civil society
Let the people decide
did you know?
Each International Financial Institution has different environmental and social policies and complaints procedures.
International financial institutions should be completely open , democratic and transparent. All lending for development projects should be subject to strict and adequate environmental and social policies.
- Civil society should have control over international financial institutions.
- Communities should have the right to say "no" to projects and programmes that do not benefit them.
Complaint and accountability mechanisms, like inspection panels , could help.
ifis are ignoring their own environmental safeguards
Some IFIs have developed environmental safeguards.
These policies may look impressive on paper but they are not always implemented in practice.
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Even where environmental and social policies exist, there is no guarantee that they are automatically complied with.
the policies are meaningless
Policies are meaningless without active efforts to enforce them.
People are still being moved away en masse from their homelands without proper consultation or compensation.
Their forests are still being clear-cut even when logging moratoria should be in place. This can and should be resisted.
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find out more
Find out about previous complaints made to the World Bank Inspection Panel
Keep an eye on IFIs : find out about the different complaint mechanisms and safeguard policies of the different IFIs
