{"id":1594,"date":"2026-04-04T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:15:33","slug":"civil-society-policy-forum-spring-meetings-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"Civil Society Policy Forum: Spring Meetings 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Civil Society Policy Forum (CSPF) at the WBG-IMF Spring Meetings 2026 will be held in Washington, D.C., from 14\u201317 April, with hybrid participation options.<\/strong>&nbsp;The World Bank describes CSPF as a well-established platform convened twice a year during the Spring and Annual Meetings, enabling civil society to engage and exchange views with World Bank Group and IMF staff, government delegations and other stakeholders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event page notes the forum typically brings together&nbsp;<strong>over 1,000 CSO representatives<\/strong>&nbsp;from around the world for a week of dialogue in an open and collaborative space.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From 201 valid proposals to 27 selected sessions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the organizers, CSPF sessions are chosen from an open call for proposals by a CSO working group. For Spring Meetings 2026, the call ran from&nbsp;<strong>12 January to 16 February 2026<\/strong>. After screening for completeness, eligibility and duplicates,&nbsp;<strong>201 valid proposals<\/strong>&nbsp;were forwarded to a CSPF Working Group made up of civil society representatives from diverse regions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following independent assessments, ratings and multiple rounds of discussion, the Working Group selected&nbsp;<strong>27 sessions<\/strong>for the program\u2014<strong>18 hosted by the World Bank Group and 9 by the IMF<\/strong>. Organizers were notified on&nbsp;<strong>10 March<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hybrid participation and accreditation note<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event will take place in the same venue as the WBG-IMF Spring Meetings, with both in-person and virtual participation available. The page also clarifies that \u201cCSOs\u201d include NGOs, community groups, labor unions, Indigenous peoples\u2019 movements, faith-based organizations, professional associations, foundations, think tanks and other non-profits, while private sector, academia and government representatives must apply through other accreditation categories on the Spring Meetings website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Society Policy Forum (CSPF), held during the WBG-IMF Spring Meetings, will take place in Washington, D.C. on 14\u201317 April 2026 in a hybrid format. From 201 valid proposals submitted via an open call, a CSO working group selected 27 sessions (18 hosted by the World Bank Group and 9 by the IMF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[211,41,208,210,204,206,209,205,207],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-call-for-proposals","tag-civil-society","tag-cspf","tag-hybrid-event","tag-imf","tag-policy-dialogue","tag-spring-meetings","tag-washington-dc","tag-world-bank-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilsocietypost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}