After The ECONOMIST was inundated with responses to its misguided article (“Right cause, wrong battle”, April 12th), the magazine has now published a letter from Gender and SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) activists from around the world online, in addition to several letters to the editor in its print version. BIC, the Council for Global …
Photo: Gerald Simmons CC BY 2.0 Model Proposal: Climate Change Assessment (CCA) Safeguard Policy Submission to the World Bank Safeguard Policy Review Unlike many institutions, the Bank has not yet formally integrated climate issues into its operational policies. Most notably, the current Safeguard Policy framework does not adequately address the challenges a changing climate presents …
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Contact: Nicole Ghio (nicole.ghio@sierraclub.org) 202-675-6270 Jelson Garcia (jgarcia@bicusa.org) and Bharat Patel (bharatp1977@gmail.com) , 202 802 2995 As the World Bank and IMF hold their Annual Spring Meetings this week, the General Secretary of Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS – Association for the Struggle for Fishworkers’ Rights) Dr.Bharat Patel will deliver a …
As the World Bank proceeds with its two year review of the Program for Results (P4R) lending instrument, significant concerns remain among civil society about how P4R is working and how it constitutes a serious dilution of World Bank safeguards, effectively exempting billions of dollars of lending each year from social and environmental safeguards and …
The Bank Information Center (BIC), in collaboration with the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests (AMPB), held the Second International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards on March 15th and 16th in San Jose, Costa Rica, with broad participation by Mesoamerican indigenous and community leaders. The event was the second workshop held by BIC in …
The World Bank has launched the development of a new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Egypt that will constitute the framework for the Bank’s projects and lending priorities in Egypt for the period from 2015 to 2018. A group of Egyptian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) met with World Bank officials in Cairo in February, following …
Forbes Asia recently published an article, entitled “Doing Big Business in Modi’s Gujarat“, that exposes the political context and the influence of Big Business interests in the development of the Tata Mundra Coal Plant. The project has faced growing opposition by fishing companies over the national and World Bank policy violations, which were confirmed in …
Congratulations to Lloyd Gamble and World Wildlife Fund for being selected as the new Northern CSO Observer to the FCPF Readiness and Carbon Funds. Voting for the new observer closed on Friday, March 14th with two candidates – World Wildlife Fund and Carbonfund.org Foundation, Inc – up for the position. All duties associated with the …
The World Bank hosted a panel discussion on the “Economic Cost of Homophobia,” featuring a study that measures the economic impact of excluding LGBT communities in India. Dr. M.V. Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, presented the preliminary findings of the study. Here are a few figures from the presentation: More Info:
The Bank Information Center, in collaboration with the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests, will hold the “Second International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards in Indigenous Territories and Forest Communities of Mesoamerica” in San Jose, Costa Rica on March 15th and 16th. The main objective of the workshop is to facilitate discussions of regional safeguards principles …