On December 5, 2015, a group of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from different countries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) submitted a joint letter to World Bank Group officials (WBG or Bank) regarding the Bank’s MENA regional program implementation of its translation framework. Having the signing support of twenty-five CSOs from Yemen, Iraq, …
At the 2016 World Bank Spring Meetings, the Office of the Executive Director – EDS 05 won the “Open for Business” award for the most transparent website among the 25 World Bank Executive Directors’ offices. Ursula Müller, Executive Director from the Germany, received the award during the CSO Roundtable with World Bank Executive Directors on …
On Friday, April 15th the Coalition for Human Rights in Development (global coalition of social movements, civil society organizations, and grassroots groups working to ensure that all development finance institutions respect human rights) held a protest outside the World Bank headquarters. Activists highlighted the World Bank’s failure to produce a strong, mandatory set of safeguard …
Image Source: Rightsobserver.org As the World Bank Group (WBG or the Bank) is currently reviewing its safeguards policies, several Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) began calling for the integration of human rights principles in the new policies, seeing human rights as an important aspect of development policies and countries programing. But integrating human rights principles (HRPs) …
Conservation International & BIC hosted a panel event at the Civil Society Policy Forum of the World Bank 2016 Spring Meetings on the Bank’s role in supporting forest commitments coming out of COP21. The panel includes Bank staff working on forests and climate change; CSO partners from FPP, WRI, CI, and Honduran indigenous organization MASTA; …
Members of the Bigodi community in Uganda tell the story of what happened in their village as a result of the construction of a road. The road was part of the World Bank-funded Uganda Transport Sector Development Project, which was canceled in December 2015. They discuss the negative social impacts of the project on their …
International activists discussed research gaps, safeguards, and new advisory position at the World Bank On April 11th, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim met with activists from 17 countries to discuss how LGBTI individuals can fully benefit from World Bank projects and programs in light of the powerful discrimination they experience in their countries. The …
This week, BIC is working with civil society partners from around the world to discuss the most pressing social and environmental issues in development finance. These panel events and roundtable discussions are taking place during the World Bank Spring Meetings Civil Society Policy Forum. If you’re in DC for the Spring Meetings, join us in …
Together with New Rules for Global Finance, BIC has developed a guidebook for engaging the International Monetary Fund in order to provide essential information about the IMF to civil society groups and other interested stakeholders in Myanmar.
Iraqi Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are actively trying to hold their central and provincial institutions accountable. Like their local counterparts who continue to plan public protests against government corruption, some local CSOs are focusing more of their civic efforts on the development work of the World Bank (WBG or Bank) in Iraq. Five local CSOs from …