Celebrating World Day (May 21) for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

HRDLS Intercultural Program

Intercultural Effectiveness is the key to enhancing client engagement of different national/cultural background and maximizing effectiveness in our global cause of dialogue and development. This is even more critical in a COVID environment where we rely mainly on remote communications or limited face-to-face interactions. To this end, the Intercultural Program is launching an Intercultural Week and host a series of webinars starting from May 17^th, to celebrate May 21, the World Day for the Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, and to help enhance intercultural effectiveness, virtual collaboration and business results.

The key objectives are to:

• celebrate cultural diversity and inclusion as part of the WBG tradition and help transform how we work, communicate and lead, to maximize that value of cultural diversity and our business impact for dialogue and development
• strengthen awareness of how cultural implicit biases and behavioral differences can cloud our best judgement in decision-making and engaging our clients, disrupt our relationship, trust, and effectiveness in delivering our development agenda  
• explore tools and potential practices to help better emphasize with colleagues, clients and stakeholders, and enhance our conversations of end-racism, inclusion, engagement, respect and virtual collaboration in the pandemic-hit context across national borders, cultures, races, and different socio-economic groups