News & Updates

Last week, the World Bank Group’s Board of Directors overruled its own independent accountability mechanism–the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO)–and allowed the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the institution’s private sector arm, to avoid accountability for the microfinance debt crisis it has contributed to in Cambodia. In response, CAO Director General Janine Ferretti has resigned.

Inclusive Development International and over 20 civil society organizations have published recommendations to ensure that the European Investment Bank Group’s new Complaints Mechanism Policy is an effective forum for impacted communities seeking remedy.

Inclusive Development International’s new case study highlights how electric vehicle makers can strengthen their supply chain due diligence and promote human rights in the mining sector.

Inclusive Development International submitted additional comments to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) regarding its ongoing Sustainability Framework review, calling for a stronger approach to ensuring community support for high-risk projects.

Inclusive Development International joined partners and affected people to file a complaint regarding Heidelberg Materials’ plans to build a limestone mine and cement factory in the middle of Indonesia’s unique and fragile Kendeng Mountain landscape.

Inclusive Development International and several other civil society organizations have published a joint statement responding to a draft report published by a team of consultants hired to review key aspects of CAO policy.

Last year was brutal for the cause of human rights that we hold dear, but together with our community and civil society partners around the world, we were still able to deliver some of the most meaningful impacts in our organization’s history.

This week, we transferred the final payments to more than 600 families who were forcibly dispossessed to make way for the company’s sugarcane plantations in Northwestern Cambodia in 2008 and 2009.

As the World Bank Group considers integration of its independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs)—the Inspection Panel, Dispute Resolution Service and the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman—Inclusive Development International joins our civil society partners in calling on the Board to proceed with caution.

We welcome FMO, DEG and Proparco’s strengthened Independent Complaints Mechanism (ICM) as a step forward in accountability for these development finance institutions.