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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!
Community Resource Exchange: call for proposals
The Community Resource Exchange (CRE) is calling for proposals for the first round of facilitated collaborations and financial assistance grants under its three year pilot. Download here the application form and watch the webinar below to find out how the CRE works. Collaboration requests for financial assistance are only processed three times a year and applications for this first call must be received by Sunday, 15th August, 2021. All proposals will be reviewed and decisions are expected to...
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 tackle reprisals. In a world where human rights defenders are threatened and attacked for opposing development projects, IFC and IDB Invest’s new guidance for the private sector on addressing...
CSOs Letter to EBRD President on Egypt
On 15 April 2021, on the 30th anniversary of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, over 25 civil society organizations addressed a letter to the Bank, urging it to put human rights issues at the top of the agenda when discussing the next Egypt country strategy and during the upcoming visit to Cairo. You can find the CSOs' letter below and here you can download EBRD's response to the letter. Read also a joint op-ed published in Le Monde (by Bénédicte Jeannerod, Director Human...
Safety of journalists, COVID-19, and the role of public development banks
On 16 April 2021, as part of the Defenders in Development campaign, the Coalition presented a joint submission - together with press freedom organizations Article19, Comittee to Protect Journalists and IFEX - to the UN Human Rights Council for their upcoming report on Covid-19 and journalist safety. You can read the full submission here. Around the world journalists, bloggers, media and medical workers, human rights defenders and all those who are scrutinizing or raising concerns for...
The Coalition welcomes new members: ACCA, Civicus and Namati
We have hit the 100-members milestone: in March 2021, the Coalition for human rights in development welcomed the African Centre for Corporate Accountability (ACCA), Civicus and Namati among its members. We are proud of this milestone, and we are deeply grateful and humbled by the incredible work our new and old members are carrying out around the world. We are also grateful to all those other organizations, groups and people who - even though are not official members - work very closely with...
Covid-19 response in Myanmar: civil society organizations urge IFIs not to collaborate with the junta
International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and States must work directly with civil society and other stakeholders on COVID-19: collaborating with the junta on public health would jeopardize Myanmar’s COVID-19 response, legitimize the junta, and harm public health in the long term. On 17 March 2021, 225 Myanmar civil society organizations, international groups and individuals addressed the following open letter to the international community, and in particular, to International Financial...
Too little, too late: World Bank rents military land despite partial loans freeze, and MFI inaction risks legitimizing the junta
Myanmar’s nationwide civil disobedience movement (CDM), based on “no recognition, no participation,” is key to stopping the military from consolidating power after its 1 February 2021 coup d’état. Multilateral finance institutions (MFIs) must support the CDM, stating they will not deal with the junta. Until today, they remain silent, proffering vague concerns or, despite freezing some payments, legitimizing the junta. Delay and half-measures undermine the CDM, buying time for the junta, which...
Our work in 2020: highlights, achievements, and next steps
As the year draws to an end, we would like to take a moment to celebrate our collective struggles and to reflect on the next steps ahead. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges, hurting already vulnerable communities the most and exacerbating structural problems. Yet, our members, partners and communities we work with have been extremely creative and powerful in their response to the pandemic, adopting new strategies to address these unexpected challenges. Solidarity was...
Global Summit of Development Banks Fails to Learn from Destructive Past
In November, 450 public development banks from around the world met for the Finance in Common Summit at the Paris Peace Forum. They gathered to discuss how they can direct their combined investments of over USD 2 trillion – 10% of total investments in the world – “to support the transformation or the global economy” and “build new forms of prosperity that take care of people and the planet.” However, the summit has done little to fundamentally transform development so it is bottom up,...
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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.
REGIONAL WORK
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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🌿 Forum is shedding light on CSO reflections regarding the @ADB_HQ Draft ESF and proposed changes in safeguards policy.
We'll discuss recommendations to safeguard project-affected individuals and…
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🌊 Explore a preview of our exhibition exposing the link between environmental degradation, social injustice, and human rights violations caused by @ADB_HQ projects.
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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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