Partners

The following is a list of environmental, human rights, and other special interest organizations whose work is at least partly focused on monitoring activities of one or more international financial institutions. Please note that this list is intended to be a resource and that an organization's inclusion does not necessarily suggest a formal partnership with the Bank Information Center.

These organizations have an international focus. For organizations with a specific regional focus, please see the appropriate regional partners pages on this website: Africa | Asia | Europe/Central Asia | Latin America

• 50 Years Is Enough, Washington, DC
  www.50years.org
  50 Years Is Enough Network is a US-based coalition of over 200 organizations committed to the fundamental transformation of the IMF and the World Bank. It builds partnerships to overcome global economic injustice, and works toward people's greater control over the resources, structures, and economic policies and processes that affect their lives.
• Action Aid USA, Washington, DC
  www.actionaidusa.org 
  The goal of ActionAid USA is to pursue social justice and the eradication of poverty for all the world's people. Programs include conducting research to highlight some adverse impacts of World Bank and IMF loans and grants, and supporting access to the WB, IMF, and US State Dept. for their partners around the world.
• Agir Ici IFI Campaign, France
  www.agirici.org (This site is in French) 
  Agir Ici works with partners in the Global North and South to coordinate a network of organizations seeking to reform international financial institutions. They work to denounce the global macro-economic strategies of rich countries which set back efforts made to promote sustainable development in countries of the South. Agir Ici also works to open debate on this issue in France and expand propositions for reform of the IFIs.
• AID/WATCH, Australia
  www.aidwatch.org.au
  AID/WATCH is an activist organisation monitoring and campaigning on Australian overseas aid and trade policies and programs. They work to ensure aid-funding reaches the right people, communities and their environments.
• ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression
  www.article19.org
  Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this organization works worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information.
• Berne Declaration, Switzerland
  www.evb.ch
  A Swiss NGO working towards equitable North-South relations. They monitor the role of Swiss corporations, banks, and governement agencies, and address the problems of unequal international trade and financial relations, unsustainable consumption patterns, and cultural prejudices.
• Both ENDS, Netherlands
  www.bothends.org 
  Both ENDS supports the work of environmental organizations, through information, research, advocacy, campaigning, networking, and capacity-building. The core of its activities is in making connections, between South and North, environment and development, and different sectors of society.
• Bread for the World Institute, Washington, DC
  www.bread.org
  A partner organization of Bread for the World, Bread for the World Institute seeks justice for hungry people by engaging in research and education on policies related to hunger and development.
• Bretton Woods Project, United Kingdom
  www.brettonwoodsproject.org
  The Bretton Woods Project works as a networker, information-provider, media informant, and watchdog to scrutinize and influence the WB and IMF. Created by a group of British NGOs, it works with an extensive network to press for increased transparency and civil society participation in policy making.
• Campagna per la riforma della Banca mondiale (Campaign to Reform the World Bank), Italy
  www.crbm.org (This website is in Italian)
  CRBM works for reform at the World Bank Group, EIB, WTO, Export Credit Agencies, and Private Banks on issues related to the environment, private sector development, finance and debt, IFI governance, and trade.
• Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD), United Kingdom
  www.cafod.org.uk 
  CAFOD is a major British charity that raises money to finance long-term development work with the world's poorest communities; immediate help for people affected by emergencies; analysis of the causes of underdevelopment; campaigns on behalf of the world's poor; and education in England and Wales that raises awareness.
• Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), Washington, DC
  www.cepr.net 
  CEPR was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. Toward this end, CEPR conducts both professional research and public education, so that the public is better prepared to choose among the various policy options.
• Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), New York
  www.cesr.org/ 
  CESR promotes the universal rights of every human being to housing, education, health, a healthy environment, food, work, and social security.
• Center of Concern (COC), Washington, DC
  www.igc.org/coc
  The Center of Concern closely monitors the work of the international financial institutions (IFIs) and their impact on our global justice agenda.
• Centro de Estudios Internacionales (CEI), Nicaragua
  www.ceinicaragua.org.ni/ (This site is in Spanish)
  CEI es una organización orientada a trabajar alrededor de la paz y la justicia económica, en un plano local, nacional, regional y global.
• Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
  www.ciel.org
  CIEL is a nonprofit organization working to use international law and institutions to protect the environment, promote human health, and ensure a just and sustainable society. We provide a wide range of services including legal counsel, policy research, analysis, advocacy, education, training, and capacity building.
• Choike: A Portal on Southern Civil Societies, Uruguay
  www.choike.org
  Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as a platform where NGOs can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources.
