By Toby McIntosh The UN Environment Programme’s access to information system is dysfunctional. This conclusion is based on personal experience. During 2023, I filed four…
By Peter Ungphakorn The following article is reprinted with permission from Trade β Blog, an independent blog started by Peter Ungphakorn, who worked at the WTO…
By Toby McIntosh The Green Climate Fund Board has excluded its internal watchdog from any further role in reviewing a controversial project in Nicaragua. The…
By Toby McIntosh Less than half of United Nations agencies have access to information policies, according to a survey by Eye on Global Transparency. Setting…
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…