Notes of a meeting on matching money and expertise at the World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2014
Nigeria
IFI governance
Responding to people’s grievances by piloting an early solutions approach: Nigeria Lagos case
Notes on the Civil Society Meeting on the Inspection Panel pilot case in Lagos, Nigeria at the World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2014
Rights
Commentary
Is Inspection Panel's new pilot weakening World Bank accountability?
World Bank’s Inspection Panel's new pilot process has left some 9,000 evicted people in Nigeria without adequate remedy, allowing the Bank to avoid accountability
Social services
News
A poor diagnosis: the World Bank’s health record
World Bank health financing benefits wealthy elites not poorest according to new IEG evaluation and Oxfam analysis
Rights
News
Evicted Nigerian residents denied full investigation by World Bank’s Inspection Panel
Some 9,000 evicted residents of a Lagos community have been denied justice by the World Bank's Inspection Panel as Amnesty International says the Bank is "complicit" in the process.
Environment
Analysis
Clean Technology Fund (CTF)
Updates on the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) from CIFs Monitor 9
Social services
Analysis
Going, going, gone?
IFC accused of “McDonaldisation” of education, with investment in low-fee private schools, despite evidence of negative impacts on inequality.
Rights
News
World Bank accused of resettlement “cultural genocide”
A series of high-profile eviction cases in Kenya, Nigeria and Cambodia has exposed the World Bank’s failure to protect the human rights of communities supposed to benefit from its projects, prompting widespread international condemnation.
Accountability
Background
CSOs - Inspection Panel meeting and discussion
Q: How do you train the board? Organise orientation of new Board members, are often…
Private Sector
News
Shopping mall Shangri-La: IFC’s lending for luxury
IFC investments in luxury hotels and shopping malls highlight projects with weak development outcomes.
Rights
News
Nigeria forced evictions case before Inspection Panel
A case of forced evictions in the Nigerian city of Lagos has been submitted to the World Bank's Inspection Panel.
Infrastructure
News
Nigeria and IFC in talks on national gas pipeline
The government of Nigeria and the IFC have begun talks for the funding of a national gas pipeline network in the south of Nigeria.
