Yemeni Parliamentarians Against Corruption (YPAC) launched its new project funded by OXFAM Novib through which it will establish a parliamentary group to monitor grants and loans made to the Yemeni government by international financial institutions and other donors. A three day workshop to launch the project was held in Amman, Jordan from the 8th to …
This study provides some critical evidence on the risks of moving to greater use of frameworks and country or borrower systems without robust safeguards.
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 …
As citizens of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continue to fight for the gains they have accomplished through their uprisings, it remains clear that people in the region have found their voices and are demanding that they participate in the decisions that affect their lives. In response, and in order to remain …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 7, 2014 Civil society organizations (CSOs) from Egypt, Yemen, and Tunisia have submitted a document to their respective World Bank country offices with …
Press Statement December 6, 2013 ‘Stand by the truth and lead from the front’: Religious leaders tell World Bank President Calling World Bank President Jim Kim’s inaction on a scathing report on Tata Mundra power project a “disappointment”, religious leaders wrote to him an open letter (full text appended), urging him to take “bold …
Community Controlled Impact Assessment and Impact and Benefit Agreements: Relevance for upward harmonization of World Bank Group Safeguard Policies Dr. Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh, Professor of Politics and Public Policy in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia met with the World Bank during the week of November 18 to advocate for the inclusion …
On August 2, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) opened the first phase of public consultations on its Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (ICIM), aiming to revise and update the ICIM policy that has been in effect since September 2010. The ICIM (commonly known by its Spanish acronym, MICI) is an IDB policy that establishes an independent body …
Human Rights Watch released a 59-page report on Monday, concluding that the World Bank “has closed its eyes to the risk to the human rights of the very people it seeks to benefit. “The World Bank pays tens of billions of dollars every year to support development efforts around the world,” said Jessica Evans, senior advocate …
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 …