Ilonggo solon elected to executive board of int'l org
Garin
For the first time a Filipino was elected to the Executive Board of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank (PNoWB). First district Rep. Janette L. Garin is now one of the nine directors of the global action-oriented organization of parliamentarians advocating for transparency and accountability in international development.
PNOWB is an independent network of nearly P1,000 parliamentarians from 110 countries. It is tasked to monitor World Bank-International Monetary Fund (WB-IMF) funded projects all over the globe.
A first-termer congresswoman, Garin is lucky to have been elected to the board of the prestigious organization.
Among the functions of the board are: to help develop key relationships, ensure current programs are properly managed, and monitor the integrity of the financial statements of the PNoWB.
Although financed by the World Bank, PNoWB is autonomous from it and meant to comment freely on it, developing cooperation in general. It gathers a large number of parliamentarians from around the world, the aim being to facilitate and encourage a direct dialogue between them and multilateral development institutions, in order to promote greater transparency in policies and practices, in particular of the World Bank. It has the further aim of providing PNoWB members with a platform for coordinated parliamentary advocacy on international development issues.
Another purpose is 'networking', that is, to encourage concerted action, timely debate and exchange of information among parliamentarians on major issues of international development, finance and poverty eradication.
A further objective is to encourage partnerships among parliamentarians and policymakers, while also involving the academic community, the business sector and non-governmental organizations. There is also the endeavor to promote parliamentary mechanisms and practices to carry out democratic control of development assistance in all its aspects.