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  • 17 May 2023

    ADB safeguards policy update must prioritise people and the planet, says NGO Forum on ADB

    By NGO Forum on ADB
    As the Asian Development Bank (ADB) commemorates its 56th year of operations in Asia, the NGO Forum on ADB and its allies raised concerns about the potential dilution of key safeguard commitments.
  • 15 May 2023

    World Bank project complaints plagued by fear of reprisal

    By Shabtai Gold, Devex
    Complainants coming forward are seeing their communities being uprooted to make way for things like new roads, dams, and power plants. They are often powerless compared to those who have a financial stake in the projects’ success, and many face harsh retaliation for speaking out.
  • 13 April 2023

    Thousands of Individuals Urge the International Finance Corporation to Guarantee Justice for Communities Harmed by Development Projects

    By Niccolo Sarno, CIEL, and Margaux Day, Accountability Counsel
    This week, 4,577 individuals from around the world demanded that the International Finance Corporation guarantee justice for communities harmed by international development projects.
  • 3 April 2023

    Ukraine Joining the EU – An Elephant in the Room

    By Hannes Lorenzen and Hans Wetzels, ARC2020
    A delegation of the Region of Vinnytsia in Central Ukraine recently visited various agricultural and rural development projects and facilities in the Region of Lüneburg in Low Saxony, Germany, in order to gather ideas for recovery and reorientation of farming and food supply in times of war.
  • 28 March 2023

    Gates Foundation Should Match Its Massive Global Giving With a Massive Commitment to Accountability

    By Stephanie Amoako and Gregory Berry, Accountability Counsel
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it would spend a record $8.3 billion to respond to the compounding crises of war, climate change, stumbling economies, and infectious disease. Unfortunately, this increased spending has not been accompanied by an increased commitment to accountability.
  • 23 March 2023

    A is for Abuse: Two Harvard Grads Saw Big Profits in African Education. Children Paid the Price.

    By Neha Wadekar and Ryan Grim, The Intercept
    An aggressive startup set out to disrupt African education, supported by social impact investors. Now it’s plagued by a sexual abuse investigation.
  • 16 March 2023

    IFC policy for when projects cause harm lambasted as ‘letdown’

    By Adva Saldinger, Devex
    The IFC has released a new policy to govern how it responds when projects go wrong and seriously harm people or the environment, but advocates lambasted its “shocking” failure to go far enough or address past problems.
  • 27 February 2023

    To the Editor: Re “World Bank President, Dogged by Climate Questions, Will Leave a Year Early”

    By Margaux Day, Accountability Counsel
    In tackling some of humanity’s most pressing crises, the next World Bank president must be an accountability champion. That means not only respecting the rights of local communities, but also remedying harm caused by World Bank projects when it occurs.
  • 27 February 2023

    New mechanism could strengthen accountability of China’s mining projects

    By Margaux Day, Accountability Counsel, and Zelda Liang, independent consultant with Inclusive Development International
    A new grievance mechanism for Chinese overseas mining needs to be free to use, and must protect communities from company interference and retaliation.
  • 17 January 2023

    Who decides what is effective in Effective Altruism?

    By Margaux Day, Accountability Counsel
    In the weeks following the FTX collapse, some of the scrutiny has turned to Effective Altruism – but instead of asking whether to condemn or support the movement, the more crucial question is one that applies far beyond: who defines what effective giving is in the first place?
  • 11 December 2022

    Fund managers should push lithium, copper miners to be better role models on environment, labour issues, proxy advisory firm says

    By Eric Ng, South China Morning Post
    Global fund managers should push producers of lithium, cobalt and copper – key metals used in electric vehicles (EVs) and other decarbonisation equipment – for greater transparency on environmental and social issues arising from their operations, a proxy advisory firm said.
  • 22 October 2022

    China’s ban on overseas coal power plants is good for the climate… but where’s the support for renewable energy? experts ask

    By Eric Ng and Yujie Xue, South China Morning Post
    Beijing’s pledge a year ago has put a ‘significant dent’ in planned coal-fired projects overseas, says a climate report – but greater support is needed to get low-emission projects up and running to replace the cancelled coal projects, analysts say.
  • 19 October 2022

    Public Development Banks can’t drag their feet when it comes to building a sustainable future

    By Forus
    Stephanie Amoako, Senior Policy Associate at Accountability Counsel, said: “PDBs must be accountable to the communities impacted by their projects. All PDBs need to have an effective accountability mechanism to address concerns with projects and should commit to preventing and fully remediating any harm to communities.”
  • 17 October 2022

    The Equator Principles have two big problems: a fossil-fuel problem and an accountability problem

    By Ryan Brightwell, BankTrack; Natalie Bugalski, Inclusive Development International; and Margaux Day, Accountability Counsel
    Either they get solved at the annual meeting of signatories starting today in Seoul, or the principles risk fading into irrelevance.
  • 13 October 2022

    DataKind Partner Spotlight: Accountability Counsel

    By Samer Araabi, Accountability Counsel, with DataKind
    We’re reflecting on our project with Accountability Counsel as they look to the future, seeing where there are opportunities and challenges with data science in supporting their mission.
  • 4 October 2022

    World Bank’s accountability mechanisms – still a long way to go

    By Bretton Woods Project
    57 CSOs submit comments on the Draft operating procedures for the Accountability Mechanism and Inspection Panel. CSOs highlight concerns about the proposed mechanisms, including lack of clarity on the structure.
  • 28 September 2022

    ¿Qué esperar del liderazgo del BID?

    By Carolina Juaneda
    BIC junto a las organizaciones que endosan celebran la decisión de la Junta de Gobernadores de seguir la recomendación unánime del Directorio del BID y destituir rápidamente al Sr. Claver-Carone.
  • 28 September 2022

    What to expect from IDB’s leadership?

    By Carolina Juaneda
    BIC and the endorsing organizations commend the decision of the Board of Governors to follow the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Directors and swiftly remove Mr. Claver-Carone.
  • 21 September 2022

    Instead of Disruption, Leverage What Already Exists

    By Jim Bildner and Stephanie Khurana, DRK
    In times of extreme political polarization and governmental dysfunction, “leverage-first” organizations create impact by working within existing systems, however imperfect they may be.
  • 13 September 2022

    Who Pays The Cost Of Europe’s Energy Crisis?

    By Sutharee Wannasiri, Accountability Counsel
    As Europe’s economy continues to buckle under a worsening energy crisis, proposals to expand investment in green energy projects should be welcome news. However, local communities that stand to be impacted by these projects have ample cause for alarm, given these institutions’ worrying track records of causing direct harm through their investments.
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