What is a “Better, Bolder, Bigger” bank?
Multilateral development banks need to rethink their private-sector driven reform agenda, which risks putting profit over people’s rights, development needs and climate action.
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Putting people and planet at the heart of energy transition
Our report asks how the just transition to renewable energy can ensure careful and consultative mineral supply chains, to tread lightly on people and planet.
Our impact in 2023
The world of development finance saw big shifts in 2023. Recourse and partners were at the forefront of all the issues.
About us
Recourse targets development finance as a means of influencing the wider investment community, financial flows and governments, to ensure inclusive, environmentally sustainable, socially just and pro-poor development.
How we work
Campaign
- Partnering with others to influence decision-makers and hold financial institutions to account.
- Advocating to shift policies and practices to ensure inclusive, environmentally sustainable, socially just and pro-poor development.
- Using evidence-based research and advocacy to build a compelling case for change.
Support
- Partnering with local communities and civil society to secure their rights and fight discrimination.
- Working in solidarity with local communities to open political space and ensure their voice in development decision-making.
- Supporting communities who have suffered harm to gain remedy and justice.
Multiply
- Building coalitions to be greater than the sum of our parts and maximise impact.
- Movement-building to foster long-term systemic change.
- Networking and capacity-building to create an informed and engaged movement to hold financial institutions accountable.