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did you know?
Each International Financial
Institution has different
environmental and social policies and
complaints procedures.
Keep an
eye on ifis
International financial institutions should
be completely
open
,
democratic and transparent. All lending for
development projects should be subject to
strict and adequate environmental and social
policies.
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Civil society should have
control
over international
financial institutions.
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Communities should have the
right
to say "no" to
projects and programmes that do not benefit
them.
Complaint and accountability mechanisms,
like
inspection panels
,
could help.
ifis are ignoring their own environmental
safeguards
Some IFIs have developed environmental
safeguards.
These policies may look impressive on
paper but they are not always implemented in
practice.
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strategic tips
for filing complaints
with international financial
institutions |
Even where environmental and social policies
exist, there is
no guarantee
that they are automatically complied with.
the policies are meaningless
Policies are meaningless without active
efforts to
enforce
them.
People are still being moved away en masse
from their homelands
without proper
consultation
or compensation.
Their forests are still being clear-cut
even when logging moratoria should be in
place. This can and should be resisted.
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Find out about
previous
complaints
made to the World Bank
Inspection Panel
Keep an eye on
IFIs
: find out about the different
complaint mechanisms and safeguard policies
of the different IFIs
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