A report by NGOs in Chad, Cameroon and the US finds that the World Bank’s Implementation Completion Report (ICR) for the Chad-Cameroon pipeline is seriously at odds with the findings of official project monitors.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Conditionality
Background
IMF macroeconomic policies and the impacts on education budgets and teacher wages
IMF civil society dialogue, spring meetings 2007 (14 April 2007)
Conditionality
Background
IEO Evaluation of the IMF and Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa
Civil society dialogue, spring meetings 2007 (12 April 2007) on the IEO Evaluation of the IMF and Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa
Conditionality
Background
Sub-Saharan Africa: Outlook and Challenges
Sub-Saharan Africa: Outlook and Challenges; IMF-civil society dialogue, 13 April 2007
Rights
Background
Chad-Cameroon pipeline: implementation, challenges and lessons learned
Minutes of meeting on the Chad-Cameroon pipeline
Environment
Background
The DRC's natural resources: a roundtable discussion on forestry, mining and the role of donor insti
Minutes of meeting
Land
News
Parliamentarians on World Bank
The seventh annual conference of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank was held in Cape Town in March.
Environment
News
Zambian copper boom fails to alleviate poverty
Despite the boom in the global copper price, communities on the copper belt in Zambia have not seen the development gains they were promised and are now expressing frustration through strikes, protests and the ballot box.
Environment
News
Chad-Cam oil spill
In January, an off-shore oil spill from the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline occurred near the Cameroonian town of Kribi. The slow response time and allegations that the public was not properly informed raise critical questions about the safeguards that exist to cope with a larger accident.
Infrastructure
News
Bujagali dam unlikely to benefit ordinary Ugandans
The World Bank is so keen to promote the Bujagali II hydropower project as the solution to Uganda’s energy problems that it has set up a special website for it. Local and international groups who have been lobbying for a full and fair review of Uganda's energy options point out that Bujagali is unlikely to meet the needs of the 95 per cent of Ugandans who live far from the national grid and have never benefited from modern energy services.
Conditionality
News
Evaluation finds that IMF misleads the public about its role in Africa
A report released by the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF criticises the role of the IMF in managing aid inflows to Sub-Saharan Africa, but fails to address more fundamental questions about the Fund’s role in low-income countries.
Environment
News
Congo: mining, conflict and complicity
A confidential World Bank memo dated September 2005 finds that three of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s biggest mining contracts were approved with “a complete lack of transparency”.
