This Inside the Institutions explores the World Bank’s revised Country Partnership Framework, which aims to boost the impact of its country programmes through focus and efficiency.
Accountability
IFI governance
Analysis
Wrap-up Springs 2025: BWIs stay silent on climate crisis as tariff fallout looms
Accountability
Analysis
The Corporate Scorecard’s accountability gap is symptomatic of a broader failure on the part of the WBG to fully internalise, integrate and learn from the work of its accountability mechanisms.
Accountability
Analysis
Missing in action: accountability noticeably absent from WBG’s new Corporate Scorecard
Conditionality
Analysis
IMF proposes a grassroots communication strategy to convince the public of the need for further austerity measures as publications reveal fear that social unrest will make reforms ‘unimplementable’.
Conditionality
Analysis
Who’s afraid of the grassroots? IMF policymaking in the era of social discontent
Accountability
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World Bank’s lack of meaningful consultation leaves Chiquitano Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia with no recourse
World Bank fails in its commitment to accountability by disregarding communities’ participation all the way through project design, implementation and resulting remedy plans.
Accountability
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Another day, another IFC scandal
A Telegraph exposé unveils how a private hospital group in India which received £120 million in IFC investment since 2005 was running an illegal organ trading scheme, adding to a growing number of IFC-funded scandals.
Accountability
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UDHR and IPN anniversaries underscore urgent need for Human Rights policy at all IFIs
World Bank and IMF shareholders must use the anniversaries of the Inspection Panel and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights respectively to demand both establish human rights policies and meet their international obligation to provide remedy
IFI governance
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Civil society calls for an end to the 'gentleman's agreement' and a merit-based, open and transparent MD selection process
Civil society calls for the IMF to ensure the next MD selection process is undertaken in accordance with a merit-based, open and transparent process, underpinned by criteria involving a demonstrated commitment to international human rights, feminist principles, green and equitable development, as well as publicly available shareholder votes.
Accountability
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Demanding accountability: Response to reports of a child sexual abuse cover up at the World Bank
A joint statement from 34 global civil society organizations regarding the extremely disturbing reports of a child sexual abuse cover-up by World Bank Group officials in connection with IFC's investment in Bridge International Academies in Kenya.
IFI governance
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Banga's arrival raises concerns about deepening of World Bank's private sector bias
Banga takes office as civil society urges him to invert the Cascade and ensure the Bank’s development model is fit for purpose.
Accountability
Background
(Now closed) Call for Proposals: Campaign Materials & Templates for End Austerity Campaign
The Bretton Woods Project is looking for a designer to develop a set of templates for campaign materials for the End Austerity Campaign: https://endausterity.org/
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IFC ends investment in waste-to-energy incineration projects in Gujarat, India, following civil society campaign
While IFC’s withdrawal is welcome, civil society urges the Bank to stop funding WTE projects and move towards zero-waste solutions instead.
Accountability
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Civil society and communities achieve victory as World Bank cancels tourism project in Tanzania
World Bank confirms cancellation of controversial tourism project in Tanzania, after over 2 years of civil society campaigning.
Rights
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Communities demand justice as IFC fails to address coal financing fallout
IFC faces backlash for failing to address social and environmental harms from its financing of coal plants in the Philippines, despite proven health and environmental violations.
Finance
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FfD4 is a feminist issue
FfD4 civil society feminist workstream calls for gender and race equality, human rights and systemic change in the international financial architecture, while groups plan strategic convening in Morocco.
Accountability
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CAO report adds to concerns about IFC's compliance with its own GHG emissions obligations
CAO report substantiates civil society findings about IFC’s failure to comply with its own requirements for GHG emissions measurement, alternatives analysis, mitigation and disclosure.
Accountability
Background
Strengthening governance of development policy finance: Improving transparency, accountability, stakeholder engagement, and Paris alignment
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum on 24 October 2024 titled "Strengthening governance of development policy finance: Improving transparency, accountability, stakeholder engagement, and Paris alignment".
IFI governance
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CSOs call for mandatory and meaningful consultation at the IMF
Civil society organisations call for consultation on the design of policies that significantly impact states and citizens.
Finance
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IMF acknowledges capital controls have helped Argentine economy
IMF research acknowledges measures to restrict capital outflows introduced in 2019 contributed to Argentina meeting the performance criteria for the Fund’s Extended Fund Facility.