By Toby McIntosh The rules on transparency and participation for the new climate change Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) will be written soon. A few…
Category: World Bank
The drive toward disclosure of the “GEMs” database, seems to be perking along, still with many questions unanswered and limited information. EYE has received a…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank has provided a smidgen of new information about the probable disclosure of the “GEMs” database, but also left many…
By Toby McIntosh A “ladder of transparency” was described recently by a World Bank official. The ladder has four rungs for countries to climb to…
By Toby McIntosh The three-person external appeals board that decides appeals concerning the World Bank’s access to information policy has issued several pro-transparency decisions this…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank is denying access to documents about its reviews of contracts using Bank funds, and to the contracts themselves. The…
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…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank was slow to respond when Tanzania proposed, in 2018, to set criminal penalties for critics of official statistics, according…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank has declined to disclose a copy of a contract awarded by Sierra Leone to monitor its Covid-19 spending. Releasing…
By Toby McIntosh The World Bank improperly refused to release more than 100 documents, according to a ruling by the Access to Information Appeals Board…