January 11, 2017 The World Bank is in the process of drafting a new Country Partnership Framework to guide its work in Peru for the next four to six years. This framework is slated to be finalized by April 2017, and is meant to include feedback and comments from stakeholders. However, no draft of this …
Ce message est également disponible en: arabe Ce message est également disponible en: anglais Compte tenu de la transition politique en Tunisie, le Groupe de la Banque mondiale (GBM) est en train d’élaborer un nouveau cadre de partenariat pays (CPP) pour la période de subvention allant de 2016 à 2020. Ce CPP non seulement guidera les opérations …
PRESS RELEASE (October 5, 2015) The World Bank, with an overarching mission to end poverty, hosts its Annual Meetings this week in Peru. Given that the impacts of climate change disproportionately harm the poor, and that world leaders are set to make a global agreement on climate change this December, climate is at the top …
BIC recently published two reports analyzing the impact of World Bank and IFC finance on forests and forest peoples around the world. These publications outline the findings of BIC’s review of World Bank Group public and private sector lending from the perspective of investments both within the forest sector, and in the primary sectors that …
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 …
On November 13, 2013, nine civil society organizations from Mongolia, Europe, US and Australia submitted their initial review of the Oyu Tolgoi (OT) project’s Operational Management Plans (OMPs) to the World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors in anticipation of the Board’s November 19th technical briefing. The Oyu Tolgoi copper/gold mine in the South Gobi …
Soumya Dutta outside the World Bank headquarters, August 2013 BIC highlights the work of Soumya Dutta in the campaign against Tata Mundra. Soumya Dutta is the National Convener of the Indian people’s science group Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha and the Convener of the Climate and Energy Group in the Beyond Copenhagen collective in India, a network …
The Board of Directors of both the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank Group (WBG) have approved funding for the Oyu Tolgoi (OT) copper/gold mine in Khanbogd, Mongolia last week, despite local and global resistance to the project.
The Bank Information Center has just released a new study on the Kosovo water system. The study reflects concerns on the World Bank’s support for the proposed Kosovo Power Project (NKPP).
The IFC responds to a December 14 article that questions why the Bank is considering financing a huge Oyu Tolgoi mining project that includes a 750 megawatt plant despite a report that criticizes the flawed project impact assessment, water and climate concerns.