highlights of the meeting
Accountability
Accountability
Background
Reform agenda in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq
Highlights of seminar: the reform agenda in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq
IFI governance
News
European CSO meeting with European executive directors to the World Bank
Civil society representatives from over twelve European countries, as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a parliamentarian from Malawi, met with World Bank executive directors from the European region in what has become a staple event in the annual meetings diary.
Accountability
Background
CSO discussion with IFC/MIGA Compliance Advisor Ombudsman
Present: Meg Taylor, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman; Amar Inamdar, Senior specialist; Kate Kapiski; and other CAO…
IFI governance
News
WB parliamentary network meeting
The sixth annual conference of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank will be held 21 - 23 October in Helsinki, Finland.
Accountability
News
Haiti - “year of progress” or whitewash?
A letter from Haitian solidarity NGOs, faith groups and academics was sent to president Wolfowitz in August to protest the Bank's mis-portrayal of the situation in the country.
Knowledge
News
UK cuts through World Bank spin on conditionality
The business-as-usual findings emerging from a Bank review of conditionality released late July have been challenged by the British government and are contradicted by the findings of a study by Irish NGO Debt and Development Coalition.
Accountability
Commentary
The World Bank, the apartheid wall and the ghettoisation of Palestine
Comment by Jamal Juma, campaign coordinator of the Palestinian anti-apartheid wall campaign: StoptheWall.
Accountability
News
Wolfowitz appoints accountability guru
Bank president Paul Wolfowitz initiated an external review of Bank systems of transparency, accountability, ethics and integrity at the end of July.
Accountability
News
Parliamentarians return to Washington, progress in Malawi
Elected representatives from Indonesia, Ghana, Malawi and Mexico will be travelling to Washington for the annual meetings to press the points raised by the International Parliamentarians' Petition.
