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 …
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.
Photo: Alobos Life CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Several organizations of the Peruvian civil society expressed in a press release published in the Peruvian newspaper Peruvian La Republica, their rejection of a proposal led by the Ministry of Finance of “economic measures for the revival of the Peruvian economy” which was presented by the Executive to the Congress of …
On May 27, 2014 more than 20 civil society organizations sent a letter to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim expressing concerns about two proposed new World Bank agricultural sector loans to Uzbekistan, the South Karakalpakstan Water Resource Management Improvement Project and the Horticulture Development Project.
The World Bank Group (“WBG” or “the Bank”) announced in 2014 that it is changing its Country Engagement approach, in line with the 2013 WBG Corporate Strategy that aims to streamline operations across the institution (public and private sector) and focus all operations moving forward on two goals of reducing absolute poverty and boosting shared …
The pressure is mounting for the World Bank to adopt a climate safeguard The following map shows where Civil Society groups have spoken out for a climate change policy at the World Bank. Over 100 Civil Society Organizations representing more than 60 countries have been reaching out to the Executive Directors of the World Bank …
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 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 …
On December 24, 2013 the World Bank Inspection Panel published its eligibility report for the RESP-II agriculture project in Uzbekistan. The Panel stated that there were potentially valid concerns raised by the requesters about the link between the World Bank project and harm caused by widespread and systematic forced child and adult labor. The Panel …
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 …