• Citizen's Network on Essential Services (CNES), Washington, DC
  www.servicesforall.org/
  CNES works to democratize national and global governance by supporting citizens' groups that are engaged in influencing policy decisions about basic services. CNES works to identify and describe the mechanisms with which the World Bank, IMF, and WTO influence policy reforms.
• Climate Ark, Madison, WI USA
  www.climateark.org/ 
  The Climate Ark is an information portal on climate change. It is dedicated to promoting public policy that addresses global climate change through reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions, renewable energy, energy conservation, and ending deforestation.
• Conservation International (CI), Washington, DC
  www.conservation.org 
  Conservation International's mission is to conserve the earth's living natural heritage, our global biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.
• Development GAP, Washington, DC
  www.developmentgap.org 
  The Development Group for Alternative Policies works to ensure that the knowledge, priorities, and efforts of the women and men of the South inform decisions made in the North about their economies and the environments in which they live.
• EarthRights International (ERI)
  www.earthrights.org
  ERI is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization (NGO) that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment, our earth rights.
• Eco-Portal
  www.eco-portal.com
  Eco-Portal is an information source on environmental sustainability. It provides full-text searches of reviewed environmental internet content, news, links, and more from over 3,000 internet sites.
• Environmental Defense (ED), Washington, DC
  www.environmentaldefense.org
  Environmental Defense's multilateral development banks program seeks to impact how institutions such as the World Bank Group, IMF, and regional development bank loans and policies affect the environmental and social status of the developing world.
• Environmental Media Services, Washington, DC
  www.ems.org/
  EMS is a nonprofit communications clearinghouse dedicated to expanding media coverage of critical environmental and public health issues. The organization builds relationships with top scientists, physicians, and other experts to bring journalists the latest and most credible information.
• Essential Action / Multinationals Resource Center, Washington, DC
  www.EssentialAction.org 
  Essential Information is involved in projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. They publish a monthly magazine, books and reports, sponsors investigative journalism conferences, support writers to pursue investigations, and disseminate information to grassroots organizations in the US and the Third World.
• European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD), Brussels
  www.eurodad.org
  Eurodad is a network of 48 development NGOs from 15 European countries working for national economic and international financing policies that achieve poverty eradication and the empowerment of the poor.
• Focus on the Global South, Bangkok
  www.focusweb.org/ 
  Focus aims to consciously and consistently articulate, link, and develop greater coherence between local community-based and national, regional, and global paradigms of change. Focus on the Global South strives to create a distinct and cogent link between development at the grassroots and the "macro" levels.
• Food and Water Watch
  www.foodandwaterwatch.org
  Food and Water Watch works with grassroots organizations and other allies around the world to stop the corporate control of food and water. They are committed to creating an economically and environmentally viable future.
• Foreign Policy In Focus
  www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org 
  FPIF seeks to make the US a more responsible global leader and partner. It functions as an international network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates. Unlike traditional think tanks, FPIF is committed to advancing a citizen-based foreign policy agenda, one that is fundamentally rooted in citizen initiatives and movements.
• Foreningen for Internasjonale Vann- og Skogstudier (FIVAS), Norway
  www.solidaritetshuset.org/
  fivas (This site is in Norwegian)
  Foreningen for Internasjonale Vann- og Skogstudier er en uavhengig organisasjon som arbeider for å kartlegge konsekvenser av store damutbygginger i den tredje verden. Vi følger spesielt med på prosjekter der norske næringsinteresser deltar, og forsøker å hindre norsk deltakelse i prosjekter med store negative konsekvenser for mennesker og natur.
• Forest Conservation Portal, Madison, WI, USA .
  www.forests.org
  Forest Conservation Portal works to end deforestation, preserve old-growth forests, conserve and sustainably manage other forests, conserve water and climatic systems, and commence the age of ecological restoration
• Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), United Kingdom
  www.forestpeoples.org
  FPP is an NGO established to work with forest peoples in their struggle to survive the global forest crisis. FPP tracks the policies on indigenous peoples and forests and presses for concrete changes to policies and programs to ensure that local communities have a decisive voice in future projects.
• Freedom from Debt Coalition
  www.freedomfrom
  debtcoalition.org/ 
  The main task of the Coalition is ADVOCACY.  We define advocacy to mean the process of promoting alternatives and working for changes to policies, programs, structures, and relations.  FDC  addresses national and local issues  in various arenas at all levels, including international arenas.
• FreedomInfo.org, Washington, DC
  www.freedominfo.org
  This site is a one-stop portal that describes best practices, consolidates lessons learned, explains campaign strategies and tactics, and links the efforts of freedom of information advocates around the world.
• Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), Amsterdam
  www.foei.org/ 
  Friends of the Earth International is a federation of autonomous environmental organizations from all over the world. Its members campaign on environmental and social issues while working to catalyze a shift toward sustainable societies.
• Friends of the Earth, US (FoE), Washington, DC
  www.foe.org
  Friends of the Earth is the U.S. voice of Friends of the Earth International- an international network of environmental grassroots groups in 70 countries. Their involvement in MDBs includes campaign advocacy related to socially and environmentally destructive projects and policies.
• Gender Action, Washington, DC
  www.genderaction.org
  Gender Action's mission is to promote women's rights and gender equality and ensure women and men equally participate in and benefit from International Financial Institution (IFI) investments in developing countries.
• Global Response, Boulder, CO
  www.globalresponse.org 
  Global Response empowers people of all ages, cultures, and nationalities to protect the environment by creating partnerships for effective citizen action.
• Greenpeace International, Amsterdam
  www.greenpeace.org 
  Greenpeace has long campaigned to expose the inconsistencies between the World Bank's lending practices and its stated policies.They call on the WB to propose actions to measurably alleviate the urgent environmental problems, implement specific targets and timetables to achieve poverty and environmental objectives, as well as other critiques.
• Halifax Initiative, Ottowa, Canada
  www.halifaxinitiative.org/
  Halifax Initiative is a coalition of development, environment, labour, human rights, and faith groups deeply concerned about the international financial system and its institutions. Primarily focused on the World Bank, the IMF, debt, and the Tobin Tax, they have established themselves as the Canadian presence for public interest advocacy and education on IFI reform.
• Human Rights Watch
  www.hrw.org 
  Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. Human Rights Watch researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world.
• IFI Watchers Network
  www.ifiwatchnet.org 
  IFIwatchnet is a tool for networking and collaboration amongst the many global civil society organisations which are monitoring and campaigning on the international financial institutions (IFIs).
• Indian Law Resource Center, Washington, DC
  www.indianlaw.org/ 
  The Indian Law Resource Center is dedicated to assisting indigenous peoples combat racism and oppression, realize their human rights, protect their lands and environment, and achieve sustainable economic development and genuine self-government.
• Indonesian Forum on Globalization (INFOG)
   
• Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Washington, DC
  www.ips-dc.org/
  The Institute for Policy Studies is the nation’s oldest multi-issue progressive think tank and has worked with social movements to forge viable and sustainable policies to promote democracy, justice, human rights, and diversity.
• Instituto del Tercer Mundo (ITeM), Uruguay
  http://www.item.org.uy/ 
  ITeM's is a civil society organization who services civil society with information, communication, and education about development and the environment at the national and international levels. They aim to stimulate the participation of citizens in global decision making processes.
• InterAction, Washington D.C.
  www.interaction.org
  InterAction is the largest alliance of US-based international development and humanitarian NGOs. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, InterAction works to overcome poverty, exclusion, and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all.
• International Accountability Project, Berkeley, CA
  http://www.accountabilityproject.org/
  The International Accountability Project (IAP) is a public interest advocacy organization that offers legal support to a global network of people who are seeking to hold international financial institutions and multinational corporations accountable for violations of environmental and human rights. We also work to defend the rights of communities around the world threatened with displacement by international development projects.
• International Export Credit Agency Reform Campaign, Oakland, CA
  www.eca-watch.org/
  The ECA campaign is a growing network of NGOs and bodies focusing on various aspects of ECA reform. ECA Watch is an organizing and outreach feature of this larger intn'l campaign. Participants include environment, development, human rights, community, labor, anti-corruption, and other bodies.
• International Rivers Network, California
  www.irn.org
  IRN's mission is to halt and reverse the degradation of river systems; to support local communities in protecting and restoring the well-being of the people, cultures, and ecosystems that depend on rivers.
• IUCN, The World Conservation Union
  www.iucn.org
  IUCN is a unique union of members from over 70 States, 100 government agencies, 750+ NGOs. More than 10,000 scientists and experts volunteer to its commissions. This ‘Green Web’ has used scientific knowledge and innovative leadership to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
• Jubilee Research, London, England
  www.jubilee2000uk.org/
  Jubilee Research is building on the work of the Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign, and in particular its reputation for providing up-to-date, accurate research, analyses, news and data on international debt and finance.
