The Davids and the World Bank!
“There was no example to follow on September 22, 1993, when the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a resolution establishing the Inspection Panel. Over the next 25 years, the Panel forged a legacy...
Nothing ‘GREAT’ about AIIB’s Sustainable Cities Strategy
The AIIBs vision must comprise multi-dimensional aspects, including social infrastructure like health and education. It should focus on people, their involvement and fundamental rights in the city. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has...
Symposium on India’s Engagements and Experiences with Accountability Mechanisms of MDBs: A Report
This year, the Inspection Panel, the accountability mechanism of the World Bank, is completing 25 years. The World Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the...
CSOs Approach World Bank to Strengthen the Inspection Panel
October 5, 2018, New Delhi: Medha Patkar, Bharat Patel, Nityanand Jayaraman and other members of the CSOs across India, have criticised the Working Group of the World Bank Board’s Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE),...
CSOs Ask World Bank to Strengthen the Inspection Panel
Submission to the Inspection Panel Working Group We are happy to note the Working Group of the World Bank Board’s Committee on Development Effectiveness is reviewing the Inspection Panel’s toolkit to determine whether it...
Case Study: India’s Experience with the IAMs
25 years of Inspection Panel has a special significance for India, having played a key role in its formation. As in the case of all safeguard and other policies, the independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs)...
25 Years of Independent Accountability Mechanisms
This year, the Inspection Panel, the accountability mechanism of the World Bank, is completing 25 years. The World Bank’s failure to comply with its operating policies was seen by the entire world in the...
World Bank Reviewing Inspection Panel’s Mandate
A recent article on the much-acclaimed accountability mechanism of World Bank, the Inspection Panel (IP), indicates that all is not well with it and it could get its wings clipped. The discussion on the...