Photo: Mark Garten/UN (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Les nominations pour observateurs de la société civile a l’ONU-REDD et FCPF Le Bank Information Center est heureuse d’annoncer les listes de candidats pour les postes des observateurs de la société civile au Programme ONU-REDD et le Fonds de partenariat pour le carbone forestier. Les observateurs OSCs assistent aux …
When: Thursday, 18 September at 10.00 Where: Avenue Marnix 17, 1000 Brussels, Belgium 30 years ago activists in India’s Narmada Valley protested against a mega-dam project funded by the World Bank. The protections their protests helped secure at the Bank – the ‘Safeguard Policies’ – are now under threat. Despite promises not to dilute the strength 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.
This post is also available in: Spanish On July 3, 2014, twelve organizations representing civil society, indigenous peoples, and local communities of Central America and Mexico sent forest policy recommendations to Juan Jose Bravo Moises, the World Bank Executive Director who represents their countries. Their letter provides input into the three-phase World Bank safeguard policy …
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.
During negotiations with the World Bank in March, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP) made important strides towards launching Peru’s Dedicated Grant Mechanism, which will provide $5.5 million for indigenous land titling and community forest management in the Peruvian Amazon. Last year, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the …
In March 2010, Mexico presented its Readiness Plan Proposal (RPP) to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) governance body—the Participants Committee—receiving a favorable response and triggering authorization of its Readiness Preparation Grant. The federal government did not sign its grant agreement in the intervening four years, variously explaining that the source of the delay …
As part of its new corporate strategy, the World Bank is putting together a new strategy titled “Citizen Engagement” that aims to engage citizens throughout the development process and across Bank operations. However, the strategy is being designed in a way that contradicts the very principle it is aiming to promote: consultations have been planned …
The World Bank Group (“WBG” or “the Bank”) announced in 2014 that it is changing its Country Engagement approach, in line with the 2013 WBG Corporate Strategy that aims to streamline operations across the institution (public and private sector) and focus all operations moving forward on two goals of reducing absolute poverty and boosting shared …