By Toby McIntosh The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) should make significant changes in its transparency policies and practices, according to civil society…
Category: DFI Transparency
By Toby McIntosh The European Investment Bank in 2019 tweeted enthusiastically about “a milestone” that would “mobilise private institutional capital” for international development. The tweet…
EYE has created a chart to explain where to make requests for information from the eight major international financial institutions (IFIs). See the guide here:…
By Toby McIntosh The existence of strong access to information policies at international financial institutions yielded better project outcomes, according to an academic study. In…
By Toby McIntosh The transparency of development finance institutions (DFIs) is “poor,” according to a comprehensive evaluation issued Jan. 25 by Publish What You Fund.…
Publish What You Fund on Nov. 3 issued a DFI Transparency Tool listing 52 categories for the evaluation of transparency at development finance institutions (DFIs).…
By Toby McIntosh The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank fails to disclose adequate information about its projects, particularly about their environmental and social consequences, according to…
By Toby McIntosh Although many intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have adopted access to information policies, many have not, and the policies that do exist are proving…
Development finance institutions provide very little information about investments they make through private sector financial institutions, according to a detailed comparison done by Publish What…
A significant gap exists between policy and implementation. That’s a major finding from new research into whether development finance institutions (DFIs) share information about their…