Database on environmental and social grievances against the Multilateral Development Banks (V6) now out!

[Susan Park]

Dear all,

Happy holidays. I wanted to share the latest version of my open access database (it's now 10 years old!): Claims Submitted to the Multilateral Development Bank Accountability Mechanisms DOI: 10.25910/gmha-jk63

Blurb: The dataset represents a summary depiction of grievance cases brought to the Accountability Mechanisms (AMs) of the six Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) from 1994 to 2024: The Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the African Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank (IBRD/IDA) and the World Bank Group (IFC and MIGA). These Accountability Mechanisms were created to enable people adversely or potentially adversely affected by a project or program financed by the MDBs to take their concerns to the Banks for recourse. Claimants can request dispute resolution or a compliance investigation to determine if the harm resulted from the Banks not following their environmental and social safeguard policies,

The database can be searched by project, country, year, where in the process it the claim got to (mediation with/out an outcome, compliance investigation), and searched in terms of what policies were breached by the banks if found guilty of environmental and social harm stemming from their (in)actions (involuntary resettlement, environmental impact assessment, Indigenous People policy etc).

New features: now includes the Asian Investment Infrastructure Bank and now incorporates the World Bank's Dispute Resolution Service. 

Previously people wanted to know who was submitting the claims and or the role that I/NGOs play so I co-wrote a paper on that, which can be found open access here. 

I hope some of you find it useful for teaching!

Best,

Susan

Susan Park

Professor of Global Governance

Discipline of Government and International Relations

Sydney Environment Institute – Transformative Governance Research Lead

University of Sydney

Social Sciences Building A02 Sydney NSW 2006

Australia

E: susan...@sydney.edu.au

Tw: @spark_syd

W: www.susanmpark.com

  

Editor Global Environmental Politics

 

New:

The Good Hegemon: US Power, Accountability as Justice, and the MDBs (OUP, 2022)

Database V5: Claims Submitted to the MDB Accountability Mechanisms 1994-2022

Environmental Recourse at the Multilateral Development Banks (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

 

   I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, whose land I walk, work, and gather on every day.