Our Regional Coordinators in Africa, Asia, and Latin America – in coordination with the Community Resource Exchange Facilitators – build power at the regional level with local, national and regional groups by strengthening capacities and coordinating advocacy around development finance and human rights.
Examples of activities include:
- capacity exchanges for grassroots organizations and allies to hold development financiers accountable;
- gatherings to strategize, mobilize and organize campaigns on regional development banks like the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, and InterAmerican Development Bank;
- outreach to potential partners and recruiting them into our mission;
- cross-regional research and advocacy on global issues such as the Just Energy Transition.
Africa
UNDP-funded project in Sierra Leone leads to land-grabbing, violence and criminalization of local activists
In Sierra Leone, a UNDP-funded project has led to a series of appalling human rights violations, including the death of a two-day old baby, ...
Amplifying Local Voices: Our Coalition’s Member Jamaa Resource Initiatives joins the EBRD CSO Steering Committee
In this blog, our Coalition's member Maurice Ouma Odhiambo (Jamaa Resource Initiatives, Kenya) explains why he joined the CSO EBRD Committee and ...
AfDB CSOs Working Group newsletter – February 2026
Welcome to the new edition of our African Development Bank (AfDB) CSO Working Group newsletter!
The future we want: voices from African mining-affected communities
In this page, you can read a short profile of the communities who participated in our collective multimedia exhibition at the 2026 Alternative ...
Strengthening safeguard accountability through community engagement in the Gambia
In this blog, our CRE collaborator Open Society Platform The Gambia shares how they are strengthening safeguard accountability through community ...
Wongan Women Initiative resist Lake Turkana Wind Power Project in Loiyangalani, Kenya
Teresalba shares her community’s experience resisting the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project in Loiyangalani, Kenya—and how women are bearing the ...
When Global Policy Meets Lived Reality: Community Voices from Johannesburg’s G20 Week.
In this blog, we share some reflections on the distance between global policy and lived realities at the G20, and on the importance of ...
Africa Community Day
On 30 October 2025, +50 representatives of communities and CSOs gathered for the "Africa Community Day", an initiative of the AfDB CSOs working ...
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Latin America
The dark side of green hydrogen & community resistance in Chile and Uruguay
From Chile to Uruguay, green hydrogen is being promoted as the “magic wand” capable of simultaneously solving the region’s energy crisis, ...
Position paper: Collective Demands on Community-Led Development in the Framework of the Just Energy Transition
In this position paper, Coalition members and partners articulate their key demands for a community-led approach to the just energy transition.
Webinar on Challenges and Possibilities for Documenting Harmful Human Rights Impacts
Recording of a webinar on methodologies and platforms that support communities in generating evidence to defend their territories and rights.
COP30 and the People’s Summit
Learn about the activities that the Coalition is supporting and organizing on the road to COP30 in Belém, toward a truly just energy transition ...
No Alto Maipo: report on the campaign and advocacy strategies
This report was co-created with Marcela Mella Ortiz, a renowned leader of the Coordinadora Ciudadana No Alto Maipo movement, based on a series ...
Sharing Knowledge in Defending Territories: Insights from Legal Webinar Series
This year, the CRE held a series of webinars on grassroots legal defense,. These sessions created spaces to exchange ideas, hear directly about ...
The Planet is Burning and Communities Worldwide Are Calling for Justice
The upcoming COP in Belém do Pará highlights the Amazon’s central role in climate stability, yet decision-making remains dominated by political ...
Loreto’s blog: Defend Vital Space for Communities
"What for investors is a business space, for communities is a vital space. It is precisely that act of inhabiting that gives us the right to ...
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Asia and Caucasus
Beutong Ateuh Banggalang: The Land that Sustains Life
In this blog, our CRE partner Apel Green Aceh speaks about their precious work to protect Aceh's lush forests and fight against deforestation, ...
Exploring strategies to resist the Chinese-funded Teluk Sepang coal plant and other dirty energy projects in Indonesia
In this blog, our Indonesian CRE partners IMA and KHI share about their struggle for environmental justice and human rights, and their recent ...
Position paper: Collective Demands on Community-Led Development in the Framework of the Just Energy Transition
In this position paper, Coalition members and partners articulate their key demands for a community-led approach to the just energy transition.
Converting Lives into Kilowatts: Resettlement Plans for Rogun Hydropower Project Threaten Tens of Thousands of People
A new analysis of the resettlement plan for the Rogun hydropower project reveals serious shortcomings that could negatively affect over 60,000 people.
Carrying the River’s Cry Across the Sea
In this blog, John Ian Alenciaga, Coordinator of the Jalaur River for the People’s Movement (JRPM) shares his reflections from their South Korea ...
From Buol to Bangkok: bringing grassroots voices to a global advocacy forum
In this blog, our CRE partner Fatrisia Ain shares her experience at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights Asia-Pacific, where she brought ...
Joint letter to ADB – Concerns re: growing engagement with Israel
In this joint letter, over 50 civil society organizations write to the ADB ro raise concerns about its growing engagement with Israel despite ...
Balochistan’s Reko Diq copper mine: Mineral extraction must respect human rights and the environment
Dozens of international CSOs are calling on international financiers, including the IFC and the ADB, to reconsider financing Reko Diq, a ...
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