U.S. coalition calls for World Bank reforms
19 November 2007
A coalition of U.S. development and environmental groups has released a joint platform containing needed World Bank reforms, ahead of the 15th replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA) negotiations in Dublin, Ireland.
Updated March 27, 2008
As World Bank President Robert Zoellick ramps up a $37 billion fundraising campaign to replenish the Bank's International Development Association (IDA), a coalition of U.S. development and environmental groups has released a joint platform containing needed World Bank reforms.
The platform identifies three critical reform areas the World Bank needs to address: ending economic policy conditionality, fighting energy poverty and climate change and increasing transparency and accountability at the World Bank. The coalition has also launched a lobbying campaign urging the U.S. Congress to require World Bank reforms while considering requests for additional appropriations for the World Bank in 2008.
A similar campaign is underway in Europe.
If you'd like to sign on to the platform, please send your organization's name and logo to Srabani Roy at .
READ THE JOINT NGO/CSO PLATFORM
U.S. coalition calls for World Bank Reforms, March 27, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 189 KB)