GTI Letter to President Zoellick on WB Disclosure Review Global Transparency Initiative, February 21, 2008 (PDF, 187KB)
Read the correspondence between BIC and the World Bank:
BIC letter to World Bank regarding Disclosure Policy review April 1, 2009 (PDF, 71KB)
World Bank response to BIC letter regarding Disclosure Policy Review April 7, 2009 (PDF, 56KB)
Civil society updates
Activist Q&A: Meet Yahya Saleh Mohsen, Yemen Observatory for Human Rights (BIC website)
We want your feedback, as long as you speak English, By William Easterly, July 2, 2009 (Aid Watch website)
The Bank of Babel: Why the World Bank should stop (only) speaking English, By Rebecca Harris, June 30, 2009 (Foreign Policy website)
Obama's schooling the Bank on transparency, By Chad Dobson and Rebecca Harris, June 23, 2009 (The Huffington Post website)
Civil society to the World Bank: Adopt transparency 2.0, By Chad Dobson and Rebecca Harris, May 5, 2009 (The Huffington Post website)
Memorandum on World Bank Board Transparency Bank Information Center, April 2009 (PDF, 99KB)
Transparency violations common theme for World Bank Inspection Panel, By Toby McIntosh and Rebecca Harris, April 21, 2009 (freedominfo.org)
Yemeni group says lack of translation inhibited transparency, By Rebecca Harris, April 22, 2009 (BIC website)
Voices struggling to be heard: Access to information and the World Bank, By Chad Dobson and Rebecca Harris, April 20, 2009 (The Huffington Post website)
World Bank Rejects Disclosure of Aide Memoires, By Toby McIntosh, March 17, 2009 (freedominfo.org)
Hello, Hello: Calling the World Bank, By Toby McIntosh, March 17, 2009 (freedominfo.org)
International Donors Engage Vietnam on Press Freedom, By Toby McIntosh, March 17, 2009 (freedominfo.org)
A Guide to ADB Transparency: Key Questions for the 2003-2004 Review, Bank Information Center, March 2004 (Acrobat pdf 334 KB)
What You Should Know About the World Bank's Translation Framework, Bank Information Center, November 2003 (Acrobat pdf 512KB). Also available: Français (Acrobat pdf 34KB) | Pусский (Russian) (Acrobat pdf 245KB) | Español (Acrobat pdf 34KB)
Implementation of the World Bank’s Disclosure Policy: An External Review, June 2003 (Acrobat pdf 686 KB)
Issues for Consideration During the ADB Disclosure Review, May 2003 (Acrobat pdf 500 KB)
Transparency and Accountability in International Financial Institutions, May 2003 (Acrobat pdf 533 KB)
The IFC, Mining, and the Public's Right to Know, Bank Information Center, June 2003 (Acrobat pdf 36 KB)
Global Call for Greater Transparency at the World Bank
Issues and Opportunities for 2002-2003: Promoting the Public’s Right to Know
Assessment of World Bank Group’s Revenue Transparency Implementation in the Extractive Industries (Acrobat pdf, 148 KB). Also available: Pусский (Russian) (Acrobat pdf, 218 KB)
Transparency of Extractive Industry Contracts - Understanding World Bank Group Influence (Acrobat pdf, 57 KB)
Transparency of Extractive Industries Contracts - The Case for Public Disclosure (Acrobat pdf, 73 KB)
Other Analyses
US Rep Frank Threatens to Withhold Money From World Bank, by Jessica Holzer, NASDAQ online, September 10, 2009
Atlanta Declaration and Plan of Action for the Advancement of the Right of Access to Information, February, 29, 2008. (Acrobat pdf, 68 KB)
Publish What You Pay NGO Coalition Statement G8 Summit - Sea Island, USA, June 2004 (Acrobat pdf 137 KB)
Access to Information: The Commercial Side By Roderick Macdonell, World Bank Institute, July 2003 (World Bank website)
WRI Issue Brief: Aligning commitments: Public Participation, International Decision-Making, and the Environment World Resource Institute, May 2003 (WRI website)
Transparency and the IMF-Toward Second Generation Reforms, by Thomas C. Dawson, Director of External Relations at the IMF, March 17, 2003 (IMF website)
Stability, Growth and Poverty Reduction: The UK and the IMF 2002, Department of Her Majesty's Treasury, United Kingdom, March 2003 (Department website)
Open Statement on Steps to Democratize the World Bank and IMF, Bretton Woods Project, endorsed by over 70 organizations, 2003 (Bretton Woods Project website)
Global Corruption Report 2003 Transparency International (TI website)
International Right To Know: Empowering Communities through Corporate Transparency, International Right To Know (IRTK) Coalition, January 2003 (IRTK website)
Reform Proposals for the Governance Structures of the IFIs: A New Rules for Global Finance Briefing Paper, New Rules for Global Finance, 2003 (NRGF website)
Access to Informatin: A Key to Democracy, November 2002 (The Carter Center website)
Honolulu Face-Off: Civil Society 1, Asian Development Bank 0, Focus on the Global South, May 2001 (Focus website)
Useful Web Pages
Freedominfo.org's IFTI Watch: Articles on Access to Information at the MDBs
For more information about the Global Transparency Initiative or the GTI’s Charter of Transparency Principles for IFIs, see: www.ifitransparency.org
BIC webpages on transparency: