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It reviews how the IPN toolkit relates to the 2016 Environmental and Social Framework, which emphasizes transparency, inclusion, public participation, and grievance redress. It summarizes a 2017 external review and subsequent Executive Director decisions, including advisory recognition, trust fund clarifications, co-financier coordination, investigation report sharing, and strengthened MAP supervision and feedback.","Public Disc losure Authorized  \nPub lic Disc losure Authorized  \nREPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE INSPECTION PANEL’S TOOLKIT REVIEW  \nMarch 5, 2020  \nREVIEW OF THE INSPECTION PANEL’S TOOLKIT  \nIntroduction  \n1. The World Bank Inspection Panel (IPN) is an independent accountability mechanism providing an avenue for people and communities who believe that they have been, or are likelytobe, adversely affected by a World Bank funded project. The Board of Executive Directors created the IPN in 1993 to ensure that these people have access to an independent body to express their concerns and seek recourse. For over 25 years, the IPN has been instrumental in ensuring accountability and improving compliance with World Bank policies and procedures.  \n2. In August 2016, the Board of Executive Directors approved a new Environmental and Social Framework (ESF), which makes important advances in areas such as transparency, nondiscrimination, social inclusion, public participation, and accountability–including the requirement for every Bank funded project to have functioning grievance redress mechanisms. The new ESF, which became operational in October 2018 helps Borrowers manage project risk and impacts, as well as improve environmental and social performance.  \n3. In light of these developments and appreciative of the IPN’s role, the Board of Executive Directors commissioned in August 2017 an External Review of the IPN toolkit (“the Review”)1 to examine whether it required any updates in seven areas to continue to operate effectively under the new ESF. The Review did not make recommendations but provided options in seven areas: (i) advisory services, (ii) Bank Executed Trust Funds (BETFs), (iii) co-financing, (iv) sharing findings with Requesters, (v) problem solving/dispute resolution,(vi) time limit on eligibility for requests and (vii) monitoring of Management Action Plans (MAPs) .  \n4. In July 2018, a Working Group of the Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE) that included members from all Executive Directors’ offices, was established to consider the areas identified by the Review in more detail. The Working Group met on numerous occasions to discuss the lessons and experiences ofthe IPN and to develop proposals for enhancing its effectiveness and value to the World Bank. The Working Group completed its work in October 2018 and prepared a set of options for CODE’s consideration.  \n5. On October 31, 2018, Executive Directors approved measures to (i) formally recognize the IPN’s advisory role in its mandate; (ii) issue clarifications on the use of Bank-Executed Trust Funds (BEFTs); (iii) formalize the IPN’s current practice to coordinate with the accountability mechanism of co-financier(s) to process the complaints in the most efficient and effective way possible; and  \n(iv) update the procedures for sharing the IPN’s Investigation Report with Requesters ahead of Board consideration. Executive Directors also took note of Management’s strengthening of the Bank’s Grievance Redress Service (GRS), including maintaining a roster of expert mediators to facilitate resolution of complaints and to add an escalation point, including to the World Bank’s most Senior Manager responsible for operations.  \n6. Executive Directors took note of Management’s proposals to strengthen the World Bank’s existing process for supervising MAPs, including discussing MAP progress reports with the Board on a regular basis; sharing MAP progress reports with Requesters, soliciting feedback through  \n1 The Review has been published and can be found at: [http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/562131583764988998/External-Review-of-the-Inspection-Panel-s-Toolkit](http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/562131583764988998/External-Review-of-the-Inspection-Panel-s-Toolkit)  \nfollow-up consultations on their implementation status; and reflecting such feedback in the MAP progress reports to the Board. 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