The World Bank has completed the highly anticipated “re-mapping” of its portfolio and staff into the new technical areas — 14 “global practices” and five “cross-cutting solution areas” as part of President Jim Kim’s ambitious reform efforts.
Staff were informed about the re-mapping update earlier this week in a memo. The new organizational structure, set to come into effect at the start of the bank’s fiscal year on July 1, has consumed a considerable amount of energy within the Washington, D.C.-based international financial institution and created uncertainty among employees over the past year.
The staff update, seen by Devex, suggests that all of the 5,700 employees within the World Bank Group who were assigned a global practice or cross-cutting solutions area had “validated their proposed mapping to the new structure” and that all “all portfolios, programs and trust funds have been mapped to the new structure.” This includes the International Finance Corp. and employs more than 10,000 people around the globe.