IFC policies and standards review documents
Correspondence
CSO letter on IFC policy review, July 27, 2009
IFC's Response to Civil Society Letter, August 11, 2009
ifc documents and links
IFC Policy Review page
IFC Environmental and Social Standards page
IFC's Policy and Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability and Policy on Disclosure of Information: Report on the First Three Years of Application, July 29, 2009 (IFC website)
IFC Policy and Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability and Policy on Disclosure of Information: A Process Proposal for the Third Year Policy Review and Update, August 2008 (IFC website)
IFC Policy on Social & Environmental Sustainability, April 30, 2006 (IFC website)
IFC Performance Standards, April 30, 2006 (IFC website)
IFC Policy on Disclosure of Information, April 30, 2006 (IFC website)
papers and briefings
Contracts Confidential: Ending Secret Deals in the Extractive Industries, Revenue Watch Institute, September 2009
One Step Forward, One Step Back: An Analysis of the International Finance Corporation’s Sustainability Policy, Performance Standards, and Disclosure Policy, Halifax Initiative, May 2006
Tarnished Gold: mining and the unmet promise of development, September 2006
Breaking Ground: Engaging Communities in Extractive and Infrastructure Projects, World Resources Institute, February 2009
Community Guide to the International Finance Corporation's Performance Standard 7 on Indigenous Peoples, Forest Peoples Programme, October 2008
ifc Review in the news
Letter from Himachal Pradesh by Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter, Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2009
Additional Resources
BIC Extractive Industries webpage
BankTrack's Equator Principles webpage
International Accountability Project IFC Review webpage
Older documents and information
Civil Society Analysis
The International Finance Corporation's Performance Standards and the Equator Principles: Respecting Human Rights and Remedying Violations? by Steven Herz, Kristen Genovese, Kirk Herbertson, and Anne Perrault (CIEL, BIC, BankTrack, Oxfam Australia, WRI) August, 2008 (Acrobat pdf, 89.2 KB)
Available Company Data for IFC Required Disclosures (Acrobat pdf, 174 KB)
Review of IFC social, environmental and disclosure policies, Bank Information Center Policy Update. September 7, 2004.
The IFC, Mining, and the Public's Right to Know, Bank Information Center, June 2003 (Acrobat pdf 36 KB)
Public Access to Information at the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, by Christopher Chamberlain, Bank Information Center, March 1997 (Acrobat pdf 136 KB) (Highlights ongoing policy concerns voiced by the NGO community and donor governments alike. Makes policy recommendations and thoroughly critiques a broad range of issues with both agencies’ disclosure of information, accountability, and transparency.)
Comments on the International Finance Corporation Draft Environment and Social Policy and Procedure Framework, Bank Information Center, April 1998. (Acrobat pdf 640 KB)
- The World Bank Group and the Private Sector: A Closer Look at the International Finance Corporation and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, Bank Information Center, 1998. Not available online.
Press
Critics Weigh in as IFC Tightens Mining Rules by Abid Aslam, September 10, 2007 (IPS website)
Mining Projects Need Stiffer Standards -- Report by Haider Rizvi, September 8, 2007 (OneWorld US website)