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
From community-led land stewardship to Indigenous water systems: stories of community-led development in Kenya’s geothermal sites
From community-led land stewardship to Indigenous water systems: in this blog, Charlize Tomaselli shares a series stories of community-led ...
Lost in Translation: Reflections from the AfDB CSO Working Group Engagements at the Bank’s 61st Annual Meetings
Dozens of CSOs joined the AfDB’s 61st Annual Meetings in May to demand accountability, stronger safeguards and meaningful participation. Once ...
Uganda: the community struggle that stopped a forest from becoming a city
In January 2026, the communities living near the Kitubulu Central Forest Reserve in Uganda celebrated a victory: after months of mobilization, ...
AfDB’s Role in Kenya’sGeothermal Expansion
Kenya's geothermal expansion is often praised as a model for Africa’s clean energy future and the AfDB is heavily investing in this sector. Yet, ...
AfDB Newsletter – May 2026
Welcome to the new edition of our African Development Bank (AfDB) CSO Working Group newsletter!
Centering Community Voices in Just Energy Development: Reflections on the 2026 Alternative Mining Indaba
In this blog, our interns Masande Sigebu and Alessandra Thunde share their reflections on the 2026 Alternative Mining Indaba and some of the ...
When small drops shift power
In this blog, we share some key takeaways from a cross-regional learning exchange organized by the Community Resource Exchange, focused on ...
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, ...
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Latin America
Restricted Participation: Brief on Civic Space Trendsin Latin America
This brief, co-created with members and partners in LAC, highlights recent trends in Latin America that undermine the right to participation in ...
Berta Cáceres, 10 Years of Hope
Ten years after the planting of Berta Cáceres, the Coalition for Human Rights in Development joins COPINH in honoring her life and struggle.
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 ...
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Asia and Caucasus
Reflections from the EBRD Annual Meetings:what does the Bank’s commitment to civil society really mean?
Refection from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)’s 2026 Annual Meeting in Riga, Latvia.
New report out: Financing the Transition, Silencing Defenders
Across Asia communities and human rights defenders who are resisting energy transition projects funded by development banks are facing growing ...
ADB 2026 Annual Meeting
On May 3-6, 2026, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held its Annual Meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It has been over a decade since the bank ...
A recipe for disaster:the Reko diq copper mine in Balochistan, Pakistan
The #RethinkRekoDiq campaign is coordinated by a group of local and international civil society organizations and individual activists. These ...
Pakistan’s Indigenous Torwali people are fighting to save the Swat River
In Pakistan, Indigenous Torwali people are fighting to save the Swat River and opposing a proposed World Bank-funder hydropower project, amid ...
Human rights concerns around development finance-backed Reko Diq mining project in Balochistan
The Reko Diq mining project in Balochistan (Pakistan) has been exacerbating risks for human rights defenders, fueling conflict and insecurity, ...
Unmasking the Hypocrisy Behind Kazakhstan NGO Foreign Funding Law
In Kazakhstan, foreign capital is celebrated as a driver of progress by the state, while foreign-funded civil society is painted as a threat.
ADB’s New Approach to Mining Risks Fueling Conflict
Across Asia, a new rush for “critical minerals” is intensifying conflict, repression, and militarization in resource-rich territories. Framed as ...
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