BIC Forest Associate Rachel Baker co-wrote the following article with Beatriz Zavariz and Paulina Deschamps, originally posted on the Bretton Woods Project website. Beatriz Zavariz and Paulina Deschamps, Mexico, and Rachel Baker, Bank Information Center
Society and Disability and the Peruvian Down Syndrome Society, civil society organizations in Peru advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities, have produced a video on the impact of the World Bank funded Lima Urban Transport Project (Metropolitano) and the Mainstreaming Inclusive Design and Universal Mobility in Lima Project on persons with disabilities. The …
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 …
Like previous safeguard consultations, Lima was draped in a sense of secrecy with a total lack of transparency from the get go. The response of civil society groups in Lima to the draft safeguard policies presented by the Bank was very straight-forward, outright rejection.
A new case study on the development of a national safeguard system for REDD+ in Mexico was just published by Bank of Information Center (BIC), the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA).
The Ford Foundation recently investigated the link between forest rights and climate change in Latin America. According to a recent report, stopping deforestation and reforesting could reduce greenhouse gas emissons by 30 percent. Giving forest rights back to the traditional communities, who depend on these forests for their livelihood, would decrease deforesting and thereby reduce greenhouse …
Also available in Spanish As REDD+ preparation in Mexico proceeds at a rapid pace, civil society, local communities, and indigenous peoples have voiced concerns regarding impacts on communities and community rights. However, if the government of Mexico facilitates a transparent, participatory process of REDD+ strategy development and implementation, REDD+ is a potential opportunity to promote …
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 …
Photo: Alobos Life CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Several organizations of the Peruvian civil society expressed in a press release published in the Peruvian newspaper Peruvian La Republica, their rejection of a proposal led by the Ministry of Finance of “economic measures for the revival of the Peruvian economy” which was presented by the Executive to the Congress of …
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 …