• Jubilee USA Network
  www.jubileeusa.org
  Jubilee USA is a network of over 60 organizations including labor, churches, religious communities and institutions, AIDS activists, trade campaigners, and over 9,000 individuals dedicated to working for a world free of debt for billions of people.
• Millennium Institute, Arlington, VA
  www.millenniuminstitute.net
  Millennium Institute believes that a sustainable and more peaceful and equitable future for Earth is attainable. To that end, Millennium Institute provides tools, analyses, questions, and strategies to enable policymakers and others to understand the long-term consequences of their choices.
• National Wildlife Federation
  www.nwf.org
  The NWF is the nation's largest member-supported conservation group, uniting individuals, organizations, businesses, and government to protect wildlife, wild places, and the environment. They hope to achieve a peaceful, equitable, and sustainable future.
• New Economics Foundation (NEF), United Kingdom
  www.neweconomics.org
  The New Economics Foundation is a radical think tank, bringing together ideas, people, resources, and influence to challenge business-as-usual. economies. NEF was founded by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit (TOES) 1984. NEF has helped to shift the economic discussion in favour of people and the environment.
• New Rules for Global Finance Coalition
  www.new-rules.org
  New Rules for Global Finance is a coalition of development, human rights, labor, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty and inequality, uphold fundamental rights, and protect the environment.
• Novib, Netherlands
  www.novib.nl 
  Novib is een Nederlandse ontwikkelingsorganisatie met ruim 300 professionele medewerkers. Specialisten op het gebied van projectfinanciering, beleidsbeïnvloeding, onderwijs, voorlichting, campagnevoering en fondsenwerving. [This site is in Dutch.
• Open Society Institute (OSI)
  www.soros.org/index.html 
  OSI is a part of the Soros foundations network, whose goal is to transform closed societies into open ones and to protect and expand the values of existing open societies.
• Oxfam America
  www.oxfamamerica.org/
  Oxfam America is dedicated to creating lasting solutions to hunger, poverty, and social injustice through long-term partnerships with poor communities around the world.
• Oxfam Australia /Community Aid Abroad (CAA)
  www.caa.org.au
  CAA aims to increase the number of people who have a sustainable livelihood, access to social services, an effective voice in decisions, safety from conflict and disaster, and equal rights and status.
• Oxfam Great Britain
  www.oxfam.org.uk 
  Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering.
• Pacific Environment
  www.pacificenvironment.com
  Pacific Environment protects the living environment of the Pacific Rim by promoting grassroots activism, strengthening communities and reforming international policies.
• Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
  www.panna.org
  PANNA works closely with partner grassroots organizations in the South to monitor and evaluate the impacts of World Bank projects on their communities, agricultural systems, and surrounding environment.
• Probe International, Canada
  www.probeinternational.org/
  Probe International exposes the environmental, social, and economic effects of Canada's aid and trade abroad, also monitoring and exposing effects of IFI projects thru the WB, ADB, and bilateral agencies like the Canadian International Development Agency and the Export Development Corporation.

• Publish What You Pay (PWYP) aims to help citizens of resource-rich developing countries hold their governments accountable for the management of revenues from the oil, gas and mining industries. When properly managed these revenues should serve as a basis for poverty reduction, economic growth and development rather than exacerbating corruption, conflict and social divisiveness. The Publish What You Pay coalition of over 300 NGOs worldwide calls for the mandatory disclosure of the payments made by oil, gas and mining companies’ to all governments for the extraction of natural resources.

  Sarah Pray
  Coordinator, Washington, DC
  Publish What You Pay U.S.
  Tel: (202) 721-5623
  

• Rainforest Action Network (RAN), California
  www.ran.org 
  Rainforest Action Network works to protect rainforests and the rights of people living in and around those forests.
• RESULTS, Washington, DC
  www.results.org
  RESULTS was formed as a grassroots citizens advocacy organization comprised of citizens in more than 100 communities across the United States who lobby Congress for effective solutions to hunger and poverty in the US and abroad.
• Revenue Watch Institute
  www.revenuewatch.org
  The mission of the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) is to improve democratic accountability in natural resource-rich countries by equipping citizens with the information, training, networks, and funding they need to become more effective monitors of government revenues and expenditures. The Revenue Watch Institute works to ensure that the revenues generated by the extractive industries contribute to sustainable development and poverty reduction, through the promotion of public finance transparency in resource-dependent countries.
• SAPRIN (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network), Washington, DC
  www.igc.org/dgap/
  saprin/index.html 
  SAPRIN is a global civil-society network that took its name from the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative (SAPRI), which was launched with the World Bank and its president, Jim Wolfensohn, in 1997. SAPRI is designed as a tripartite exercise to bring together civil society, their governments, and the WB in a review of structural adjustment programs and an exploration of new policy options.
