Strengthening New Development Bank Safeguards
Pontifical Catholic University Rio de Janeiro
- Program Environment
- Program Area Transforming Development Finance
- Grant Amount $200,000
- Grant Period February 1, 2016–January 31, 2018
- Location Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Geographic Focus World
About this grant
The BRICS Policy Center is a think tank dedicated to studying the structural shift occurring in international development finance as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa emerge as prominent global actors. Administered by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, the BRICS Policy Center seeks to establish a research program to cultivate international expertise and dialogue on social and environmental safeguards for development finance, with emphasis on the role of new development finance institutions. Project activities will include publishing four regular newsletters and up to 40 policy briefs.