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
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.
Grounded Transitions
"Grounded Transitions" centers the voices of mining-affected communities and reveals how the current policy discussions – behind the slogans of ...
Holding on to Land, Energy, and Justice: A Feminist Story from Mount Suswa to South Africa
Justice for the land can never be achieved without justice for women. In this blog, feminist leader and community activists Penina Nailantei ...
AfDB CSOs Working Group newsletter – May 2025
Welcome to the 2nd edition of the African Development Bank (AfDB) CSO Working Group newsletter!
How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia
How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia. To dismantle sacrifice zones, ...
Kenya: the true impact of the AfDB-funded Menengai geothermal project
In the heart of Kenya's Rift Valley, the Menengai geothermal project—despite being presented as a green, sustainable solution advancing a “just” ...
Behind the “green” transition: the impact of graphite mining in Ulanga, Tanzania
Despite promises of benefits for the local community, the Mahende graphite mining project (funded by DBSA) is leading to many harmful impacts.
Press release: Civil society at the Finance in Common Summit calls for community-led, equitable, and human rights-based development
As public development banks gather for the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) in Cape Town, South Africa, civil society and community activists ...
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Latin America
2025 IDB Annual Meetings in Chile
IDB Annual Meetings in Chile
Chile hosted the sixty-fifth Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank ...
How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia
How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia. To dismantle sacrifice zones, ...
Moving forward with collective work in Latin America: Roadmap 2025-2027
The 2025-2027 Roadmap for regional work in Latin America is the result of multiple strategic conversations, consultations and surveys of the ...
Public development banks: sustainers of inequality
In this op-ed, originally published by Resumen, Loreto Vasquez Salvador (ACUE) questions the role of public development banks play and the ...
The Extractivist Cause Behind the Energy Transition is a Feminist Cause
In this blog, our CRE partner Asamblea Ciudadana Ultima Esperanza (Chile) analyses the connection between extractivism and patriarchy, ...
Energy Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico
In 2019 Otros Mundos founded the Red de Biodigestores (Biodigester Network) in Chiapas, composed of Indigenous and campesino families working to ...
Webinar on community journalism: Reporting to resist
On 12 February, the Coalition for Human Rights in Development organised a regional exchange meeting with independent media and citizen ...
Annual Report 2024: Reclaiming human rights and collective healing in the climate crisis
In our Annual Report, you can find inspiring stories of community-led struggles, analysis of some thematic priorities, a snapshot of our work in ...
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Asia and Caucasus
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 ...
Centering Communities is Crucial in Building Tomorrow: Reflections from the 58th ADB Annual Meeting
In this blog, CHRD Asia Regional Coordinator Tala Batangan shares her reflections and some key highlights from the ADB Annual Meetings.
Civil society groups condemn ZCMC’s retaliation against eight workers, who went on strike to demand better labour conditions and environmental protection
A group of over 25 human rights and workers’ rights organizations from across the world has signed a joint statement to strongly condemn the ...
Protecting rivers, protecting life: the struggle of Nepal’s Indigenous Majhi communities against large-scale dams
In this blog, Rita Majhi (Nepal Majhi Women Upliftment Association) and Anusha Shrestha (CEMSOJ) explain how large-scale dams are threatening ...
How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia
How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia. To dismantle sacrifice zones, ...
Joint statement: Urgent Call on the IFC and the EBRD for Remedy and Accountability at Indorama Agro, Uzbekistan
On April 3, 89 civil society organizations signed a joint statement calling on the IFC and the EBRD to ensure remedy and accountability, for ...
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