Community Controlled Impact Assessment and Impact and Benefit Agreements: Relevance for upward harmonization of World Bank Group Safeguard Policies Presentation and Panel Discussion with Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh Professor of Politics and Public Policy in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffiths University, Australia Panel Moderator: Vince McElhinny, Sr. Policy Advisor, Bank Information Center Respondents: Meg Taylor, …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, 68 groups from 28 countries across six continents sent a letter to World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim condemning the World Bank Group’s continued support for a deadly coal project in Gujarat, India. This action comes on the heels of a letter from over 100 groups in India demanding that …
From October 29-November 1, the Bank Information Center, in cooperation with the International Commission of Jurists, hosted a unique delegation of eight adolescents and two child rights experts who traveled to Washington, DC from around the world. This visit was part of a broad civil society campaign on child rights and World Bank and consisted …
In the first round of consultations, children were asked to comment on the safeguard policies generally and project case studies.
IFC’s dismissive response to the CAO’s findings regarding the Tata Mundra plant was met with immediate and heavy backlash from NGOs, especially those surrounding the Gujarati power plant. The full press statement from Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan, along with the documents in question (IFC response, CAO audit), can be found here. Since that time, though, there …
Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan Mundra, Kutch, Gujarat, India The International Finance Corporation (IFC) broke its own social and environmental rules, says the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) which released an investigation report yesterday. A recourse mechanism for communities affected by private sector projects that the World Bank Group supports, CAO found that IFC committed serious violations of …
Representatives of civil society, indigenous communities, government and the press gathered in San Pedro Sula, Honduras from Sept. 23 to Sept. 25 for the “First International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards in Indigenous Territories and Forest Communities of Mesoamerica,” an initiative of the Bank Information Center, and for the Community Forestry Pre-Congress, organized by …
BIC, behind the efforts of Senior Policy Advisor Vince McElhinny, now has an informational brief on lending trends with the World Bank available. The document, replete with informational figures and facts, forecasts a further decline in safeguard coverage and points to signs of a return to to higher risk/reward lending. With these lending policies and …
Between August 14 and October 5 2013 the Bank Information Center held a series of seven children’s consultations in six countries on the World Bank safeguards. The countries in which consultations have been carried out include: Peru, Yemen, India, Cambodia and Uganda. The World Bank is currently reviewing its social and environmental policy standards, and is …
About two months after International Development Association (IDA) deputies met in Managua, Nicaragua, the World Bank published the summary of decisions and the general course of discussions. The Bank’s page on the event, including the chairperson’s summary can be found here. One of our partners, Bretton Woods Project, published a critique in response to the …