Accountability Counsel amplifies the voices of communities around the world to protect their human rights and environment. As advocates for people harmed by internationally financed projects, we employ community driven and policy level strategies to access justice.
Impact
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Communities Supported142
Our impact includes redesigned projects that now reflect community needs, harm stopped and prevented to defend water resources, and agreements resulting in compensation.
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Institutions Influenced162
We advocate for investors to create accountability offices that are independent, transparent, fair, and effective. We have improved policy and practice at development institutions, commercial banks, UN agencies, and within the OECD.
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Complaints Tracked2,000+
We created and maintain the Accountability Console, a comprehensive database of community complaints filed with independent accountability mechanisms about the impacts of internationally financed projects.
News
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6 May, 2025The EBRD in Sub-Saharan Africa: Expanding Horizons, Expanding Harm?
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is expanding into Sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq. Unless it ramps up its policies to prevent and remedy negative environmental and social impacts, it risks replicating harm that communities in the region are already experiencing. -
30 April, 2025Indigenous Peoples rights violated in hydropower projects across Nepal, report finds
A human rights group this week released a report accusing four hydropower projects in Nepal funded by multilateral development banks of violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, leading among other things to severe biodiversity harm. -
28 April, 2025New report reveals how government and development banks have failed to uphold Indigenous Peoples rights in hydropower projects across Nepal
A new report, launched today by Accountability Counsel and LAHURNIP, exposes critical violations of the rights of Indigenous Peoples to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent in four hydropower projects in Nepal. -
28 April, 2025New resource guides Indigenous communities defending their rights in Nepal
Accountability Counsel and Lawyers Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples publish “A Community Guide to Demand Ingenious Peoples Rights in Hydropower Projects in Nepal” – a short and informative leaflet for affected Indigenous communities in Nepal to learn about and advocate for their human rights. -
21 April, 2025Statement by Civil Society and Community Organizations on the Adoption of the First Remedy Framework at the World Bank Group
Responding to intense sustained advocacy efforts by project-affected communities and civil society organizations, the Boards of the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, approved their long-awaited Interim Remedial Action Framework.We applaud IFC/MIGA for advancing this framework, which contains promising commitments that, if well implemented, could address a troubling history of IFC/MIGA allowing environmental damage and human rights abuses to go unremedied.
