprecedented consultation with thousands of stakeholders in 47 countries. The GAC carries forward many years of effort within and outside the Bank, recognizing the critical impact of good governance and anticorruption in poverty reduction. We believe that the GAC is an essential part of the Bank’s overall mission to reduce poverty.