🔔 REMINDER!🔔 Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for the next round of energy finance conversation! We will be exploring energy finance trends and community-led solutions from South Asia. We will also have simultaneous interpretation in Hindi. Please register here: bit.ly/EFT-SouthAsia
International Accountability Project
Non-profit Organizations
Brooklyn, NY 1,708 followers
Supports community-led development, access to info, participation and works to defend human and environmental rights
About us
What if development were designed and lived by the same people? International Accountability Project (IAP) works for a world in which all people can shape the decisions that affect their homes, environment, and communities. Development should be a process that enables all people to uphold and claim their human rights, live with dignity, and thrive on the land they love. IAP, an international advocacy organization, wins policy change, boosts local advocacy efforts & supports local activists and communities to access & exchange information on development that affects them. By opening space at influential decision-making spaces, IAP seeks to advance development principles and projects that prioritize human and environmental rights. IAP is recognized for its nimble, thoughtful & inclusive work that fights for community-led expertise & experience to be the center of how development is designed, funded and implemented. At our core, IAP leverages community-level expertise & experience to increase community-led participation & reinforce campaigns supporting community-led development. * IAP reinforces how communities participate as central figures in the development process. IAP identifies the development financial institutions and standard-setting processes with the greatest impact on people’s ability to shape their own development and provide remedies when rights are violated. * To influence the policy and practice of development and as a mobilization tool, IAP assists communities to gather their own community-led research on their development priorities, their experience in the development process and the potential impacts of development projects. * When assisting specific campaigns, IAP supports the community-led priorities and recommendations directed toward the financial institutions, governments, and project proponents connected to the project. IAP reinforces community-led campaigns to change how development is designed, funded, and implemented.
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http://accountabilityproject.org/
External link for International Accountability Project
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- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn, NY
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2003
- Specialties
- Development, Human rights, Social justice, International Financial Institutions, Activism, Data, Community Organizing, Policy , Business and Human Rights, and Climate Justice
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195 Plymouth St
Brooklyn, NY 11201, US
Employees at International Accountability Project
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Mwebe John
Let's Talk Land Governance, Development Financing & Corporate Accountability
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Carlo Manalansan
Development Worker • Researcher • Photojournalist
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Elias Kris Jika
Program Coordinator at International Accountability Project
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Tom Weerachat
Global Lead on Community-Led Advocacy at International Accountability Project
Updates
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🚨Want to know the latest energy investment trends in South Asia? Download our #EnergyFinanceTrackerReport and join us on December 19th to learn more about the challenges and community-led responses! Sign up 👉https://lnkd.in/gi2wCq8X Energy Finance Tracker Report: https://lnkd.in/gECusTDZ Energy Finance Tracker Database: https://lnkd.in/gYt5d3en
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Our recent report with IRCDUC highlights the struggles of The World Bank-funded housing project residents in India in securing a mechanism from the bank and the Tamil Nadu government to finalize pending applications for sale deeds and provide land titles. READ NOW: https://lnkd.in/gSV3dQsu
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📅MARK YOUR CALENDAR! Join the conversation on Tracking Energy Finance in South Asia on December 19th! We will unpack energy finance trends and how civil society groups and communities are working towards just and community-led solutions. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gi2wCq8X Community Empowerment and Social Justice Network (CEMSOJ) Centre for Financial Accountability Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy (AIPNEE) Coalition for Human Rights in Development
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On #InternationalHumanRightsDay, let's urge development finance institutions to reconsider investments in countries with closed civic spaces. These institutions must prioritize human rights and use their influence to promote open and democratic societies✊🌍 As part of IAP’s work supporting rights Defenders, #IAP and the Coalition for Human Rights in Development published the report, “Financing Repression” to expose how development banks finance multi-million dollar projects in highly repressive contexts. The report highlights the limitations and risks for Defenders and the human and environmental costs of these investments. Download now: https://lnkd.in/gPcxJiaU
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How much are DFIs investing in countries with closed civic space? Our analysis shows that the World Bank invested most in countries with closed civic space. Using data from #EarlyWarningSystem, #IAP and the Coalition for Human Rights in Development analyze development banks investments in countries marked as having “closed” civic space. Download our report now: https://lnkd.in/gPcxJiaU
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📢#FinancingRepression is now out! Using data from #EarlyWarningSystem, #IAP, and the Coalition for Human Rights in Development analyze development banks' investments in countries marked as having “closed” civic space. 👉From 2019 to 2023, 13 development banks invested at least US$ 88 billion through 1058 projects in 18 countries with closed civic space. 👉China, Egypt, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam received almost 90% of the total investments. 👉In the 18 countries with closed civic space, the most funded sectors are finance (13.6%), energy (12.7%), transport (11.8%), law and government (10.2%), and infrastructure (9.2%). Download our report now: https://lnkd.in/gPcxJiaU
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📢 Join #IAP and Coalition for Human Rights in Development on the launch of #FinancingRepressions! Find out how development banks fuel repressive regimes by heavily investing in countries restricting civic freedoms and discuss how they should promote open civic space. Register now: https://lnkd.in/gas4y9im
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📢Get ready for the launch of #FinancingRepression, the new report of the #DefendersInDevelopment campaign! Join #IAP Ryan Schlief with other panelists to discuss the recent analysis of IAP and the Coalition for Human Rights in Development on development banks fueling repressive regimes by heavily investing in countries restricting civic freedoms, and to discuss what they should do to promote open civic space. Register now 👉 https://lnkd.in/gas4y9im Language: the report is currently being translated into French, Spanish, and Russian. Please indicate if you require interpretation from English to any of these languages when you register, but please note we will only be able to ensure interpretation if there are at least five requests for it by Nov 28. The report is co-authored by the Coalition for Human Rights in Development, International Accountability Project, and Early Warning System, and endorsed by 37 organizations. Learn more about the report: https://lnkd.in/gzhUgt9x
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IAP is collaborating with educational institutions and civil society organizations across Central Asia through the Climate Alliance on Education (CAE). Together, we're working to advance climate justice in the region. Read about the latest work of CAE in a blogpost by IAP's Shoira Olimova and CAPS Unlock's Marzhan Tajiyeva: https://lnkd.in/gCe8tfaU
From Awareness to Action: How Climate Education Inspires Activism in Central Asia
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