Amidst new complaints on the failure of the investments of the IFC’s financial sector clients to meet the IFC performance standards, including a controversial dam in Honduras, civil society organisations have rejected the IFC’s proposed action plan as unacceptable.
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Environment
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CIFs and the private sector
Information on the private sector and the CIFs taken from each section of CIF Monitor…
Environment
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NGOs call for halt of World Bank’s climate initiatives
In July 2012 NGOs called on governments to pivot away from funding the Bank-housed Climate…
Environment
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Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)
Chapter of CIFs Monitor 8 on the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)
Environment
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Scaling up Renewable Energy Program (SREP)
Chapter of CIFs Monitor 8 on the Scaling up Renewable Energy Program (SREP)
Environment
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Forest Investment Program (FIP)
Chapter of CIFs Monitor 8 on the Forest Investment Program (FIP)
Environment
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Clean Technology Fund (CTF)
Chapter of CIFs Monitor 8 on the Clean Technology Fund (CTF)
Environment
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Climate Investment Funds Monitor 8
Latest update on the World Bank-housed Climate Investment Funds (CIF) ahead of their October meetings. Information on key trends in the Clean Technology Fund (CTF), Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR), Forest Investment Program (FIP) and Scaling up Renewable Energy Program (SREP).
IFI governance
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World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2013
Bretton Woods Project coverage of the 2013 annual meetings, including links to analysis and decoding of the communiqués as well as notes of some of the civil society and official meetings, as they become available.
IFI governance
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Annual meetings 2013: communiqués coverage
Detailed analysis of the communiqués from the 2013 World Bank and IMF annual meetings.
Environment
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CIFs Monitor: past issues
Climate Investment Funds Monitor 7 25 April 2013 This briefing, including references, can also be…
Conditionality
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IMF & Troika: a big, fat Greek divorce?
The IMF's involvement in the Troika is again being questioned due to Greek loan unsustainability and lack of consensus amongst the Troika members, while citizens continue to challenge the conditionality of the programme.
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