The purpose of this document is to bring observations and comments made by civil society organizations to the rules of implementation of the IDB Access to Information Policy Invest.
This document aims to bring observations and comments to the draft of the new Environmental and Social Sustainability Policy of the IDB Invest. These observations are made with the objective of making visible conflicts and problematic problems in the IDB Invest.
This document aims to present the observations and comments to the draft of IDB Invest’s new Environmental and Social Sustainability Policy from a gender perspective, which is practically absent in the current draft. These observations are made with the aim of making conflicts and existing problems in the actions of IDB Invest more visible, related to the violation of rights, inequality, violence and the sexual division of labour, first and foremost.
This document provides a summary overview of what Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are, how they work in Argentina, what are the main projects with this type of contract and what is the balance that can be done on PPPs.
The article proposes an approach to financing the Silk Road and the Silk Road Initiative, trying to analyze the extent to which the recently created Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) plays as a “financial engine” of the Initiative, It represents (or not) an opportunity for the objective of greater environmental and social sustainability in the infrastructure projects carried out within the framework of the “New Green Silk Road”.
The purpose of this document is to describe the operation of the Green Climate Fund, where its financial resources, its projects, operational policies come from and how its accountability mechanism works.
This working document details the main features of the recently created Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), addressing its structure, operation and current funded projects and the role played by China in its institutionalization.
This publication seeks to disseminate the arguments and recommendations of civil society, individuals and communities impacted on the impact on the right of access to information and transparency in extractive contexts in eight countries of Latin America and the Caribbean: Nicaragua, Guatemala, Dominican Republic , Honduras, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.
On October 30, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published a communiqué inviting civil society organizations and other interested social actors of the Organization of American States (OAS) to send information on the situation. of human rights in the region. This information will be used for the preparation of chapter IV A of the annual report of the IACHR corresponding to the year 2018 that will be presented to the General Assembly of the OAS.
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Comments sent by the organizations that make up GREFI to the IDB Invest in the framework of the revision of its Policy on Access to Public Information.
As a result of several investigations carried out by the Regional Group on Financing and Infrastructure (GREFI), the need to have a better understanding of the regulatory frameworks of the main International Financial Institutions (IFIs) present in Latin America has been detected, from a financial perspective. human rights.