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Assessment of opportunities for pre-accession assistance IPA 2 in Macedonia

Briefing | 15 March, 2014 | Download PDF

92 organisations prepared and submitted this joint statement on the opportunities for financing in Macedonia from the EU pre-accession instrument. The assessment was done for all sectors included in the Country Strategy Paper for Macedonia.


Comments on Project Complaint Mechanism Draft Rules of Procedure

Policy comments | 6 March, 2014 | Download PDF

The EBRD’s Project Complaint Mechanism’s Rules of Procedure (PCM) are part of the bank’s good governance policies which are all being revised in the beginning of 2014. In addition to these comments on the PCM here, Bankwatch has prepared comments to the good governance policies (pdf) in general separately.


NGO comments on the EBRD’s Project Complaint Mechanism Draft Rules of Procedure

Policy comments | 6 March, 2014 | Download PDF

This comment letter, signed by 16 civil society organisations, focuses on the provisions that directly affect complainants’ access to the PCM. Specifically, our concerns relate to the Draft Rules of Procedure registration and eligibility criteria, and provisions regarding complainant participation at various stages of the PCM process.


Comments on the EBRD’s good governance policies drafts

Policy comments | 6 March, 2014 | Download PDF

The EBRD’s good governance policies include the Environmental and Social Policy (ESP), the Public Information Policy (PIP) and the Project Complaint Mechanism’s Rules of Procedure (PCM). Bankwatch has also submitted separate comments on the draft Rules of Procedure for the PCM.


European Structural and Investment Funds programming in Latvia – NGO assessment

Briefing | 5 March, 2014 | Download PDF

At the moment from an NGO’s point of view the Operational Programme of Latvia looks well defined and very promising in general. But the way how the OP is described at the moment is too general also for a SEA to assess the possible negative impacts on environment as well as for NGOs to consider that the implementation of OP could cause serious environmental problems, let alone the strategic direction Latvia chose to follow with support of ESI funds.