During the Safeguards Regional Consultations held in Lima (February), Buenos Aires (March) and Ciudad de Guatemala (April) several Latin American CSOs including indigenous organizations submitted a letter to their World Bank Executive Directors: Cesar Guido Forcieri, Executive Director for: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Roberto Tan, Executive Director for: Philippines, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Juan Jose Bravo Moises, Executive Director for: Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Spain, Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela with their position statement regarding the review process of the Bank’s policies.
A group of Egyptian civil society organizations have submitted their recommendations to the World Bank as input to Phase 1 of the Social and Environmental Safeguard policy review process. The document was endorsed by many of the same organizations that pushed the Bank to hold a civil society consultation in Cairo since such a meeting …
The Bank Information Center submitted a case study to the World Bank’s Safeguards review team regarding the need for Child Impact Assessments as demonstrated by the lack of due diligence around the Rural Enterprise Support Project-II loan to Uzbekistan.
Development of the FCPF Carbon Fund’s Methodological Framework and Pricing Approach (MFPA) is currently under way through a series of Design Fora, during which specific issues and expert-drafted issue papers are discussed by Carbon Fund donors and participants, civil society, and indigenous peoples representatives. Design Forum One, in January, focused on the Carbon Fund’s general approach and carbon accounting issues.
The second meeting of the FCPF Carbon Fund Working Group took place March 13-14, 2013 in Washington, DC. The purpose of the meeting was to validate the approach being taken by the FCPF Facility Management Team and Technical Advisory Panel towards designing the Carbon Fund Methodological Framework.
The Carbon Fund’s Methodological Framework and Pricing Approach (MFPA) is currently in development at the FCPF. The MFPA will provide guidance on how countries should address key issues in development of emissions reductions programs through the Carbon Fund- the $390 million performance-based payment fund of the FCPF.
In the consultations, which took place in Delhi, Bangalore, and Bhubaneshwar, civil society moved beyond the confines of Bank’s formal consultation meetings where assessments in earlier consultations have been mixed. In the protests against the consultations, Indian civil society has charged the World Bank with funding environmentally unsustainable projects while claiming the Bank has been complicit in numerous human rights abuses and environmental violations.
The Bank Information Center submitted a case study to the World Bank’s Safeguards review team regarding the negative impact of resettlement resulting from the International Development Association funded Bujagali hydropower project on affected children.
Affected community members and local civil society organizations have submitted the first complaint from Egypt about a World Bank-funded project to the Bank’s highest accountability body, the Inspection Panel
The World Bank has responded to a CSO letter calling on the World Bank to address the needs of children in safeguard policies