Jeremy Lefroy
Chair of the Parliamentary Network
on the World Bank & IMF
Honorable Per Stig Møller
Chairman, The Foreign Affairs
Committee – Denmark
Paris, 20 January 2015
The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & IMF (PN) field visit to Peru, 1-5 March 2015
Dear Mr. Chairman:
On behalf of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & IMF (PN), we would like to inform you
about the intended Parliamentary Field visit scheduled for Peru from 1-5 March 2015.
The PN, the IMF and the World Bank propose bringing a delegation of influential members of parliament
(MPs) from around the world to Peru for a four day field visit as part of the Network’s “Parliamentarians
in the Field” program. This program has taken over 150 MPs from both developed and developing
countries to countries where the IMF and the World Bank are active.
The aim of this upcoming visit would be to:
Enhance, through a personal visit to Peru, parliamentary understanding of the activities of the
IMF and the World Bank at the country level;
Review the participatory nature and outcome of Peru’s national development plan, and the role
of the Peruvian legislature therein;
Share experience among local and international parliamentarians about respective actions in
their countries;
Encourage dialogue among the MPs and between the delegation and IMF and World Bank staff,
Government and Parliamentarians from Peru, development partners, civil society and of course,
project beneficiaries.
There is a growing recognition of the important role that Parliamentarians can play in the development
agenda through a dialogue between international financial institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and the
communities they serve. In order to influence development policies and projects in their home
parliaments, it is very helpful if parliamentarians have the opportunity to assess the development efforts
and related results first hand.
The PN is a network of over 1000 parliamentarians in 140 countries to purposefully strengthen
accountability and transparency of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) by involving elected
representatives in their work.