Pushing for an accountable Asian Development Bank
This year, the ADB will launch a long-overdue review of its Independent Accountability Mechanism, a vital tool for communities who are seeking remedy for harm caused by ADB financing.
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MDBs investing in a just energy transition?
Are the multilateral development bank making progress on the just energy transition, or funding more fossil gas and false solutions? We’re taking a closer look at their investments from 2022-2024.
What will the World Bank and IMF do next?
The recent World Bank & IMF Spring Meetings took place in a highly charged global context, amid growing calls for systemic reform in global finance. Recourse and partners called for no backsliding in commitments to energy transition, accountability, and development
A new safeguard for the World Bank Group’s riskiest investments?
The International Finance Corporation has an opportunity to influence and improve standards across the financial sector, as it reviews its safeguards policy. Recourse and partners are calling for a new safeguard on financial intermediaries, among others on climate and gender.
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.