The National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU), an indigenous umbrella organization of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Uganda working to promote the equalisation of opportunities and active participation of PWDs in mainstream development processes, has produced a video on the impact of the World Bank funded National Agriculture Advisory Services (NAADS) in Uganda …
Conserving forests is essential to achieving the World Bank’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. A high percentage of the world’s impoverished people source food, medicine, building materials and fuel-wood directly from forests, and depend on the forest ecosystem services of water provision and purification, flood prevention, and climate change adaptation …
The Disability and World Bank Safeguards Campaign, together with its Peruvian focal point organizations Society and Disability and the Peruvian Down Syndrome Society, participated in the World Bank Annual Meetings in Lima, Peru October 6-9, 2015. The Campaign was joined by Catalina Devandas, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to advocate for …
Picture of KEMAL JUFRI / Photo credit FERN AND ICIJ In the latest installment of “Evicted and Abandoned”, a year-long investigation into the ‘hidden toll of development’ financed by the World Bank, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, in collaboration with The Food & Environment Reporting Network, tells the story of Revan Pragustiawan, a little …
BIC contributed to the research leading to a report published with FoodFirst and the Transnational Institute on The World Bank Group’s 2013-2015 Agriculture for Action Plan: A Lesson in Privatization, Lack of Oversight and Tired Development Paradigms. The full report can be found here, or read the executive summary below: Released in January 2013, the World …
At the 2015 World Bank Annual Meetings, the Office of the Executive Director – EDS 01 won the “Open for Business” award for the most transparent website among the 25 World Bank Executive Directors’ offices. Mr. McGuire, Executive Director from the United States of America, received the award during the CSO Roundtable with World Bank …
The World Bank has a complex track record with human rights and the environment. On one hand, they are one of the world’s most important development institutions, and their main goals are to eliminate poverty and boost prosperity. On the other, they have a history of sidelining the well-being of communities and ecosystems that are …
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 …
On September 30th, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission held a hearing at the United States Congress on international financial institutions (IFIs) and human rights, chaired by Congressman Jim McGovern. Witnesses included BIC’s Nezir Sinani from Kosovo, Milton Sanchez from Peru, and Obang Metho from Ethiopia, who testified on the human rights impacts of World …
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 …