Bretton Woods Project Annual Report 2025

As we begin 2026, we look back at the past year and analyse our work in 2025, the challenges we faced and the successes we achieved, always working hand in hand with our partners.

In a context of BWIs’ growing rhetorical alignment with the US administration’s priorities, skyrocketing debt and global uncertainty, in 2025 we continued to work as an independent watchdog of the World Bank and the IMF. We challenged harmful narratives and policies, and amplified perspectives from international civil society, grassroots organisations and academics worldwide.

We supported civil society advocating for transformative change, pressing for urgent reforms in the IMF’s approach to debt and ongoing reviews, and engaged with the World Bank on accountability processes, including the review of the IFC’s Sustainability and Performance Standards and the 2025 Shareholding Review, among other issues.

In 2025, our work continued to focus on four advocacy areas: Gender equality and macroeconomics, the environment, governance reform and accountability, and financialisation and human rights.