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We scrutinise and influence the World Bank and the IMF, with a focus on the environment, gender equality, democratic governance and financialisation. Check our website: https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org

Cover if the Fuel Subsidies report showing a demonstration in the streets of Cairo in 2012
Electoral parade of the Pastef party of Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Dakar, Senegal, 15 March 2024. Photo: Pierre Laborde / Shutterstock
CSPF: How Can DPFs Promote Equitable Energy Access and Accomplish Climate Objectives? DFs are one of the main tools that the Bank uses to deliver mitigation and adaptation outcomes to its member countries. This session will explore how DFs are currently used to support countries' national climate goals and energy transitions, how they are assessed and accounted for, and how they can be improved. The session will also reflect on recent DPF examples, identifying opportunities for improving climate integration and civil society participation in future operations. Friday, October 17, 2025 11:00am-12:30pm Eastern Room I 2-220 World Bank I Building Moderator Katelyn Gallagher Policy Director Bank Information Center Valerie Hickey Global Director for Climate Change World Bank Wilfried Kouame Senior Economist for Gambia and Senegal World Bank Jon Sward Environment Project Manager The Bretton Woods Project Nadishani Perera Southern Asia Consultant Partnership for Transparency Fund
Civil Society Policy Forum 2025 IMF comprehensive surveillance review: looking back and forward Wednesday 15th October, 11:00 - 12:30 EDT IMF HQ2-03B-768B Moderator: FEDERICO SIBAJA, IMF Campaign Manager, Recourse Speakers: NABIL ABDO Senior Policy Advisor Oxfam International ZAIN MOULVI Research Director Alternative Law Collective TARA POVEY Macroeconomics Project Lead Bretton Woods Project ROUGUI DALLO Economic Research Officer International Trade Union Confederation ALEKSANDRA ZDZIENICKA Deputy Division Chief IMF Strategy Policy and Review Department (SPR) SARAH SANYA Deputy Division Chief IM Strategy Policy and Review Department (SPR)
Photo showing outside and logo of the IMF A Global Coalition of 70 Civil Society Groups Calls for an SDRs Playbook to Unlock Emergency Finance At the 2025 Financing for Development Forum, nearly every country in the world endorsed the Compromiso de Sevilla, urging the IMF to create a Special Drawing Rights playbook. Today, 70 organizations call for reforms to maximize global financial stability and development finance, including automatic issuances, needs-based distribution, and equity-based accounting.
People demonstrate against the government of Argentinian President Javier Milei in front of the National Congress, Buenos Aires. Photo: Luis Robayo/AFP
BWP new website homepage Monitoring the negative impacts of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
INFRASTRUCTUREnews World Bank energy strategy review considers reversing phaseout of support for gas production 15 JULY 2025 | ID: 52982 | PROOF SUMMARY As World Bank pushes to provide electricity to 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 under Mission 300, it considers lifting ban on support for gas production.
Event at the World Bank Group & IMF Spring Meetings 2025, titled: Jobs - The Path to Prosperity. Photo: Tolani Alli / World Bank.
A view of a protest during the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4). Photo: UN Photo/Mariscal
Installation of solar photovoltaic panels on the roofs of the Hongqiao Passenger Rail Terminal in Shanghai, China. Photo: Jiri Rezac
INFRASTRUCTUREnews World Bank’s controversial support for Inga 3 dam signals return to big hydropower projects 15 JULY 2025 SUMMARY CSOs criticise Bank’s return to financing ‘top-down mega dams’ and question its claims that project will resolve energy access deficit in DR Congo
We call on the World Bank to: 1. End policy-conditional climate finance enforcing private-led trsbitions 2. Align with Just Transition principles Ensure full transparency in climate finance accounting #Justtransitiondeferred Bretton Woods Project
New data shows the World Bank counted 70% of energy-sector reforms in Development Policy Financing as having 'climate co-benefits' between 2018-2023 - but most of these promoted a private-led energy transition #JustTransitionDeferred Bretton Woods Project
An IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings 2025 Civil Society Policy Forum event. Decoding IMF Accounting Unlocking the Full Potential of SDRs Andrés Arauz Senior Research Fellow CEPR Maia Colodenco Director of Global Initiatives Suramericana Vision Jon Sward Environment Project Manager Bretton Woods Project MODERATOR Niranjali Amerasinghe Executive Director ActionAid USA 23 APRIL 2:30 PM Room: IMF HQ2-03B-768B This session clarifies SDRs' equity instrument status and reserve asset characteristics to harness their full potential for budget support and debt relief. Organized by: Center for Economic and Policy Research, ActionAid USA, MENAFem, Bretton Woods Project, Latindadd
Civil society and communities achieve victory as World Bank cancels tourism project in Tanzania 15 APRIL 2025 SUMMARY World Bank confirms cancellation of controversial tourism project in Tanzania, after over 2 years of civil society campaigning.
Cover of the Bretton Woods Observer Spring 2025, showing two cartoons representing the World Bank and the IMF, accompanied by the EU and US flags, watering down a flame that represents the Spirit of Monterrey from the top of the walls of old town Seville
cover of the Bretton Woods Observer Winter 2024 edition
Snapshot of one of BWP's News Lens alerts
Screenshot from the Bretton Woods Observer Winter 2024 email alert
Cover of the Bretton Woods Observer Spring 2024, showing two cartoons representing the World Bank and the IMF agreeing to the "gentleman's agreement"