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How aligned interests between civil society and academics can generate powerful evidence for advocacy

Bancos de Desarrollo y la Brecha de Transparencia: Un Llamado a la Rendición de Cuentas

Climate justice or corporate capture: How development banks continue to fuel intertwined crises of debt and climate

Early Warning System Alerts (2025-2)

From Fossil Fuels to False Solutions: Why ADB’s Energy Investments Must Shift Towards A Just Community-Centred Transition

Development Banks’ Factory Farm Investments Harm the Climate and Local Communities

Early Warning System Alerts 1-2025

Development Banks and the Transparency Gap: A Call for Accountability

Communities affected by the Mpatamanga Hydropower Project fear for their future

Closed Doors, Open Funds: The Accountability Crisis in Central Asia’s Development Projects

¿Una Transición Energética Justa? Lecciones Emergentes de América Latina y el Caribe

A Just Energy Transition? Emerging Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean

From Awareness to Action: How Education Inspires Activism in Central Asia

IFC Withraws from Proposed WTE Investment in Gujarat, India

IFC Withraws from Proposed WTE Investment in Gujarat, India

The World Bank Must Stop Ploughing Funds into Factory Farming

The Magar Indigenous Community Advocates for Nepal’s First Land for Land Compensation

Press Release: $114 billion has been awarded to investors in secret corporate courts, new data reveals

Independent Review Exposes Flaws in Land Acquisition Process for the Wadelai Irrigation Scheme Project in Uganda

LAC: Amazônia sob análise: tendências de investimentos e violações

LAC: UM PANORAMA DAS AMEAÇAS À AMAZÔNIA CRISE CLIMÁTICA, CONTEXTO POLÍTICO E PROJETOS FINANCIADOS POR IFIS

Justice delayed is justice denied: longstanding struggle for land rights by rights holders in Tamil Nadu, India

Tracking Development Banks’ COVID-19 Relief: At Three and a Half Years and Beyond

Brasil: Protocolo de Consulta Livre, Prévia e Informada

Haiti: community-led research in rural communities

Haïti: à la recherche communautaire dans les communautés rurales d’Haïti

Global: Feeding destruction through animal agriculture

Nepal: What will our children get? Communities in Tanahu assert their right to land for land compensation and meaningful consultations

Global: Community-Led Approaches for a Just Transition

South Caucasus and Central Asia: Linking and learning with human and environmental rights activists

LAC: A Meeting of Struggles: Early Warning System Co-administrators and Community Organizers Gather in Brazil

Global: Missing receipts – Where did international financial institutions’ COVID-19 funding go?

Uganda: After attacks, a community unites to fight for their land

Brasil: Os “donos” dos ventos: como a instalação de parques eólicos no sertão nordestino impacta comunidades tradicionais

Global: EWS / Oxfam Expose Financial Intermediary subproject data exposed for the first time

Report: Community-led Response to the Mpatamanga Hydropower Project in Malawi

Malawi: Infographic – Survey Results for the Community-led Response to the Mpatamanga Hydropower Project (English)

Malawi: Infographic -Survey Results for the Community-led Response to the Mpatamanga Hydropower Project in Malawi (Chichewa)

The African Development Bank Must Strengthen its Information Disclosure Practices and Policies

LAC: El manifiesto de la red de organizaciones co-administradoras del SAT para América Latina y el Caribe sobre el litio

A Guide to Tracking COVID-19 Relief Financing

Brazil: New Report on COVID-19 Era Financing

LAC: La Energía de nuestra red y los peligros del litio

Brasil: Investimentos de Instituições Financeiras Internacionais em 2020: houve auxílio para o combate à pandemia da Covid-19?

Kenya: After forcing company to stop a project, communities negotiate path forward

Webinario: Como o Sistema de Alerta Prévio pode ser usado

Jamaica: New Report on COVID-19 Era Financing

Press Release: Over 50 Groups Express Concerns over Access to Information Review Process at the African Development Bank

Global: FMO, don’t shirk your responsibilities to the ultimate beneficiaries of your projects — local communities.

Press Release: Transparency at development bank FMO is seriously lacking

Tracking COVID-19 Financing — A Civil Society Perspective

Plan and Design the Project with Us: Advice from Sri Lanka’s Northern Province Fisherfolk

Webinar: The Early Warning System in Latin America and the Caribbean

Closed, Unapproachable and Opaque — How the New Development Bank Drafted its Access to Information Policy

The State of Hydropower Projects Today

A Step Forward for Communities’ Rights to Access Information

Will the EBRD Make a Better Offer on Public Information Disclosure and Engagement?

We Need Prior, Informed Consent! Listen to Community Voices

“De maneira prévia!”: A necessidade de ouvir as vozes comunitárias adequadamente

Guardianes del Mar: Cómo Pescadorxs Chilenxs Nos Intentan Proteger del Sacrifício Ambiental y Social

Information delayed is information denied — Fisherfolk Communities Investigate Impacts of Harbor Project

Earlier access to information will make development better: Here’s why

Kenya: Communities Demand Better Engagement on Geothermal Power Plant Project

Development in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Open for Business, Closed to Civil Society

In Practice : Information Disclosure at IDB Invest

We need to be consulted! Examining IDB Invest’s Proposed Access to Information Policy

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Fisherfolk Communities in Northern Sri Lanka Organize to Protect Livelihoods

Webinar on documenting human rights violations

Piecing Together Regional Mega Projects and Master Plans

Leadership by Local Communities in Nepal Paves Path for Development

Comunidades afectadas por represa Hidroituango en Colombia presentan queja ante el BID

IAP e BHRRC realizam webinário sobre violações de direitos humanos

Why Development Institutions Should Recognize the Right to Know Day

Why Development Institutions Should Recognize the Right to Know Day

Open, Transparent and Inclusive: EWS at CSPF 2018

Trabalhando por desenvolvimento real no Fórum Social Mundial de 2018

The Banks May be Gone but Communities Still Pay the Price

IDB Considers Multimillion Dollar Loan Across Mexico-Guatemala Border

Nepali villagers make voices heard on Tanahu hydropower project

Recognize the Right to Know Day

Las instituciones de desarrollo deberían reconocer el día del derecho a saber

Incluyan a las comunidades en las decisiones que les afectan!

Include communities in the decisions affecting them!

IDB – Invest

The Right to Information in Development

Ongoing Trends in Hydropower

The State of Hydropower Projects Today

Access to Information in Development

Survey on Access to Information in Development

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