Philippine Communities Demand World Bank reinvest $39 Million of Toxic Returns in Remedy for Affected People
The World Bank’s private sector arm pocketed millions from an equity investment in a Philippine bank, while spending nothing on remedy for the harm caused by 10 new coal-fired power plants it financed. MANILA, 7 October 2026 — On the eve of the World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Bangkok, a new analysis reveals the […]
Joint Letter Calling on the Board of the World Bank Group to Support Stronger Environmental and Social Safeguards for IFC and MIGA Projects
Dear Executive Director, Four principles to guide the IFC/MIGA Sustainability Framework review We are writing to you on behalf of 116 civil society organizations (CSOs) that have been engaging IFC and MIGA, since 2024, on the review of their Sustainability Framework (SF). As IFC and MIGA prepare to provide you with the first draft of […]
Joint Letter to IAMnet Regarding the World Bank Board’s Invalidation of CAO Investigation into IFC Microfinance Investments
Dear IAMnet, The recent decision by the World Bank Group Board of Directors to invalidate the IFC Compliance Advisor Ombudsman’s (CAO) investigation of IFC’s microfinance investments in Cambodia is unprecedented. As a result of the Board’s actions, CAO Director General Janine Ferretti resigned. Not only does the Board’s decision undermine trust in the World Bank […]
World Bank Board Denies Recourse to Millions of Victims of Predatory Lending, Sets a Dangerous Accountability Precedent
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 […]
The IFC Should Require its Clients to Demonstrate Community Support for all High-Risk Projects
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. Building on recommendations we jointly submitted earlier this year, alongside more than 30 other civil society organizations, our latest submission urges the IFC to incorporate a new client-focused Broad Sustainability Support requirement in the […]
Submission on Reforming IFC Performance Standards on Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is in the process of updating its Sustainability Framework, including its Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability, a set of requirements for how IFC clients should avoid, mitigate and manage environmental and social risk in their projects. The IFC Performance Standards not only influence how the IFC and its […]
Statement by Civil Society and Community Organizations on the Adoption of the First Remedy Framework at the World Bank Group
On April 3, responding to intense sustained advocacy efforts by project-affected communities and civil society organizations, the respective Boards of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the private sector arms of the World Bank Group, approved their long-awaited Interim Remedial Action Framework (RAF) which has now been published. The […]
BREAKING: World Bank Group guilty of coal cash cover-up despite climate commitments
(MANILA, Philippines – January 21, 2025) – Communities and rights organizations involved in an ongoing complaint against the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, accuse the multilateral development bank of covering up the harms caused by its support for the construction of 10 coal-fired power plants in the Philippines. This follows […]
Joint Statement on Bridge 4 Management Action Plan Implementation Expressing Civil Society and Survivor Concerns
Between 2013 and 2022, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) invested $13.5 million in Bridge International Academies, a for-profit school chain in Kenya, to support affordable education for low-income children. In 2020, allegations of child sexual abuse within Bridge schools surfaced and the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) initiated an investigation, and published its report in early […]
AngloGold Ashanti accepte un règlement financier avec la communauté « Area One » déplacée par sa mine en Guinée
Plus de 360 familles qui ont été déplacées de force pour permettre l’expansion de la mine d’AngloGold Ashanti à Siguiri, en Guinée, seront indemnisées par l’entreprise. Cet accord est l’aboutissement d’un processus de médiation de six ans sous les auspices du bureau du conseiller médiateur du Groupe de la Banque mondiale.