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Inspection Panel

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...

Read more August 29, 2020 at 12:36 pm CFA

Procedures for World Bank’s new accountability mechanism lacks transparency and inclusivity

In a press release issued early last week, the World Bank has announced that the review of its independent accountability mechanism, the Inspection Panel, has been completed and that a few major reforms were...

Read more March 17, 2020 at 8:21 pm Tani Alex

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...

Read more December 21, 2018 at 11:32 am Joe Athialy

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...

Read more October 22, 2018 at 5:45 pm Maju Varghese

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...

Read more October 5, 2018 at 3:46 am CFA

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),...

Read more October 5, 2018 at 2:41 am Ankit Agrawal

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...

Read more September 30, 2018 at 4:39 pm CFA

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)...

Read more September 3, 2018 at 4:07 pm Anuradha Munshi

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...

Read more August 26, 2018 at 2:22 pm Tani Alex

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...

Read more November 12, 2017 at 4:41 pm Tani Alex

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