http://www.bicusa.org/en/Issue.58.aspx The latest news on World Bank Safeguards Review from the Bank Information Center 10 http://www.infodev.org/images/infodev.gif http://www.bicusa.org/en/Issue.58.aspx The World Bank has published a guidance note on how best to engage with local communities throughout a project cycle. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12632.aspx Tue, 15 May 2012 12:10:22 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12632.aspx Opposition to the proposed "Kosovo C" coal plant is mounting. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12627.aspx Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:01:29 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12627.aspx Carl Pope shows how World Bank projects that have the biggest short-term benefits cause the most long-term damage to the environment and surrounding communities. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12624.aspx Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:48:11 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12624.aspx New papers show how the World Bank safeguards work with local laws. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12621.aspx Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:56:09 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12621.aspx An open letter from BIC and other NGOs requesting a meeting to discuss the challenges the next President will face. This letter is open indefinitely for signatures. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12616.aspx Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:56:39 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12616.aspx 101 organizations and individuals endorse a letter to the World Bank President on disability and Safeguards. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12606.aspx Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:30:53 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12606.aspx A 5% cap will limit P4R Operations over a 2 year pilot period, but questions remain about how P4R expansion will be conditioned upon the results of management and IEG evaluations http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12602.aspx Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:03:48 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12602.aspx The outgoing World Bank Country Manager for Brazil, Mahktar Diop, challenges the conclusions of an evaluation by Bank Information Center of the $1.3 billion Sustainable Environmental Management Development Policy to promote environmental reforms in Brazil. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12592.aspx Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:39:11 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12592.aspx A new evaluation of a $1.3 billion World Bank development policy loan to promote sustainability reforms at the Brazilian National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) that questions the effectiveness of DPLs due to weaknesses in existing Bank policy guiding their design and execution. The report calls for the reform of Bank DPL policy as an urgent part of the ongoing revision of World Bank safeguard policies to ensure consistent management of risk across all World Bank operations. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12553.aspx Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:13:50 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12553.aspx This update prepared by the Bank Information Center introduces the FCPF Readiness Package (R-Package) and the Carbon Fund (CF) operational. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12545.aspx Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:21:16 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12545.aspx At the Civil Society Townhall Meeting with World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Laila Iskandar, an Egyptian activist and chairperson of the Community and Institutional Development Group eloquently spoke on behalf of global civil society outlining the various CSO concerns which had been brought to her attention. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12540.aspx Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:12:52 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12540.aspx With goals of achieving greater participation for civil society organizations in World Bank operations alongside a commitment to inclusive and equitable development strategies, BIC/MENA and civil society representatives from Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Yemen among others successfully engaged the Bank at the 2011 Civil Society Policy Forum of the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12539.aspx Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12539.aspx Civil society organizations (CSOs) submitted a letter to World Bank President Robert Zoellick on the World Bank safeguards review on August 31, 2011. The letter includes signatories as of this date and organizations who wish to sign the letter can do so below. On Sep 20, 2011 World Bank Managing Director Caroline Anstey responded to this letter. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12530.aspx Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:06:20 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12530.aspx It took many years to establish the World Bank's operational policies that safeguard society and the environment, and are some of the world's highest development standards. As the Bank reviews these policies, civil society is organizing efforts to present their concerns and expectations, and offer their imputs as to what the outcome of the review should be. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12528.aspx Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:01:29 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12528.aspx The Bank Information Center, World Resources Institute, and the Center for International Environmental Law have prepared a briefing that introduces the World Bank safeguards review which will begin in September 2011. http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12509.aspx Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:08:38 GMT http://www.bicusa.org/en/Article.12509.aspx