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The Coalition has over 100 members based in around 50 countries.
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STORIES & UPDATES
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!
Collective struggles, collective victories: check out our 2021 Annual Report!
As 2021 draws to an end, we would like to take a moment to recognize the incredible work that members and partners of the Coalition have been doing to advance community-led struggles around the world. As the pandemic, growing inequality, and climate and ecological crises continue to harm communities in already vulnerable situations, it would be easy to lose hope. Yet, we are seeing more and more people fighting to turn the tide and joining forces to demand dignity, justice, equality, and...
More than 70 CSOs raise their concerns about the review process of AfDB’s Integrated Safeguard System
On November 19, more than 70 civil society organizations from across the African continent and international supporters addressed a letter to the African Development Bank (AfDB), to raise their concerns about the review process of its Integrated Safeguard System (ISS) and to demand a more transparent, comprehensive, and inclusive consultation process. Re: Stakeholder consultation in the Integrated Safeguard System review We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to express our support for...
Recommendations to strengthen IDB Group’s engagement with Civil Society and Project Affected Communities
On November 8, 2021, 30 civil society organizations - including many Coalition members - addressed a letter to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), expressing their concerns in regard to the process to review the second IDB Group-Civil Society Action Plan (2022-2024). Below, you can find the text of the letter: Dear Mr. Claver-Carone, As civil society organizations who have engaged for years with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), actively engaged in the safeguards review, and...
Public Development Banks Fail to Meet Commitments to Human Rights & Community-led Development
By Siddharth Akali October 16, 2021 - If you had two trillion dollars, how would you spend it? Will you use it to make the world a better place? How will you know you’re making a positive impact for those who are most vulnerable? Who will you ask for advice? For the 500 public development banks (PDBs) meeting at the second global Finance in Common summit on October 19-20, these questions are more than just hypotheticals. As their name suggests, PDBs are publicly funded, and they have a...
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 at FIC to end the financing of corporate agribusiness operations and speculative investments. The letter is also available in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and Japanese. Over 450 Public...
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 Uganda impacted by the Wadelai irrigation project. On August 10, 2021, sixteen members of Paten Clan, a community in Pakwach District in northern Uganda, were shot at and wounded by local police...
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, however, the virus has not arrived. Or at least, that’s what the government claims.Turkmenistan is one of the handful countries in the world that has reported zero COVID-19 cases. According to the government,...
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 of them have been threatened, attacked or arrested. Development banks have poured over 150 billions of dollars into financing governments’ responses to the pandemic worldwide. However, they have failed...
The Community Resource Exchange: spreading our branches and roots
The pandemic has confirmed to us the importance of building and nurturing connections. When development finance institutions, governments, corporations and other elites fail us, we have to come together under the leadership of indigenous peoples, front line communities, social movements and grassroots groups. We have to join forces to resist, to confront power imbalance and structural discrimination, to protect human and environmental rights, and to ensure development can be truly...
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COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE
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.
DEFENDERS IN DEVELOPMENT
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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Together with our members and allies, we work at the national and regional level to strengthen capacity, coordination, and advocacy around development finance and human rights.
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Kichwa leader, Marisol García, is demanding that Total Energies be held responsible for buying carbon credits from a project that displaced her community from their territory. Stay tuned to @ForestPeoplesP for news from her trip to Paris.
🔥On May 13, 2024, Mr. Fred Balikenda & his family of 12 including a baby & several children were evicted from their home by @GovUganda for @TotalEnergiesUG's Tilenga oil project. The family's house was demolished. Read the statement on their eviction: https://www.afiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Statement-on-Mr.-Fred-Balikendas-eviction-17-May-2024.pdf
🌍 We're urging the @ADB_HQ to go back to the drawing board! 🖌️ It's time for an overhaul of the proposed ESF, updating the outdated 2009 Safeguards Policy.
READ: https://www.forum-adb.org/post/forumesfsubmission
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