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rt prepared by an independent consultant for Region 1 in November 2020, EXR will seek to provide training for the Bank’s Country Offices in matters that plement Information Disclosure policy, as well, including attempts to use the Public Information Center “function” in those offices as a tool in the work being carried out by the Civil Society liaisons designated in each of the Country Offices, and where they exist, the Civil Society Advisory Councils. VI. Followup Mechanisms and Timing The instructions to staff referred to in Section Ⅴ above will specify that digital files containing the full, final texts of documents specifically listed as available to the public under the proposed new Policy must be delivered to the PIC within five (5) working days of the approval of the corresponding document by the relevant Bank unit, Bank Management Committee or the Board of Executive Directors. In cases where the relevant Committee or the Board has approved a document contingent upon the introduction of changes to the text, the author of the document shall inform the PIC in writing if the document will not be available within five (5) working days after the meeting of the Committee or the Board, and to provide the final text within twenty (20) working days of the Committee or Board decision, unless an exception is granted in writing by the PIC. Ⅶ . Specific products and initiatives In several instances, the proposed new policy provides for automatic release of classes of information that have either been considered heretofore as confidential by definition, or which have not been produced and disclosed in any regular format. Accordingly, in anticipation of the entry into effect of the new policy, the Office of External Relations has begun planning for a series of new procedures (and in one case, improvements to procedures currently in effect) to facilitate timely release of these products. Ⅷ Reporting and Evaluation As provided of the Presentation of the proposed new Policy, Management will be required to report to the Board on “experience under the Policy on an annual basis.” In preparing the first such annual report to the Board, EXR will draw on the consultations referred to above and with impressions gathered from the staff of the Regional Operations Departments, particularly the Country Offices, as well as PRI staff and others. The report will contain a discussion of the frequency with which information requested by the public has not been disclosed and a description of the re