International Accountability Project (IAP)

06/10/2026

📢 Development must advance climate justice, protect human rights defenders, and put communities at the center of decisions. At the 2026 Annual Meetings of The World Bank Group-International Monetary Fund, we call on development banks to be accountable to the people affected by their investments.

During the Annual Meetings week, the team will be in Bangkok, joining communities and partners to bring this call into discussions, learning spaces, and collective action.

Here’s where you can find us:

📍 International People’s Assembly | October 12–13
We’ll share findings on the scale and structure of development bank-backed transition minerals investments and host discussions on preventive protection for community-led development with Coalition for Human Rights in Development, The Indigenous Peoples Rights International, Business and Human Rights Centre, and Peace Brigades International, and on the financing of false solutions in the circular economy and climate action with GAIA Asia Pacific, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), Centre for Financial Accountability, and Manila Anti-Incinerator Alliance.

📍 Feminist Learning Space | October 13–14
We’ll join collective learning and discussions, and speak about international financial institution accountability alongside Aksi! for gender, social and ecological justice

📍 “Critical” Minerals, Critical Risks
Together with FARN, SIRGE Coalition, Business and Human Rights Centre, Coalition for Human Rights in Development, Tallgrass Institute, Big Shift Global, and Bank Information Center, we’re co-organizing a strategy meeting on protecting the rights of defenders, Indigenous Peoples, and other affected communities in transition minerals finance and policies.

📍 Counter Docket | October 15
Together with JASS (Just Associates), Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, and ESCR-Net - International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, we’re co-organizing a people’s tribunal bringing together communities resisting extractive development.

📍 Regional Consultation with Special Procedures Mandate Holders | October 16
We’ll participate in this consultation organized by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development

Around Bangkok that week? Find us and say hello! 👋

28/09/2026

📢 access to information is essential for communities to have a say in development decisions that affect their lives.

Yet, in Croatia and Ukraine, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) disclosed information on two investments linked to agribusiness company MHP only after financing had been approved, 50 and 120 days later, respectively.

By the time communities could access this information, the decisions had already been made, leaving little opportunity to raise concerns about potential environmental and social impacts.

On the International Day for Universal Access to Information, we call on the EBRD and other development finance institutions to ensure timely and meaningful access to information before financing decisions are made.

By Alessandro Ramazzotti

23/09/2026

📢 We’re growing the movement to Stop Financing Factory Farming and our partners at Friends of the Earth U.S. are !

If you’re passionate about transforming global food systems, challenging harmful development finance, and strengthening international advocacy, check out these exciting opportunities to join Friends of the Earth and play an integral role in the Stop Financing Factory Farming ( ) Coalition.

👉 Explore the openings and apply: https://foe.bamboohr.com/careers

🔹 Coalition Secretariat & Engagement Associate
Are budgets, coordination, and keeping complex projects running smoothly your thing? This role combines coalition operations with project management, relationship-building, and outreach.

🔹 Senior Policy Advocate, Global Finance & Food Systems
For experienced advocates ready to take on the global financial institutions shaping our food systems, this role will lead policy advocacy and campaign strategy within and provide you a space to engage directly with development banks to advocate for equitable, climate-resilient, and agroecological food systems.

Share these opportunities with your networks if you know someone who would be a great fit!

Take a look at the current openings at Friends of the Earth

22/09/2026

is in town for ! 🌎

Catch up with ’s Rosario Fassina who will be in New York through September 25, 2026.

And if you’re around, join us for “Climate Reparations Mixer: Connections and Visions of the Future” on September 25, together with ESCR-Net - International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, Oxfam, La Ruta del Clima, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), and The Community Church of New York.

Come connect, exchange ideas, and imagine what climate reparations and more just futures can look like.

📍 Save your spot: uusc.org/climate-mixer

21/09/2026

On September 17, 2026, launched Bearing the Burden: The True Cost of Transition Minerals Finance alongside the Transition Minerals Finance Tracker during a webinar with SIRGE Coalition, The Indigenous Peoples Rights International, Oyu Tolgoi Watch, and FARN.

🎥 Catch up on the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxU_LGQMtR

IAP’s campaign on transition minerals brings together data analysis...

18/09/2026

📢Bearing the Burden: The true Cost of Transition Minerals Finance is out!

Read the full report: bit.ly/BearingTheBurden

The report tracks 71 transition mineral projects backed by development banks, representing nearly US$8 billion in financing.

Lithium and copper account for the largest share of this financing, which is overwhelmingly directed toward the private sector. Yet, among the development banks we reviewed, not one has adopted a justice-oriented approach to transition minerals finance.

