Photo: Mark Garten/UN (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) En español | En français Nominations for UNREDD and FCPF Civil Society Observers The Bank Information Center is pleased to announce the nomination lists for the Civil Society Observer positions at the UNREDD Programme and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. Civil Society Observers attend the meetings of the UNREDD …
Photo: Mark Garten/UN (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Les nominations pour observateurs de la société civile a l’ONU-REDD et FCPF Le Bank Information Center est heureuse d’annoncer les listes de candidats pour les postes des observateurs de la société civile au Programme ONU-REDD et le Fonds de partenariat pour le carbone forestier. Les observateurs OSCs assistent aux …
When: Thursday, 18 September at 10.00 Where: Avenue Marnix 17, 1000 Brussels, Belgium 30 years ago activists in India’s Narmada Valley protested against a mega-dam project funded by the World Bank. The protections their protests helped secure at the Bank – the ‘Safeguard Policies’ – are now under threat. Despite promises not to dilute the strength of …
ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow has urged World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to ensure that the institution he leads adopts a labor standard lending requirement that is as comprehensive as those adopted by other multilateral development banks, and to correct the major weaknesses in the draft “labor safeguard” that was recently issued for consultation.
This study provides some critical evidence on the risks of moving to greater use of frameworks and country or borrower systems without robust safeguards.
by Vince McElhinny, Senior Policy Advisor at the Bank Information Center The World Bank management claims that the proposed revision to its safeguard policies, now called Environmental and Social Standards and Policy (ESS/ESP) will “update, strengthen and broaden” the protections to people from risks associated with Bank investments. However, by excluding two of the Bank’s …