Notes from the virtual Spring 2021 Civil Society Policy Forum on 25 March 2021.

Notes from the virtual Spring 2021 Civil Society Policy Forum on 25 March 2021.
World Bank’s Covid-19 vaccination programme contributes to global response but fails to ensure free access to vaccines and healthcare during the pandemic.
Renewed calls for a substantial SDR allocation raise urgency of reforming the inequitable global reserve ‘non-system’.
Thousands of Indian farmers protest damaging World Bank and IMF-supported reforms to agriculture laws.
World Bank commits to invest additional $5 billion in the Great Green Wall over the next five years, despite shortcomings in its existing investments in the initiative highlighted by IEG.
Latin American Indigenous Peoples call on the World Bank to safeguard their rights and ensure its programmes are based on their own proposals.
Civil society letter condemns World Bank statements as ‘weak’.
Market-led policy approaches increasingly used to deal with both climate and health emergencies are failing to protect those most vulnerable.
Alternative progressive solutions reached by democratic and inclusive multi-sectoral dialogue.
Community demands reparations from World Bank for murder of South African environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase for opposing the Tendele coal mine initially financed by IFC.