Update on the Forest Investment Program (FIP) from CIFs Monitor 9
Indonesia
Environment
Analysis
Clean Technology Fund (CTF)
Updates on the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) from CIFs Monitor 9
Environment
Analysis
Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)
Updates on the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) from CIFs Monitor 9
Environment
Analysis
World Bank’s climate change crusade: rhetoric or reality?
The World Bank is focussing significant time and resources into promoting itself as an agent for tackling climate change, but is still funds dirty energy through coal and gas projects, most recently in China.
Private Sector
News
Civil society letter re: the IFC and lessons learned
A letter from civil society in response to the IFC's lesson learned briefing
Finance
News
Final IDA 17 numbers shrink under scrutiny
The release of the final IDA paper in April confirmed that IDA 17 represents a 7.7 per cent decline in IDA resources. The replenishment saw a loan of $1 billion from China and less generous lending terms for IDA borrowers.
Rights
News
World Bank blamed over 1965 Indonesia massacres
Images from an Oscar-nominated documentary exploring the history of Indonesia’s Suharto government and the killing of an estimated 1 million Indonesians during the 1960s has been screened on the walls of the World Bank to pressure it to acknowledge its support for Suharto.
Infrastructure
Analysis
World Bank courts controversial coal in India and Indonesia
Despite its increasingly strong rhetoric on tackling climate change the World Bank continues to fund contentious coal projects in India and Indonesia, including rejecting the findings of its accountability mechanism.
Environment
Analysis
Forest Investment Program (FIP)
Chapter of CIFs Monitor 8 on the Forest Investment Program (FIP)
Environment
Analysis
Clean Technology Fund (CTF)
Chapter of CIFs Monitor 8 on the Clean Technology Fund (CTF)
Rights
Background
Review and update of the World Bank’s safeguard policies
Minutes from a side event with the World Bank safeguards team presenting an update on the review process during the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2013.
IFI governance
Background
Meeting president Kim’s pledge of “no dilution” for safeguards
Minutes of a civil society meeting on upward harmonisation of World Bank safeguards during the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2013.
