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General Purposes

Bank Information Center

www.bankinformationcenter.org

  • Program Environment
  • Program Area Transforming Development Finance
  • Grant Amount $20,000
  • Grant Period January 1, 2009–December 31, 2010
  • Location Washington, DC, United States
  • Geographic Focus World

About this grant

Multilateral development banks, and particularly the World Bank, play a central role in formulating development policy and are the dominant environmental and social standard setters in international finance and investment. The Bank Information Center supports developing country organizations in their efforts to influence the social and environmental impacts of multilateral development bank-financed projects and policies, with a particular focus on accountability and transparency at the World Bank Group. This grant increase will enable the grantee to convene a series of events at the World Bank annual meeting in Istanbul, Turkey at which nongovernmental organizations will press for improved transparency and environmental and social safeguards for World Bank lending.