Comments on the draft EBRD Agribusiness Sector Strategy
Publication | 12 September, 2018These comments focus on the sustainability of EBRD investments, the need for better governance in the sector (both corporate and institutional), on issues that the draft Strategy is missing and needs to include or define better. While the draft inclu
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Comments on the EBRD’s draft Country Strategy for Uzbekistan
Publication | 22 August, 2018We call on the EBRD to outline in the Uzbekistan Country Strategy a new strategic approach or a comprehensive plan for supporting Uzbekistan’s ambitious reform path in the areas of Good governance and protection of rights and freedoms of citizens. The
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5 benefits of engaging in a facilitated dialogue process: the case of Myronivsky Hliboproduct
Blog entry | 10 August, 2018When both parties come to the table ready to participate in a meaningful way, a dispute resolution can serve as a valuable opportunity for companies, as well as the communities impacted by its operations.
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The European Parliament resolution urges European financial institution to respect indigenous peoples rights
Blog entry | 9 August, 2018Celebrate the rights of those 5 per cent who hold 80 per cent of the planet’s biodiversity. Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
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Devastating floods are the latest warning sign about controversial Nenskra hydropower project
Blog entry | 31 July, 2018From the outside, this tragedy might seem like a natural disaster, a force majeure. But one cannot ignore the human factors at play.
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Environmental problems of Shuakhevi Hydro Power Plant, Adjara, Georgia
Publication | 23 July, 2018The 184 MW Shuakhevi Hydro Power Plant is under construction on the Adjaristsqali river and two of its main tributaries in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Georgia. The design envisages it as a run-of-the-river plant with capacity of diurnal storage
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Pipeline mired in controversy gets half a billion euros from European development bank
Press release | 4 July, 2018Brussels, London, Rome, Prague – Today the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a loan of EUR 500 million for the multi-billion euro Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) [1], in spite of the project failing to conform to the bank’s own policies and the fervent local resistance following the 878-kilometre pipeline where it crosses land in Greece and Albania before arriving onshore in Italy.
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How the EBRD can seize the day in sustainable development
Blog entry | 28 June, 2018To truly invest in changing lives and preventing human rights violations, the EBRD must ensure that its independent accountability office can conduct rigorous investigations into allegations of abuse in financed projects – and hold itself accountable.
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Over 120,000 petition development banks to Save the Blue Heart of Europe and drop destructive hydropower in the Balkans
Press release | 21 June, 2018London, Prague, Radolfzell, Vienna – Representatives from the Save the Blue Heart of Europe campaign to save Europe’s last remaining wild rivers [1] handed in a petition endorsed globally by more than 120,000 people, calling on international development banks to rein in financial support for hydropower projects in the Balkans.
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Belgrade waste public-private partnership (PPP)
Publication | 19 June, 2018The Vinča waste PPP contract between the City of Belgrade and the Suez-Itochu consortium raises numerous issues including the terms of the contract, the waste management model envisaged, and the impacts on the Roma population living on the landfill, as
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