Key concerns regarding the disclosure of project documentation and potential impacts of the Western High Speed Diameter road construction project
June 28, 2007
As presented to the EBRD by the Assessment Centre ECOM – St Petersburg Society of Naturalists (ECOM)
Letter to the UK Export Credit Guarantee Department providing an updated analysis and continued opposition to financing for Sakhalin II
June 27, 2007
Independent Recourse Mechanism: Three years on the questions remain and who is it for the EBRD or those affected by EBRD projects?
June 21, 2007
Four years since the approval of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRM) policy, Bankwatch assesses how this compliance mechanism is functioning.
Letter to President Lemierre following the NGO meeting during the 2007 EBRD Annual Meeting
June 21, 2007
Jean Lemierre President European Bank for Reconstruction and Development One Exchange Square London EC2A 2JN United Kingdom RE: Follow-up to NGO meeting at the 2007 EBRD AGM Dear President Lemierre, Once again this year NGOs and EBRD staff, directors and you yourself have had fruitful discussions at the annual meeting. Our interactions in Kazan featured a fair amount of sweat, but no blood or tears. For this we are grateful to all concerned and in particular to the EBRD NGO Relations team and the Environmental department.
IFI Transparency and the Aarhus Convention
June 18, 2007
Members of the Global Transparency Initiative (GTI) prepared this paper to examine implementation of the Transparency Charter for International Financial Institutions from the perspective of the Aarhus Convention.
Western high speed diameter non-technical project summary
June 13, 2007
Karaganda EcoMuseum presentation on the Mittal Steel health and safety project
June 11, 2007
Position statement of Kazakh and Kyrgyz NGOs on a potential EBRD-financed road between Uzunagash and Balykchi
June 11, 2007
The Khudoni dam: a necessary solution to the Georgian energy crisis?
June 7, 2007
This report questions whether the solution for the troubled Georgian energy sector is the Khudoni Dam, a project which has already received World Bank grants for feasibility studies. The report also highlights the likely severe negative impacts of the dam construction on people in Georgia.
EIBs transparency performance: rules and day-to-day practice in access to information
June 5, 2007
This report analyses the EIB’s transparency performance in the policy making process and the implementaion of rules on access to information. While revealing that the EIB is able to deliver a participatory process in the formulation of the Public Disclosure Policy (PDP), at the same time the report sheds new light on the EIB’s incompliance with European Community rules on access to information as well as missing obligations towards the Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters.
