As the World Bank prepares to gut its safeguard policies and budget cuts are suspended over the heads of an anxious staff, a leaked assessment of the Bank’s safeguard system by the Bank’s internal audit department (IAD) describes an alarming state of disarray.
Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) (July 31, 2014) Over widespread objections from civil society, the World Bank’s board of directors gave a green light yesterday to a weak new set of rules to replace its existing environmental and social “safeguard” policies. The proposed policies appear to reverse a generation of …
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 …
A leaked draft of the World Bank’s proposed new Safeguard Policies appears to reverse a generation of gains.
A group of Egyptian civil society participants in the World Bank’s first round of consultations on its development of a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Egypt have released a statement with their observations and recommendations on the consultative process thus far. Since the Bank launched its process of developing the first full-fledged country strategy …
World Bank headquarters. Photo:© Deborah Campos/World Bank CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A new analysis of trends at the World Bank by Ford Foundation Natural Resources and Sustainable Development Program Analyst Kevin Currey provides data and context for the growing shares of Bank lending going to development policy loans and the private sector, even as overall lending …
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.
A Kosovo police officer inspects the damage caused by an explosion that rocked Kosovo’s main power plant, in Obilic, Kosovo, Friday, June 6, 2014 Photo: AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu via Climate Progress On Friday, Kosovo’s oldest lignite-based power plant exploded, killing two and injuring 13 people. The accident is the latest to occur in this country’s …
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.