Gender Action

Gender Action is the only organization dedicated to promoting gender justice in all International Financial Institution investments (eg: World Bank, IMF).

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

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

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

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)

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

(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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[The Big Shift Global @bigshiftglobal]

❗🗣️"World Bank, no thanks! We don't need fossil gas!"

We are at the #WBGmeetings in Washington D.C. right now demanding the @WorldBank stops funding climate disaster and gets out of gas

#GasIsNotGreen #WorldBankWorldProblems

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

.@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 @GenderAction]

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

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

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 @GenderAction]

CSO protesters “welcome” new World Bank President Ajay Banga by impersonating him at work on his first day on the job - Friday June 2, 2023

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

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

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

https://t.co/UJVGeIk1mT

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

.@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

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

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

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

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

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

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

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

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

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

.@DavidMalpassWBG says "he's not a scientist?"

Then we’ll just have to teach him what the entire world already knows.

Join us, @glasgowactions, @billmckibben, @ClimateReality, @foe_us, @ActionAidUSA, and many more in reading the IPCC report outside @WorldBank HQ on Tuesday

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

The White House Wants a Climate Denier Out as World Bank President

https://t.co/8CUdlbidTj

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

Climate activists call for climate change-denying World Bank President to step down!

https://t.co/3f4lplkqJr

[Gender Action @GenderAction]

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

[urgewald @urgewald]

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. ⬇️