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OFFICIAL idb DOCUMENTS
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Status of IDB Reforms: February 2010 (PDF, 2,839KB)
CIVIL SOCIETY ANALYSIS
Letters From Civil Society to the IDB
Letters from The idb to civil society
Meeting Notes
Global Capital Increase (GCI-9)
A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: IDB Rush To Increase Capital Fails G-20 Stress Test, BIC GCI-9 Concept Note, 10.1.09
IDB Begins Consultation on Ninth Capital Increase (9.8.09)
IDB Ignores Substance of Civil Society GCI Proposal (7.20.09)
Civil society organizations challenge IDB commitments to development results and sustainability: Achievement - more than effort - is needed to qualify for a 9th capital increase (6.30.09)
IDB financial losses and glaring lack of accountability invalidate replenishment request: "Stress Tests" in store for struggling MDB (3.22.09)
IDB GCI consultation at early crossroads (Nov. 5, 2009)
GAP Report Identifies Racial Inequality in IDB Projects and Employment (10.10.2009)
IDB Office of Evaluation and Supervision (OVE), Evaluation findings regarding IDB-8 guidance and implications for future Capital Increase Agreements RE-354 (7.1.2009)
OVE Evaluation of New Lending Framework (2005-2008) RE-342 (9.30.2008)
OVE Results Framework for the Realignment OVE views RE-329 (6.1.2007)
Accountability and Participation in the Design of World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank Projects: Starting Down the Road from Rhetoric to Action (PDF, 812KB)
Global crisis is good news for IFIs in Latin America 1/9/2009 (PDF, 2,706KB)
IDB record $2 bn losses force replenishment request (2.12.09)
IIRSA
See BICECA Monthly Newsletter, IIRSA Case Studies and Project Campaign Resources
IDB OVE Evaluation of IDB Action in the Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) RE 338 (4.1.08)
Anexo 1: IIRSA y el Proceso de Integración en América del Sur, Oct. 2007 10/1/2007 (PDF, 371KB)
Policy and Evaluation Committee - Management's comments to OVE's report "Evaluation of IDB Action in the Initiative for Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA) 5/8/2008 (PDF, 597KB)
BIC signs letter congratulating IDB on sustainable transportation project (12.22.09)
IDB rejects CSO concerns over IIRSA Corridor in Peru (Nov. 2009)
IIRSA: Development for business, an attack on lives - video was presented to the Inter-American Comission on Human Rights (11.13.09)
IDB & IIRSA: Continuity in Question: Exchange between civil society and IDB reflects uncertainty about IIRSA future (7.20.09)
20 Civil Society Organizations and networks call on IDB to withdraw from IIRSA (7.2.09)
IIRSA forum of strategic reflection - chronicle of a death foretold (7.2.09)
IDB Civil Society Workshop on SEAs - Summary Report (12.5.2008)
Directors of IIRSA reject petition for participation of civil society at 2009 CDE Meeting (9.21.08)
IDB rejects civil society dialogue: dismisses a proposal for a joint seminar on Amazon infrastructure and sustainability planning mechanisms at upcoming civil society meeting in Montevideo (9.2.08)
IDB response to letter on SEA Workshop Proposal 9/8/2008 (PDF, 48KB)
IIRSA CCT meeting on infrastructure and the Amazon: IIRSA's future in doubt (9.29.08)
.Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (ICIM)
Organizaciones indígenas y de la sociedad civil envían al BID recomendaciones para mejorar el Mecanismo Independiente de Consulta e Investigación (MICI) (9.30.09)
Civil Society Letter to IDB on ICIM second draft transparency 11.6.09 (PDF, 28KB)
Civil Society Input on IDB Inspection Panel Revision Proposal (CCRM) 2006
IDB Organizational Realignment
Discontent, Confusion, Non-Transparency: How to Become Relevant in Latin America 7/25/2007 (PDF, 495KB)
Final IDB Organizational Chart (2009)
Proposed IDB Organizational Chart (Dec. 2006) (PDF, 32KB)
IDB Blue Ribbon Panel on the Environment Recommendations on the Bank Realignment (May 18, 2007) (PDF, 98KB)
President Moreno’s Response to the Blue Ribbon Panel on Environment regarding Realignment (PDF, 1,509KB)
Indigenous Peoples fall backwards in the Realigned IDB (4.1.08)
IDB Restructuring: What Does It Mean?: Risks and Opportunities (2.16.07)
Resources from Prior Annual Meetings
2010 IDB Annual Meeting in Cancun, Mexico
2009 IDB Annual Meeting in Medellin, Colombia
2008 IDB Annual Meeting in Miami, U.S.
2007 IDB Annual Meeting in Guatemala City, Guatemala (2007)
BID en la Mira #1 Medellin 2009 (PDF, 1,121KB)
BID en la Mira #2 Medellin 2009 (PDF, 717KB)
IDB Watch Issue #1 4/5/2008 Miami (PDF, 1,658KB)
IDB Watch Issue #2 4/5/2008 Miami (PDF, 1,593KB)
IDB.50: 50 years financing inequality (Jan. 26, 2009)
BID.50: Cincuenta años financiando la desigualdad ¡Basta Ya! 1/27/2009 (PDF, 481KB)
BID50 Declaracion Español 2/13/2009 (PDF, 289KB)
BID50 Declaracion Español 2/13/2009 (PDF, 289KB)
Useful Websites
IFI Watch Net
Amazon Watch (United States)
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL, United States)
Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente (CEDHA, Argentina)
M'Bigua Ciudadanía y Justicia Ambiental (Argentina)
Instituto Latinoamericano de Servicios Legales Alternativos (ILSA, Colombia)
Oxfam America (United States)
Derecho, Ambente y Recurso Natural (DAR, Peru)
Government Accountability Project (GAP)
Accion Cuidadana Camisea (Peru)