Coverage of the communiqu
Gender
Accountability
News
New gender IFI watcher network launched
US NGO Gender Action has launched a new Global Gender IFI Watcher Network, which aims to allow "large numbers of activists to collectively hold IFI investments accountable to prevent negative gender impacts and ensure positive gender outcomes".
Environment
Analysis
Climate Investment Funds Monitor 5
The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) are financing instruments designed to pilot low-carbon and climate-resilient development through the multilateral development banks (MDBs). They are comprised of two trust funds - the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF).
Accountability
Background
EIR + 10
Minutes of afternoon sessions of extractives conference, Washington DC, 23 April 2012
Conditionality
Background
A Global Shared Societies Agenda
Minutes meeting for A Global Shared Societies Agenda
Gender
News
Spring meetings 2012: communiqués coverage
Coverage of the communiqu
Gender
News
World Bank failing on reproductive health?
In an article for UK newspaper The Guardian, Elizabeth Arend of international NGO Gender Action questioned the World Bank's status as a "global leader" in reproductive health.
Gender
News
World Bank lagging on gender and disability
A recent report by the Australian NGO RESULTS International criticises the Bank for its lack of consideration of gender and disability in its education projects.
Gender
Analysis
Gender WDR
The 2012 World Development Report is a watershed moment: it is the first time that the World Bank, the world's largest and most influential development institution, has devoted its flagship publication to gender. Kate Bedford of the University of Kent argues that the report leaves the Bank failing to face up to its role in perpetuating policies that harm women, and is seriously limited in its approach to women's movements, markets, and households.
Accountability
News
Harvesting controversy
While the Bank prepares to revise its agriculture strategy, its focus on market liberalisation is criticised, its own complaints bodies issue damning reports on agriculture projects in Peru and Papua New Guinea, and critics fault its gender focus.
