BIC’s MENA program has prepared an updated list of the projects that the World Bank is currently funding or preparing to fund in Egypt. The list provides a brief description of each project, in addition to an explanatory diagram that summarizes the World Bank’s project cycles.
In a General Comment on State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights adopted on February 6, 2013 the Committee on the Rights of the Child called on States Parties to ensure that their participation in International Financial Institutions is consistent with obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Committee recommended that:
From January 28 to February 1, 2013, BIC and DAR, a Peruvian nonprofit, co-organized a Training Seminar on the Implementation of Social and Environmental Safeguards held in Washington, DC. Fourteen colleagues from eight countries in Central and South America (Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama) participated in the seminar. The seminar was designed as a three-day …