Duncan Pruett

“It is our job to bring life, colour, democracy and legitimacy to this process.”
@toveryding.bsky.social speaking truth to power on the lack of space for Civil Society participation at the #FfD4 Conference 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪
#FfD4People #SystemChangeNow #EraOfJustice

Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism on X: "“It is our job to bring life, color, democracy and legitimacy to this process.” @toveryding Speaking truth to power on the lack of space for Civil Society participation in the #FfD4 Conference 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪#Ffd4People https://t.co/gCiVDB4V76" / X “It is our job to bring life, color, democracy and legitimacy to this process.” @toveryding Speaking truth to power on the lack of space for Civil Society participation in the #FfD4 Conference 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪#Ffd4People https://t.co/gCiVDB4V76

A powerful response to an outrageous approach #ffd4
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Come and work with the wonderful @re-course.org team!

This is a good time to encourage the @EU_Commission and members to do the right thing - address the #debt crisis (yes, a debt crisis), and ensure countries most indebted have a say in how to solve it by setting a new course beyond the status quo at the #FFD4 this June.

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🌍 #WBGMeetings Civil Society Policy Forum

Africa stands at a crossroads in its energy transition. Can #Mission300 turn on the switch for the people who need it most?

📍World Bank HQ I Building 2-220, Washington DC
🗓️ 25 April, 9-10:30am

Details in the flyer below. Livestream available on the day.

EVENT #WBGMeetings Civil Society Policy Forum
📍World Bank HQ I, Washington DC
🗓️ 24 April, 9-10:30am

Join us for a discussion on the International Finance Corporation safeguards: successes, policy gaps, implementation, and the new review

See speakers and details in the flyer 👇

Some important though long-awaited news from the @ifcorg.bsky.social at the the start of the week of the World Bank "Spring meetings" in Washington

Great to see my colleagues @djw14.bsky.social and @kategeary.bsky.social kicking off one of the key debates - on "FIs" - which needs to happen as @ifcorg.bsky.social prepares to review its influential Sustainability Framework.

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This #InternationalWomensDay, let’s celebrate the women leading the way in the just #EnergyTransition across the Global South💡

From solar-powered enterprise in Kenya to microgrid initiatives in Bangladesh, women are proving that clean energy is possible

📣 @rajbhuee.bsky.social #IWD2025 #MDBs

Cover image for the new report from the BU GPD Center and Universidad del Pacífico CECHAP: Unmined Potential? Opportunities for development finance to support sustainability and inclusion in transition mineral supply chains

I’m delighted to share my latest w/ @gdp-center.bsky.social colleagues @julieradomski.bsky.social, Bowen Gu & Cynthia Sanborn:

Unmined Potential? Opportunities for development finance to support sustainability and inclusion in transition mineral supply chains.

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This month, together with +35 members and partners, we will join the #FinanceinCommonSummit to make our voices heard, and denounce how development banks - way too often - are exacerbating the impacts of the #climate crisis while talking about sustainability and a #JustEnergyTransition.

Concerning findings here about @ifcorg.bsky.social involvement in nearly 4GW of new coal power projects in Vietnam, running counter to national JETP commitments. See new research by my @re-course.org colleagues. re-course.org/newsupdates/...

#Hiring
We are looking for an Energy Transition Advocacy Consultant to support our clean energy campaign

📅Short term, February to end June
🌐 Remote, full-time
⌛️ Apply by 30 January

Details and how to apply here ➡️ re-course.org/jobs-at-recourse

#NGOjobs #EnergyJobs #ClimateJobs

#Mission300🌍

Ahead of today’s Civil Society Dialogue with the World Bank, African Development Bank, and their partners, we call for bold, inclusive & accountable leadership to ensure that Mission 300 delivers a sustainable energy future & leaves no one behind.

Our demands 🧵

Billionaire Wealth Surged By $2 Trillion Last Year, @oxfaminternational.bsky.social Report Shows
Not only has the rate of billionaire wealth accumulation accelerated—by three times—but so too has their power
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#TakersNotMakers
#FightInequality

Recourse has joined Bluesky 🦋

Follow our channel for news, research and campaigns related to international financial institutions, sustainable development, rights, accountability and justice.

www.re-course.org 🌍 🌱

#ClimateJustice #DebtJustice #MDBs #IMF

From #Uganda to #Mexico, our members and partners around the world are standing up for #climatejustice and resisting an extractivist model that exploits resources in the Global South to fuel over-consumption in the Global North.

👇Read their stories in our latest newsletter:
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Re-upping this with more additions of civil society advocates and academics working on IFIs, including @katemac.bsky.social, @isabelortiz.bsky.social, @akentikelenis.bsky.social… and many more

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As 2024 draws to a close, @re-course.org looks back on a busy but inspiring year, working to hold public finance accountable to people and the planet

Huge thanks to our partners, funders, colleagues past and present, and our allies around the world ✊

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#2024Wrapped 👇📺

The World Bank should reconsider its mega dam project in Tajikistan Providing funding to a repressive regime to construct the ‘highest dam in the world’ is a recipe for disaster. On December 17 the World Bank is set to vote on financing the Rogun mega dam project in Tajikistan. If the...

The World Bank should reconsider its mega dam project in Tajikistan
->Al Jazeera | #WorldBank | More info from EcoSearch

A ‘new chapter’? The future of rare earth mining under KIO rule Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentall...

Last month, the Kachin Independence Organization completed its takeover of a border region formerly known as Special region 1. Jauman Naw, Jaw Tu Hkawng, @hpanjabrang.bsky.social & I look at what this could mean for the region’s rare earth mining industry.
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

Great news.

It’s 365 days from the nomination of Nadia Calvino as @eib.org president.

In one year, plenty has changed for all to remain the same - let’s go with #EIBwrapped

In advice to 11 countries with IMF loans, @imfnews.bsky.social endorsed fossil fuel extraction “to bolster fiscal and debt positions as well as foreign reserves through exports.”
Is this the climate action it boasts about?
More in our report 🔖http://bit.ly/IMFclimate
@federicosibaja.bsky.social

Excellent and timely report "A Safe Pair of Hands?" with findings from @re-course.bsky.social deep dive into how multilateral development banks have been spending climate finance - does it reach those who need it? does it respect rights? 👉 bit.ly/COP29cf