Gender Action is the only organization dedicated to promoting gender justice in all International Financial Institution investments (eg: World Bank, IMF).
New Case Study: AIIB Indonesia Mandalika Tourism Project highlights devastation to the environment, biodiversity and Indigenous women's livelihoods, propelling women into debt. Support local protesters demanding MUTIP suspension and reparations. https://t.co/9RigZpPyJb
To mark the BWIs 80th anniversary, see this critique “The Bretton Woods Institutions’ Colonial Paradigm” (https://t.co/F3GHCwUgKy) published by IBON at (https://t.co/1PffO27853)
(1/5) Today the @WorldBank launches its new guarantee platform, which aims to attract private sector investments, including for #ClimateAction.
The platform, housed under @MIGA, intends to make it simpler, faster & easier for the private sector to access guarantees.
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.@AIIB_Official spent over $44 billion in the last 7 years but has not yet accepted a single complaint to its accountability mechanism
https://t.co/60OGqweeVU
Gender Action’s interlacing gender-climate advocacy on international financial institutions is recognized in the runup to the late June 2023 Paris Climate Summit:
https://t.co/yypgf5xI1M
On World Bank President Ajay Banga’s first day at work activist CSOs holding the Bank accountable for financing climate-destroying fossil fuels hand cards demanding Banga and the Bank end support for fossil fuels to staff entering the Bank
Gender Action, Friends of the Earth & Urgewald’s
IFIs’ Rhetorical Gender & Climate Promises
assesses how much IFI policies uphold gender & climate rights & justice & calls to end IFI austerity, privatization & debt policies that stymie development
https://t.co/IITACNNZEQ
.@AfDB_Group managers - take immediate action to release community members and LSD colleague arrested for discussing your Dakar Senegal Regional Express Train (TER) project! See details in this press release https://t.co/XIrlVuqPaZ
@mfodhu@tityagb@Aly_Marie_Sagne@afdb_irm
Calls for climate-denying @WorldBank President David Malpass to step down have mounted since he repeatedly proclaims he does not understand climate science. In response civil society leaders read the UN IPCC’s scientific findings in front of the World Bank on September 27, 2022
See evidence and data showing that the World Bank continues to spend heavily on fossil fuels that wrecks our planets, health and livelihoods https://t.co/wao5O69hQp
Join our civil society demonstration calling on the World Bank to stop financing fossil fuels that wreck our planet, undermine health and livelihoods, and disproportionately harm women who primarily manage natural resources in poor borrower countries
Everyone is invited to attend a trial on the IMF and World Bank where their disastrous policy requirements and projects in the world’s poorest countries will be judged - Thursday October 13, 2022 at 10 am! #ForPeopleForPlanet
Since the @IMFNews admitted that climate change, gender and other inequalities are macro-critical, its policy advice and loan conditions have undermined achievements in each of these spheres. This #EarthDay2022 briefing advises the Fund how to do better https://t.co/cSvIlxNc87
The @WorldBank, @the_IDB & @IMFNews use public funding to attract investments in new oil development. Their finance programs exacerbate public debt & contribute to the #climatecrisis by leading countries to become even more dependent on #fossilfuels. Let's 👀 at Suriname f.e. ⬇️