The World Bank is set to undergo another round of institutional changes less than a year after transitioning into a new organizational model called “global practices.”
In an internal message to staff, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced he will reorganize the offices into three groups and appoint three senior staffers to lead them in order to “strengthen our operational delivery model and allow us to respond more quickly and efficiently to client demand.”
This change comes as World Bank staff are getting used to the new global practices structure — put in place in July 2014 and one of the changes resulting from a long and controversial reform process that began in 2013.
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Jeff is a former global development reporter for Devex. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers multilateral affairs, U.S. aid, and international development trends. He has worked with human rights organizations in both Senegal and the U.S., and prior to joining Devex worked as a production assistant at National Public Radio. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and French from the University of Rochester.
