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…
By Toby McIntosh The release of information about large methane emissions by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) has been delayed. The much-anticipated revelations, based…
By Toby McIntosh The UN agency that advocates for the right of information has amended its own access to information policy without public consultations and without following…
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 Thalif Deen This article first appeared May 1 in the Inter Press Service and is reprinted with permission. The United Nations has consistently been a…
By Toby McIntosh The Green Climate Fund is keeping secret a report critical of a controversial project in Nicaragua. Well, partially secret. The GCF Board…
By Toby McIntosh The international steering committee that controls the Global Emerging Markets Risk Database (GEMs) has decided to make the data more transparent, according to…
By Toby McIntosh Unlocking a massive treasure chest of financial data could fuel more private sector investment in developing countries, according to advocates calling for…
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 A new international effort to identify major methane emissions will detect at least 40-50 episodes a month and make information about them…