BIC Yemen 2013 - 2015 The goal of this program is to support sustainable civil society participation in World Bank operations in Yemen through facilitating effective and meaningful NGO  engagement in the development and implementation of the Banks Yemen Country Partnership Strategy (CPS). BIC will carry out the following interventions:
- Participation of Yemeni Partners in the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings: BIC will invite a core group of around 4 or 5 people from 2-5 Yemeni organizations that will be instrumental in this project and who want to work on an advocacy campaign on the World Bank throughout the CPS process.
- Information collection, analysis and dissemination: BIC will provide critical information(email, our Yemen facebook page, and periodic newsletters) both to the core group of partnersas BIC and to a broader group of civil society about what the Bank is doing and planning to do in Yemen with a focus on informationrelated to the Country Partnership Strategy and donor coordination.
- Workshops and meetings in Yemen:  BIC will make several visits to Yemen in order to finalize the action plan for the campaign; collect information about the Banks work in Yemen; conduct trainings for civil society groups on engaging the Bank, including advocacy strategies for the core group of civil society organizations, preparatory workshops for broader civil society groups that want to be engaged in the CPS consultations, and trainings for Parliamentarians and Yemen Parliamentarians Against Corruption staff. BIC will also facilitate meetings betBICen CSOs and the Bank, and hold press conferences around case studies/reports.
- Produce campaign materials: In coordination with the core group, BIC will work on developing case studies of Bank operations to highlight the gaps in the World Banks approach to the campaign issue and the key campaign asks. BIC will also write press releases and secure media pieces with the help of journalists.
- Regional meeting: BIC will hosta regional meeting of organizations BIC is working with to influence the CPSs in the MENA countries BIC is working in. This will likely take place in the first quarter of 2014, possibly in Egypt. The goal of this meeting will be to exchange updates and experiences working on campaigns to influence the strategies in the different countries and agree on key principles to propose to the World Bank for effective CPS consultations with civil society.
- Advocacy at multiple levels: In order to ensure that the Bank has a strong and meaningful CPS consultation process as well as that the issues our partners want to raise are included in the final CPS document, BIC will do advocacy at multiple levels, including the Yemen country office and the Washington, DC headquarters of the Bank. In Yemen, BIC will facilitate CSOs advocacy with the local Bank office, helping them frame their campaigns in ways that are palatable tothe Bank as BICll as encourage partners to meet with relevant Yemeni government officials and other donors to express their campaign asks. BIC plan to further build on the interest BIC have developed in the past few years and help CSOs work with journalists and Parliamentarians to vocalize and support their campaign asks.
Meanwhile in DC, and with the access which BIC have established over the past 25 years of working on the Bank, BIC will use the above noted case studies to provide evidence to high-level officials and other important Bank staff to echo the campaign asks at the highest decision-making level as well as with different key players outside the Bank who may wield influence with the Bank.