Strategic Area Leader - Cities for people
Email: fidankab AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +359 877 303 097
Fidanka joined Bankwatch in 2004 as a Balkan coordinator and became an EBRD campaign coordinator in 2010.
She holds an Environmental Science and Policy degree from the Central European University and an Environmental Law degree from Queens University, Belfast.
More from Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath
The EBRD’s draft strategy, published in the summer of 2024, shows improvements particularly in terms of good governance, inclusion, safety, affordability, accessibility of municipal and transport infrastructure and services. In our new comments, we argue that more needs to be done to decarbonise and promote circular economy principles and sustainable waste management.
At Bulgarian coal mine, a climate and human rights crisis unfolds
November 18, 2021 | Read more
People abandoned at the edge of Bulgaria’s largest coal basin expect accountability from the multilateral development bank that financed the mine expansion.
‘Needle under a blanket’ at Belgrade waste project
January 18, 2021 | Read more
Superficial cover up by the EBRD’s accountability mechanism of problems at Belgrade Solid Waste public-private partnership is followed by new request for problem solving.
In early August, Armenian protestors who had been blocking access continuously for the past two years to the controversial Amulsar gold mine were forcibly removed by the mine’s newly-hired security detail.
Informing women is the first step to empowering them
August 3, 2020 | Read more
Evidence of meaningful implementation of the Gender Action Plan for EBRD and GCF’s Green Cities Framework – not found.
