Programme Schedule
Schedule Session Briefs
Concept Note
Conference on Infrastructure Finance September 4-5, 2019, NCCI, Nagpur The conference on Infrastructure Finance in Nagpur looks to discusses various aspects related to infrastructure development in India which includes not only financial aspects but...
Organisers
Centre for Financial Accountability CFA engages in critical analysis, monitoring and critique of the role of financial institutions ā national and international, and their impact on development, human rights and the environment, amongst other...
Comments from India, Myanmar & Philippines on the Report
& Recommendations from the External Review of IFC/MIGA E&S Accountability, including CAOās Role & Effectiveness We welcome the opportunity to comment on the report of the external review team. At the outset, the recommendations...
Comments by Indian Groups on Recommendations
of External Review of IFC/MIGA E&S Accountability, including CAOās Role and Effectiveness After 20 years of its existence, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) and International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) social and environmental accountability review has...
“Ultimately the rubber will meet the Road”
Social activists express hope for the future in webinar series on āReimagining the Futureā Press Release | Sept 15, 2020 āThe lockdown worked like a chemical experiment where hidden injustices were brought to the...
Draft power bill promotes privatisation, ‘impedes’ social, environmental safeguards
In an appeal to the chairperson, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy, and its members, 90 civil society group have sought cancellation of the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, proposed by the...
CSO Comments on Operationalizing Reforms to the Inspection Panel, including the creation of a new Accountability Mechanism
The process of the World Bank reforming the Inspection Panel (IPN) to adapt it to the changing environment, the newly adopted Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) started in 2017. The World Bank’s Committee on...
CSO Space during the 5th Annual Meeting
Civil society groups from across the globe wrote to the President of AIIB JinĀ Liqun raised concerns during the global pandemic and demanded accountability and transparency from AIIB during this pandemic. With the government’s in...
Tata Mundra: Case against IFC dismissed in the lower court. Will move appeal soon
On August 24 evening, a federal court ruled that the World Bank Group cannot be sued for any damage caused by its lendingādespite last yearās Supreme Court ruling in the same case that these...
Janta Parliament: Session 8
Peoples Parliament: Economy was unwell even before the pandemic, needs new thinking to recover Renowned economists, entrepreneurs, politicians and others come together to throw light on various facets of the current state of the...
SOLIDARITY SERIES; Conversations during Lockdown & Beyond
Covid-19 brought a 21 day country wide lockdown from the midnight of March 24th 2020 and this caught the entire country completely unaware and unprepared. Chaos and panic buying kept a few occupied while...
Snippets from the world of Indian economy and banking
State-owned banks need Rs 2 trillion in capital over next two years: Moody’s Public sector banks (PSBs), which have already had weak capital buffers, will need at least $25 billion in funding from external...
A weak Inspection Panel will render the last institutional mechanism for communities to hold the World Bank accountable, ineffective.
The process of the World Bank reforming the Inspection Panel (IPN) to adapt it to the changing environment, the newly adopted Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) started in 2017 but, the changes that they...
Farmers covered under PMFBY in Gujarat decreasing since 2016
There has been a steady decrease in the number of farmers in the state who are covered under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yoja or the crop insurance scheme. According to the agri census...
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