


Energy Matters | September 2024
Centre for Financial Accountability joined the Global Week of Action for Climate Finance and a Fossil-Free Future along with our partners. This campaign was run from September 13-20. We used the week to highlight...

Delhi-NCR civil society organizations, communities, and citizens urge the government to scrap the proposed expansion of toxic waste-to-energy incinerator projects in the National Capital Region
The deteriorating air quality and its health hazards across the world has raised the concerns around people’s right to breathe clean air. Delhi-NCR, particularly in the winter months, has in fact emerged as a...

Indian Civil Society Demands a new democratic financial system on World Bank/IMF’s 80th Anniversary
The Bretton Woods institutions – the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)- have completed 80 years of existence and operations. As people of the global south, who continue to bear the brunt of...

Indian Civil Society Groups Demand Shutdown of World Bank and IMF on Their 80th Anniversary
Press Release 23.10.2024 | New Delhi: Close to 200 individuals and civil society groups, representing a wide range of social movements, campaigns, and grassroots organisations and campaigns in a statement have called for the creation...

Statement to the multilateral development banks: Criteria for public investments in 100% renewable energy for climate, for people, for the planet.
In response to the urgent need for global climate action, the COP28 climate negotiations set a target to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, demanding a significant transfer of public finance towards the...

Announcing Smitu Kothari Fellows – 2024
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is happy to announce recipients of the 7th Smitu Kothari Fellowship for young writers. The 6 recipients for 2024 come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and hail from different...

FCRA – Fighting Crackdown on Rights & Activists
It’s been three months since our Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license renewal was denied. Then, we said there must be life beyond FCRA. Looking back at what we managed to do during these...

Interrogating the World Bank @ 80 | Essay Competition
The Centre for Financial Accountability, a New Delhi-based organisation working to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India, invites students and researchers to participate in an essay competition on the topic of Interrogating the...

100 Days of Economy & Finance: More of the same. But also forced reversals on some fronts
A hundred days isn’t really enough to evaluate the policies of a regime pertaining to finance and economy, but it is enough so far as to get the drift. And an overview of the...

Energy Matters | August 2024
It is concerning to know that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is proposing to fund 4 waste to energy plants in Gujarat. The investment of about USD 40 million to collectively burn 3,750 tons...

Centre for Financial Accountability Launches a New Microsite dedicated to its Plastics Fuel Infertility Campaign
Press Note 12 September 2024, Delhi: Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) launched an exclusive microsite dedicated to its ‘Plastics Fuel Infertility’ campaign (PFIC), on 28th August 2024 through an online event. The Campaign aims...

7th Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2024 Announcement
The Centre for Financial Accountability, a New Delhi-based organisation working to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India, invites applications for the Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2024. Started in 2018, the Fellowship encourages young writers...

स्मितु कोठारी फ़ेलोशिप 2024
सेंटर फॉर फाइनेंशियल अकॉउंटेबिलिटी दिल्ली में स्थित एक संस्था है, जो भारत में वित्तीय जवाबदेही को मज़बूत करने और इसे बेहतर करने के लिये काम करती है। सेंटर फॉर फाइनेंशियल अकॉउंटेबिलिटी स्मितु कोठारी फ़ेलोशिप...

The OPS, NPS, UPS Pension Debate
CFA Explainers The Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) launched by the government as its compromise formula is being celebrated by the godi media as the “best of both worlds”, i.e. the Old Pension Scheme (OPS)...