• Social Justice Committee, Canada
  www.s-j-c.net 
  SJC is committed to recognizing the root causes of global poverty, social injustice, environmental degradation, and the links among these problems. Its focus is on global economic justice, human rights abuse, and cancelling Third World debt, especially in Central America and Mexico.
• South Asian Networks for Dams, Rivers, and People (SANDRP), India
  www.narmada.org/sandrp/
  SANDRP began with a view to interact on issues of concern in the context of formation of the World Commission on Dams and hopes to work beyond the WCD issues too.
• South Bank University, UK
  www.sbu.ac.uk 
   
• Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN), Washington, DC
  www.seen.org 
  SEEN is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute They work in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights, and development issues. SEEN particularly focuses on energy, climate change, environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues, as these play out in North-South relations.
• The Policy Kiosk
  www.policykiosk.com 
  The Policy Kiosk is a policy neutral, public forum. Organizations and individuals are welcome to post unedited copies of their responses to policy maker's requests for public commentary. The Kiosk seeks to enhance the performance of those empowered to influence the lives and resources of others by encouraging transparency in policy dialogue, wide-spread public participation in policy development, and respect for the rights of powerless peoples.
• The Solidarity Center
  www.solidaritycenter.org/ 
  A non-profit organization that assists workers around the world who are struggling to build democratic and independent trade unions. They work with unions and community groups worldwide to achieve equitable, sustainable, democratic development and to help men and women everywhere stand up for their rights and improve their living and working standards.
• Third World Network, Malaysia
  www.twnside.org.sg/
  TWN is an international network involved in issues relating to development, the Third World, and North-South issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social, and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform for Southern interests and perspectives at fora such as the UN conferences and processes.
• Threshold 21, Integrated Development Model, Arlington, VA
  www.threshold21.com 
  The Millennium Institute’s Threshold 21 (T21) Integrated Computer Development Model is a quantitative tool for integrated, comprehensive development and policy planning. T21 can provide insight into the potential impact of development policies and strategies relative to desired goals and objectives.
• Urgewald, Germany
  www.urgewald.de/
  Urgewald ist eine gemeinnützige Umwelt- und Menschenrechtsorganisation. Wir sind Ansprechpartner für Umwelt-, Entwicklungs und Menschenrechtsorganisationen aus allen Teilen der Welt, die ihren Lebensraum durch internationale Entwicklungsprojekte mit deutscher Beteiligung gefährdet sehen. urgewald streitet für eine Reform der gängigen Umwelt-, Entwicklungs- und Wirtschaftspolitik nach sozial und ökologischen Kriterien.
• World Bank Bonds Boycott, Washington, DC
  www.worldbankboycott.org
  "The World Bank Bonds Boycott is an international grassroots campaign that puts moral, political, and financial pressure on the World Bank, challenging harmful World Bank policies by boycotting the purchase of bonds, through which the WB raises most of its funds."
• World Rainforest Movement (WRM), Uruguay
  www.eco-web.com/
  register/02593.html
  WRM is an international network of both Northern and Southern citizens' groups working to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and support their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonization and settlement, and other projects that threaten them.
• World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington, DC
  www.wri.org
  WRI is an environmental research and policy organization that creates solutions to protect the planet and improve people’s lives. WRI’s four key goals are protecting Earth’s living systems, increasing access to environmental information, creating sustainable enterprise and opportunity, and reversing global warming.
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
  www.panda.org/mpo 
  WWF's MPO seeks to promote conservation and sustainable development through a new approach to economic development: integrating environmental sustainability and social equity into the formulation and applying these development strategies at national and international levels.
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Washington, DC
  www.wwf.org
  World Wildlife Fund is dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife and wildlands. As part of WWF, the Sustainable Commerce Program is dedicated to promoting conservation through engagement with public policy issues surrounding trade, investment, and international commerce.
• World, Ecology, Economy, and Development (WEED), Germany
  www.weed-online.org/
  themen/english.html
  WEED engagiert sich in nationalen und internationalen Netzwerken und führt Organisationen und Initiativen in Nord und Süd zusammen. Mitglieder von WEED arbeiten in unterschiedlichen Bereichen und Institutionen, die mit Fragen der globalen Entwicklung zu tun haben.
• Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC
  www.worldwatch.org 
  Worldwatch Institute offers a blend of interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing that has made it a leading source of information on the interactions among key environmental, social, and economic trends.