Research
Accountability Counsel’s Research program informs the movement for transparency and accountability in international finance. Our research exposes patterns that show advocates, policy-makers, and the institutions themselves best practice and where improvement is needed most. The Accountability Console, our interactive database of every community complaint ever filed to every accountability office, is a key tool in this work.
Our Research team:
- conducts in-depth qualitative and quantitative research to support our case and policy work,
- creates interactive tools like Zwazo to improve transparency and access to information, and
- through the Console, collects, analyzes, and shares data related to accountability in international finance.
In addition, this program houses a set of internal tools that assist Accountability Counsel’s team to track the progress of their work, synchronize work between teams, and gauge effectiveness in relation to our broader theory of change.
Watch the recording of our Introduction to the Accountability Console webinar to learn how to use the world’s most comprehensive database of accountability office complaints.
Reports
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In cooperation with the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (2020)
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by Lawyers’ Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP) and Accountability Counsel (2019)
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Mandarin translation of 2016 Glass Half Full report, co-authored by Accountability Counsel and 10 other organizations (2019)
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Mongolian translation of “From Paper to Progress” scorecard report by Accountability Counsel (2019)
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by Accountability Counsel (2019)
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by Accountability Counsel (2016)
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co-authored by Accountability Counsel and 10 other organizations (2016)
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by Accountability Counsel (2016)
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by Lawyers’ Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP) and Accountability Counsel (2015)
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An analysis of 15 years of NCP cases and their contribution to improve access to remedy for victims of corporate misconduct by OECD Watch (2015)
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by Accountability Counsel (2014)
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Annex to the complaint filed on January 22, 2014 to OPIC by farmers, charcoal producers, and workers harmed by Buchanan Renewables’ operations in Liberia, by Accountability Counsel and Green Advocates International (2014)
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A critique of the palm oil mill effluent study of July 25, 2011 related to Inspection Panel request no. RQ 09/10, Smallholder Agriculture Development Project (SADP) (2011)
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Case summary and duties of the World Bank in Papa New Guinea, by Accountability Counsel and Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR) (2011)
