International Financial Institutions Resources

 

 

Social and Environmental Policies of International Financial Institutions

The following sites will provide you with the social and environmental policies of International Financial Institutions:

• World Bank *Note that these “safeguard policies” are not the only policies of the Bank that are important to addressing environmental and social concerns.  Policies related to project appraisal and supervision, and the like are also critically important, and, in fact, have been central to most claims to the Inspection Panel.
• International Finance Corporation *Note, the IFC is in the process of revising its Social and Environmental Sustainability Policy and Performance Standards.  This process should be completed by early 2011.
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Asian Development Bank
• African Development Bank
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• European Investment Bank
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation

Links and/or contact information to other organizations who monitor the impacts of multilateral development bank lending

Asia

• Coord Organisation for Rural Development, India, www.geocities.com/cord_in
• Focus on the Global South, Thailand www.focusweb.org 
• Friends of the Earth, Japan, www.foejapan.org 
• International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID), Indonesia http://infid.ngonet.be/
• Narmada Bachao Andolan, India www.narmada.org 
  

Europe

• Berne Declaration, Switzerland www.evb.ch 
• BothEnds, Netherlands www.bothends.org 
• Bretton Woods Project, UK www.brettonwoodsproject.org 
• CEE Bankwatch Network www.bankwatch.org 
• Friends of the Earth International www.foei.org
• Campaign to Reform the World Bank, Italy www.unimondo.org/cbm
• World Economy, Ecology & Development, (WEED) Germany www.weedbonn.org/welcengl.htm 
• Urgewald

Latin America/Caribbean 

• Amazon Watch, based in California,  www.amazonwatch.org 
• Instituto del Tercer Mundo, Uruguay www.item.org.uy 
• RedBancos, Latin American Network http://fp.chasque.apc.org:8081/redbancos/
• Rede Brasil, Brazil (website not ready until February 2000) 
• Rios Vivos Coalition, (based in Brazil) www.riosvivos.org.br 
• Trasparencia, Mexico www.trasparencia.org.mx
• Sobrevivencia- Friends of the Earth Paraguay
• DECOIN, Ecuador
  

United States/Canada

• The Bank Information Center, www.bicusa.org
• Center for Economic and Social Rights www.cesr.org/ 
• Environmental Defense www.edf.org 
• Essential Action/Multinationals Resource Center www.EssentialAction.org 
• 50 Years is Enough www.50years.org 
• Friends of the Earth US www.foe.org
• Halifax Initiative Coalition www.halifaxinitiative.org
• Institute for Policy Studies, Sustainable Energy & Economic Network www.seen.org
• International Accountability Project www.accountabilityproject.org
• International Campaign for Tibet www.savetibet.org
• International Human Rights Counsel http://www.ihrlaw.com/
• International Rivers Network www.irn.org 
• Interaction www.interaction.org 
• IUCN, The World Conservation Union www.iucn.org 
• National Wildlife Federation www.nwf.org 
• Oxfam America/International www.oxfamamerica.org/ 
• Pacific Environment and Resources Center www.pacificenvironment.org 
• Pesticide Action Network, North America www.panna.org 
• Probe International (Canada) www.probeinternational.org
• Rainforest Action Network www.ran.org 
• Social Justice Committee www.s-j-c.net
• Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN) www.seen.org 
• World Resources Institute www.wri.org 
• Worldwatch Institute www.worldwatch.org

Other useful sources of information

• The International NGO ECA Reform Campaign, www.eca-watch.org