- Inspection Panel Chairman, Gonzalo Castro de la Mata, attended the “IFIs, Human Rights and Accountability" Conference hosted byUrgewaldand held in Belin, Germany on March 16-17, 2013. Gonzalo participated in several of the sessions and made apresentationon lessons learned from recent Panel cases. See more photos in ourFacebook page.
- April 23, 2015 Washington, DC Inspection Panel Comments on Recent Press Coverage Regarding World Bank’s Resettlement Practices The Inspection Panel acknowledges the important set of issues raised by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalist (ICIJ) on the World Bank’s resettlement practices. The Panel notes, however, that thesearticles provide incomplete information about…
- John Garrison, Senior Civil Society Specialist, and Mishka Zaman, Senior Operations Officer at the Inspection Panel (IPN) traveled to South Africa to reach out to international and South African CSOs during the CIVICUS International Civil Society Week (ICSW) held in Johannesburg from November 21 – 24, 2014. The CIVICUS assembly is one of the world’s largest annual gatherings of CSOs and this…
- Elaine Zuckerman, the President and Founder of Gender Actionvisited theInspection Panelon December 16, 2014, to talk about the advocacy work they carry out on the gender policies and practices of the World Bank and other International Financial Institutions (IFIs). Having worked at the World Bank as an economist on China projects in the 1980s, and later as a gender expert in late 1990s, she also…
- After a visit to Paraguay, the Panel issued a Notice of Non-Registration. From March 1 to 4, 2015, Panel Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata and Operations Analyst Birgit Kuba traveled to Paraguay to assess the progress of thePanel’s Second Pilot to Support Early Solutions of the Paraguay Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Project (PRODERS).The Request for Inspection had been submitted…
- TwoInspection Panel staff members –Dilek Barlas(Executive Secretary) andTatiana Tassoni(Senior Operations Officer) – just published a paper titled “Improving Service Delivery through Voice and Accountability” on how strengthening the voice and accountability of local stakeholders can improve development outcomes of World Bank-financed projects. The paper is one of several chapters on the Panel…
- Nick Pelosi, Corporate Engagement Manager ofFirst Peoples Worldwide visited the Panel on February 10, 2015 to talk about their work promoting Indigenous rights worldwide. First Peoples is an Indigenous People’s-led organization which funds local development projects in Indigenous communities all over the world, using traditional Indigenous knowledge to solve problems related to medicine, food…
- Members of World Bank Inspection Panel (WB-IPN) and European Investment Bank Complaint Mechanism (EIB-CM) participated in a joint visit to Kenya on January 10 – 17, 2015. They were there to determine the eligibility of the complaint received from four Maasai communities resettled under the WB and EIB financed Kenya: Electricity Expansion Project (#97) due to the construction of a geothermal plant…
- The Inspection Panel hosted its traditional Open House during the recent WBG/IMF Spring Meetings. A wide range of colleagues including Executive Directors, CSO leaders, Bank staff, and Academics attended the April 15 get together. See more photos in ourFacebook page.
- Conscience International (CI) * and theInspection Panel organized a CSO outreach workshop in Banjul, The Gambia on 19 April, 2015 for CSO delegates attending the 56th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights. Over 40 CSO representatives from over a dozen African and European countries participated in the workshop, which was held within the concomitant NGO Forum.…