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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 other actors accountable for their impacts on people and the planet. Find out more reading the latest updates on our work and our collective campaigns!
If it generates debt, it is not development
If it generates debt, it is not development. Who is readjusting the international financial system and for what purpose? This article was originally published by Yannia Sofia Garzón Valencia on the online platform Diaspora on 11 September 2023. The fourth Finance in Common Summit was held in Cartagena, Colombia, on September 4-6 of this year. Bankers, finance ministers, directors of economic conglomerates with special emphasis on infrastructure, directors of "green" mechanisms, deans of...
FIC23: Civil Society Insights
This month, public development banks from all over the world met in Cartagena, Colombia, for the Finance in Common 2023 Summit with a stated agenda of making development finance more inclusive and more sustainable. We shine a spotlight on critical analyses from civil society Finance in Common participants:
FIC23: Beyond propaganda
Beyond propaganda: activists from all over the world join the Finance in Common Summit to denounce real impact of development finance Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), 4 September 2023 - As the world’s largest development banks gather for the Finance in Common summit (FICS) in Cartagena, Colombia, to pat themselves on the back for all the good they’re doing around the world, a group of over 35 civil society activists from 20 countries has come together to denounce how these institutions are...
CSOs declaration – Civil Society Declaration – Finance in Common Summit 2023
As the world’s PDBs gather for the Finance in Common Summit in Cartagena, Colombia, over 40 civil society organizations, communities and human rights defenders have joined forces in calling on PDBs to move from words of good intent to concrete actions that center communities, with people – not profit – at their heart. Justice, equality, human rights, sustainability, transparency, accountability and dignity for all must be more than just slogans.
World Bank must prioritize civic space and participation in its Evolution Roadmap
Around 65 civil society organizations from 35 countries submitted a joint statement calling on the World Bank Group to prioritize civic space and participation in its Evolution Roadmap.
Recommendations on reprisals for the EBRD E&S Policy review
A group of 17 CSOs from around the world addressed a letter to the EBRD, presenting a series of recommendations on how the Bank should address reprisal issues.
Newsletter – June 2023
Check out the June 2023 edition of our newsletter to read updates from our members and partners around the world, their inspiring stories, and useful resources!
Kenya: conservation project leads to human rights violations and reprisals
In Korbesa, a village in the region of Isiolo in Eastern Kenya, a conservation project is leading to violent attacks against the local community. On May 8, 2023, Kenyan police violently cracked down on a protest against the conservation agency Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT), firing live ammunition and tear gas into the unarmed crowd. The community was protesting against the opening of an NRT office in their village and the imposition of a conservation project without their free, prior and...
Communities in Liberia fight back against the International Finance Corporation
For the Indigenous communities living near the Salala rubber plantation in Liberia, life is a daily struggle. The milky latex extracted from the rubber trees is sold to the largest tyres manufacturers in the world, and it is the 4th most exported product in the country. For local people, though, it has brought no benefit. On the contrary, it has led to loss of livelihood, destruction of sacred sites, pollution, and gender-based violence. In 2008, the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
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The CRE is a system to facilitate collaborations and co-develop strategies with and among communities, who are defending their rights in the context of international investments and development projects.
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A global campaign to prevent and address risks that human rights defenders face when raising their voices about projects funded by development banks.
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🌿 Forum is shedding light on CSO reflections regarding the @ADB_HQ Draft ESF and proposed changes in safeguards policy.
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The Lower Sesan 2 Dam is being partly funded by ABBank, a financial intermediary (FI) client of the @IFC_org. Financial intermediaries represent the nexus between development finance and commercial banking.
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