In a meeting with Bank staff, Egyptian civil society and affected residents of North Giza farming communities raised concerns about a power project’s impacts on local livelihoods and the environment.
The World Bank has published a guidance note on how best to engage with local communities throughout a project cycle.
New papers show how the World Bank safeguards work with local laws. Though they are essential in order to preserve the well-being of people around the world, the way the safeguards fit in with local laws and pre-existing policies can be messy and complex. In order to help our allies to better understand how the safeguards …
An open letter from BIC and other NGOs requesting a meeting to discuss the challenges the next President will face. This letter is open indefinitely for signatures.
101 organizations and individuals endorse a letter to the World Bank President on disability and Safeguards.
A 5% cap will limit P4R Operations over a 2 year pilot period, but questions remain about how P4R expansion will be conditioned upon the results of management and IEG evaluations
The outgoing World Bank Country Manager for Brazil, Mahktar Diop, challenges the conclusions of an evaluation by Bank Information Center of the $1.3 billion Sustainable Environmental Management Development Policy to promote environmental reforms in Brazil.
This update prepared by the Bank Information Center introduces the FCPF Readiness Package (R-Package) and the Carbon Fund (CF) operational.
It took many years to establish the World Bank’s operational policies that safeguard society and the environment, and are some of the world’s highest development standards. As the Bank reviews these policies, civil society is organizing efforts to present their concerns and expectations, and offer their inputs as to what the outcome of the review should be.
Civil society groups from South Asia are planning to boycott the Asian Development Bank’s consultation meeting on its safeguards policy update, to be held in New Delhi, India tomorrow. The groups, from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh state that the ADB’s consultation draft, released in October 2007, greatly dilutes the Bank’s earlier policies on Environment (2002), Involuntary Resettlement (1995) and Indigenous Peoples (1998), and is opposed to indigenous peoples’ rights and subverts environmental considerations.