The Bank Information Center (BIC) organized a series of advocacy meetings in Europe from March 10-18 around key priorities in the World Bank’s safeguards review, coordinating visits by a small delegation of civil society representatives that included Yoni Rivas from Honduras, Gonzalo Roza from Argentina, and Samuel Nnah from Cameroon. The civil society delegation attended …
The Bank Information Center (BIC), in collaboration with the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests (AMPB), held the Second International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards on March 15th and 16th in San Jose, Costa Rica, with broad participation by Mesoamerican indigenous and community leaders. The event was the second workshop held by BIC in …
The World Bank has launched the development of a new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Egypt that will constitute the framework for the Bank’s projects and lending priorities in Egypt for the period from 2015 to 2018. A group of Egyptian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) met with World Bank officials in Cairo in February, following …
Forbes Asia recently published an article, entitled “Doing Big Business in Modi’s Gujarat“, that exposes the political context and the influence of Big Business interests in the development of the Tata Mundra Coal Plant. The project has faced growing opposition by fishing companies over the national and World Bank policy violations, which were confirmed in …
Congratulations to Lloyd Gamble and World Wildlife Fund for being selected as the new Northern CSO Observer to the FCPF Readiness and Carbon Funds. Voting for the new observer closed on Friday, March 14th with two candidates – World Wildlife Fund and Carbonfund.org Foundation, Inc – up for the position. All duties associated with the …
The World Bank hosted a panel discussion on the “Economic Cost of Homophobia,” featuring a study that measures the economic impact of excluding LGBT communities in India. Dr. M.V. Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, presented the preliminary findings of the study. Here are a few figures from the presentation: More Info:
The Bank Information Center, in collaboration with the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests, will hold the “Second International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards in Indigenous Territories and Forest Communities of Mesoamerica” in San Jose, Costa Rica on March 15th and 16th. The main objective of the workshop is to facilitate discussions of regional safeguards principles …
The Bank Information Center, in collaboration with the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), recently published a case study on indigenous peoples’ participation in REDD+ preparation in Costa Rica. The study, “Facilitating Indigenous Involvement in REDD+: Early Engagement and Consultation in Costa Rica,” presents both original research …
The Mesoamerican Pre-Congress of Areas Protected by Indigenous Peoples, an initiative by the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests, will take place on March 17th and 18th in San Jose, Costa Rica. With the goal of assessing, valuing and projecting the contributions of indigenous peoples to conservation of protected areas in Mesoamerica, the Pre-Congress seeks …