More than half of the projects already show evidence of harm to Indigenous Peoples and other affected communities, including water and air pollution, forced displacement, and labour rights abuses. More than half of the private companies receiving financing also have prior records of environmental damage or human rights abuses.

These findings raise an urgent question: Who benefits from the energy transition, and who is being asked to bear its costs?

Special thanks for Indigenous Peoples Rights International, Resource Justice Network , OT Watch Mongolia, and Rivers & Rights for co-publishing this report with us and strengthening the call for a more just, community-led energy transition.

11/09/2026

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From 14–17 September 2026, Vaishnavi Varadarajan will be in Bangkok for the United Nations Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum. If you’re attending, here’s where you can find us 👇

👉 1. From Consultation to Participation: Centring People and the Planet in Development Governance

On 14 September, will co-organize this session with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development and other civil society organizations. We’ll explore what it really takes to move beyond consultation toward meaningful participation, where communities have a genuine say in the development decisions that affect their lives, lands, and futures. Register to join the conversation:

https://lnkd.in/eaX66Z7N

☕ 2. Learning and Practice Cafe

will also co-organize a booth at the Learning and Practice Café together with EarthRights International and Just Ground. We’ll be sharing tools, resources, and experiences on community-led development, including our work through the , , and initiatives. Make sure to stop by for an engaging conversation (and some delicious Thai and Indian snacks!)🍪🌶️✨

🌏 3. Who Holds the Power? Advancing a Rights-Based and Community-Led Just Transition Across Asia Pacific

Together with our civil society partners, will co-organize a panel exploring the impacts of large-scale renewable energy projects across Asia Pacific and the potential of community-led renewable energy initiatives to build a more just and rights-based energy transition. Scan the QR code on the orange poster below to join us!

And that’s not all! 👋

Before the Forum, we’ll also be joining the Asia Regional Gathering of Defenders in Environment, Business, and Human Rights on 12–13 September 2026. We’re especially excited to connect with fellow civil society organizations and defenders working at the intersection of environmental justice, human rights, and a just energy transition.

📍 See you in Bangkok!

07/09/2026

2 DAYS TO GO!

Join and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) on September 9 for a discussion on the Global Petrochemicals Investments Tracker. Register now: https://tinyurl.com/yd43333t

The webinar will explore where development banks' petrochemical finance is flowing, what it is funding, and what these investments mean for climate commitments, environmental and social safeguards, and communities in regions receiving significant development bank investments.

04/09/2026

and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) launched the Global Petrochemicals Investments Tracker in August 2026. The interactive tracker maps 92 petrochemical projects financed by 16 development banks, representing more than US$10 billion in investments.

Join us for the webinar “Closing the Petrochemical Loophole: Multilateral Development Banks and the Fossil Economy” to explore the Tracker, its key findings, and what they mean for communities, development banks, global climate commitments.

The 90-minute session will include a short presentation of the Tracker followed by a panel discussion with speakers from Morocco, Nigeria, Sweden, and the United States. Register now to join the conversation: https://ieefa.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JKi0MqC4TM2aLHPJ9N5Qpg?utm_campaign=32615184-South%20Asia%202026%20Webinars&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9oUzFvt5A-c7mwKDgWYy7lWF4GA-ooSE0Pv1c1UJzVRatHTfVklNgNmGvTsIr8PSmnxQY9CCO-CSwbOieKeR_rawxgkg&_hsmi=435723976&utm_content=435723976&utm_source=hs_email #/registration

04/09/2026

Monitorea los proyectos de los bancos de desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe.
Nuestro Tablero más reciente reúne información sobre 2,388 proyectos financiados o propuestos por 12 bancos de desarrollo entre 2024 y 2026. El Tablero se actualizará trimestralmente conforme se divulgue información sobre nuevos proyectos.

📑 Leer: https://bit.ly/LACTrackerSP
🔎 Explora el Tablero: bit.ly/LACTrackerES

Más que una base de datos de proyectos, el Tablero permite analizar el financiamiento para el desarrollo desde múltiples dimensiones, incluyendo:
👉 Banco de desarrollo
👉 Sector
👉 País
👉 Categoría de riesgo
👉 Monto de inversión

Esto facilita identificar patrones que pueden ser difíciles de detectar cuando se revisa la información de cada banco por separado.

Además, las personas usuarias pueden filtrar los proyectos por periodo para dar seguimiento a cómo evolucionan las carteras de los bancos de desarrollo de un trimestre a otro e identificar tendencias emergentes a lo largo del tiempo.