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DEVELOPMENT BY
THE PEOPLE,
FOR THE PEOPLE

Together with hundreds of members and partners around the world, we are working to advance community-led development and push development banks to respect people and the planet.

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KfW: Irresponsible Banking

Our new report reveals the stark gap between the human rights commitments of KfW - Germany's public development bank - and the reality on the ground. In particular, it shows how KfW is failing to take adequate steps to ensure people can freely and safely participate, express their opinions, or oppose its projects.

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THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE STRUGGLES

In our quarterly newsletters, you can find updates from our members and partners around the world, inspiring stories about community-led struggles, useful resources, and much more!

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DEMYSTIFYING DEVELOPMENT FINANCE

Development banks present themselves as champions in the fight against climate change and key drivers of sustainable development. But is this true?

Research and case studies from all over the world show that these institutions are actually exacerbating the problems they claim to solve.

STORIES & ADVOCACY

With our members and partners, we work to ensure that frontline communities have the information, power and resources to determine their own development paths, and to use their own voice to hold development banks and international companies accountable for their impacts on people and the planet.

Check out the latest updates on our work, find out about our latest campaigns and advocacy efforts, and join our collective campaigns!

Development banks have no business financing agribusiness

On October 18, ahead of the second edition of the Finance in Common (FIC) summit, over 280 civil society organizations and grassroots groups - including many members and allies of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development - have signed a letter calling on public development banks gathered ...

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Open letter to African Development Bank and Nordic Development Fund: Address reprisals against Paten Clan

On September 9, a group of organizations that are members of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development and other allies sent an open letter to the African Development Bank and the Nordic Development Fund, calling on them to take immediate actions to address reprisals against a community in ...

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A COVID-19 Loan for COVID-Denying Turkmenistan

The World Bank approved a COVID-19 loan for Turkmenistan, despite journalists reporting on the pandemic there being thrown in jail. In July, the World Bank signed a $20 million loan for Turkmenistan, to address the health and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Turkmenistan, ...

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Unhealthy Silence: Development banks’ inaction on retaliation during COVID-19

Since the beginning of the pandemic, health workers, journalists, human rights defenders and other frontline workers have courageously criticized, scrutinized and reported on the inadequate responses to COVID-19 and provided crucial information about the spread of the virus. For doing so, many ...

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Press release: New report exposes how development finance institutions failed to protect those who reported on or criticized COVID-19 responses

Unhealthy Silence: new report exposes how development finance institutions failed to protect those who reported on or criticized COVID-19 responses July 27, 2021 - Since the beginning of the pandemic, doctors, nurses, journalists and other frontline workers have courageously criticized or ...

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IDB Invest and IFC’s new guidance on reprisals: a welcome step, but more is needed

In March 2021, IDB Invest and IFC released a new guidance which lays out 10 steps companies should take to screen, prevent and respond to reprisals. In this blog, Hannah Storey analyses the document and explains why, although this is a welcome and important step, much more is needed to truly ...

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Coalition’s updates

In this section, you can find updates about our Coalition’s processes and structures (e.g.: updates from the Steering Committee, our strategy-setting process, etc.).

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Members Map

The Coalition has over 100 members based in around 50 countries.
Click here to check who our members are and learn more about their work.

OUR COLLECTIVE WORK

The members and partners of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development work together to ensure that development is community-led and that it respects, protects, and fulfills human rights.

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