Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) (July 31, 2014) Over widespread objections from civil society, the World Bank’s board of directors gave a green light yesterday to a weak new set of rules to replace its existing environmental and social “safeguard” policies. The proposed policies appear to reverse a generation of …
The Ford Foundation recently investigated the link between forest rights and climate change in Latin America. According to a recent report, stopping deforestation and reforesting could reduce greenhouse gas emissons by 30 percent. Giving forest rights back to the traditional communities, who depend on these forests for their livelihood, would decrease deforesting and thereby reduce greenhouse …
On July 27, 2014, ahead of the scheduled World Bank Board meeting to discuss the Bank’s newly proposed draft Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework, Egyptian civil society organizations sent an urgent letter to their representative on the Board of Directors, Dr. Merza Hasan, urging him to recommend that some critical changes be made to the draft. The letter …
Este artículo también está disponible en: Ingles El 3 de julio de 2014, doce organizaciones que representan la sociedad civil, los pueblos indígenas y las comunidades locales de Centroamérica y México mandaron recomendaciones para las políticas forestales al Juan Jose Bravo Moisés, el Director Ejecutivo del Banco Mundial quien representa sus países. La carta proporciona …
A leaked draft of the World Bank’s proposed new Safeguard Policies appears to reverse a generation of gains.
Also available in Spanish As REDD+ preparation in Mexico proceeds at a rapid pace, civil society, local communities, and indigenous peoples have voiced concerns regarding impacts on communities and community rights. However, if the government of Mexico facilitates a transparent, participatory process of REDD+ strategy development and implementation, REDD+ is a potential opportunity to promote …
This post is also available in: Spanish On July 3, 2014, twelve organizations representing civil society, indigenous peoples, and local communities of Central America and Mexico sent forest policy recommendations to Juan Jose Bravo Moises, the World Bank Executive Director who represents their countries. Their letter provides input into the three-phase World Bank safeguard policy …
A group of Egyptian civil society participants in the World Bank’s first round of consultations on its development of a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Egypt have released a statement with their observations and recommendations on the consultative process thus far. Since the Bank launched its process of developing the first full-fledged country strategy …
World Bank headquarters. Photo:© Deborah Campos/World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A new analysis of trends at the World Bank by Ford Foundation Natural Resources and Sustainable Development Program Analyst Kevin Currey provides data and context for the growing shares of Bank lending going to development policy loans and the private sector, even as overall lending …
The subject of this case study is the World Bank’s failure to properly assess risks to children associated with the IDA-funded Second National Water Development Project (SNWDP) in Malawi.