EBRD urged to improve biodiversity safeguards, rule out offsetting
June 24, 2024
Prague-based CEE Bankwatch released recommendations to strengthen safeguards on nature under the bank’s Environmental and Social Policy ( …
ADB faces some heat at Tbilisi meeting over its development policies
May 6, 2024
Non-profit experts contend that lax standards undermine the bank’s goals.
NGO Forum network and allies demand accountability from the Asian Development Bank amid Georgia’s civic space crisis
May 4, 2024
Forum IC Chair Hasan Mehedi presents to ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa a powerful watercolor painting depicting women mourning the death …
EBRD Annual Meeting 2024
April 17, 2024
EBRD Annual Meeting 2024 Yerevan, Armenia Between 14 and 16 May 2024, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will hold its annual meeting in Yerevan, Armenia. Like every year, Bankwatch and its civil society partners will raise iss
EBRD Annual Meeting 2023
April 25, 2023
EBRD Annual Meeting 2023 This year, human rights violations, shrinking civic space and marginalisation of communities in Central Asia will be high on our agenda. We’ll be holding the EBRD accountable and advocating for genuine public participation and
EBRD Annual Meeting 2022
April 26, 2022
EBRD Annual Meeting 2022 This year, the consequences of the war in Ukraine and support for alternatives to gas will be high on our agenda. We’re also helping community advocates affected by EBRD projects to share their stories. Subscribe for updates
18 CSOs to EIB Board: Recommendations to improve civil society engagement
March 8, 2022
Eighteen civil society organisations, including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, have shared recommendations to improve CSO …
18 CSOs to EIB Board: Recommendations to improve civil society engagement
March 8, 2022
Eighteen civil society organisations, including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, have shared recommendations to improve CSO …
EIB finances sustainable transport, renewable energy
February 4, 2022
The European Investment Bank (EIB) – the financial arm of the EU – approved on February 2 plans to further strengthen the EIB Group’s …
EIB needs better grip on cash it hands out, groups say
January 31, 2022
Middlemen need closer scrutiny, as does human rights due diligence, critics say