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In memoriam – Leonardo Paat Jr., Environment and Social Safeguards, Gender and Indigenous Peoples Manager
... on 5th August. We at the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) offer his wife Carol, his daughter Loise, his sister Ina and ... of ESS. Leo was one of the very first GCF colleagues IRM staff met when they joined the GCF. He was the one who ...
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Empowering Climate Action: Highlights from our virtual training for Grievance Redress Mechanisms
The IRM recently concluded its 4-week virtual capacity building workshop, aimed at enhancing the capacity of grievance redress mechanisms (GRMs) of GCF direct access ... September to 17 October, allowed participants to follow the IRM's online training module on GRMs and join live sessions ...
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A learning platform for Grievance Redress and Accountability Mechanisms
... conference hosted by the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) that is scheduled for later ... that project implementation agencies and financial intermediaries establish GRAMs. This expansion of GRAMs is ...
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Enhancing Access to Grievance Mechanisms: Key Takeaways from the 11th GRAM webinar
... 11th webinar, hosted by the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The webinar focused on the critical topic of increasing access to grievance mechanisms. The event ... , SECU Peter Carlson , Communications Officer of the IRM, then discussed how the IRM used an advocacy grant to ...
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Defending Rights and Accessing Remedy: Learnings from Conversations with Civil Society based in West Africa
... countries, in particular those in the Niger Basin, are some of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change due to ... and outreach efforts, the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) works to ensure that local communities are aware of ... reputation of the Green Climate Fund. In doing so, the IRM shares information on relevant topics such as its ...
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What do “Vegefoods” and the “GRAM Partnership” have in common ?
Three staff members of the GCF’s IRM in South Korea realized that they were ... partnership to conduct in 2021. Subsequently, the GCF’s IRM convened the GRAM partners to develop a 2021 work plan ...
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Capacity Building for the empowerment of Direct Access Entities' (DAE) Grievance Redress Mechanisms
... their capacity across several programmatic areas. IRM held one plenary session and two clinic sessions during ... Grievances in Projects” focused on the benefits of having a grievance mechanism and on how to submit ... grievance mechanism and reveal the costs and benefits of institutionalising such a mechanism. The breakout ...
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Independent Units unite for workshop on design thinking
On 30 May, colleagues from IEU, IRM, and IIU came together for an immersive 1-day retreat at ... GCF Liaison Center in Seoul. The retreat, led by KAIST Professor Christopher Han , introduced participants to the fundamentals of design thinking. Design thinking is a human-focused ...
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Meet the team
Staff Sonja Derkum, Head of the IRM Sonja Derkum is the Head of the GCF's Independent ... Resolution Specialist of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). Paco Gimenez-Salinas, a Spanish and French national, ...
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Lessons learnt through the external review of the IFC’s environmental and social accountability
... (CAO) has received 231 complaints related to projects of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the ... private sector clarify E&S accountability for financial intermediaries and ensure their E&S performance strengthen ... Climate Fund (GCF) and the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM), particularly due to the similarities in the funding ...
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Sexual Harassment: Lessons from Two World Bank Projects
The Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) recently submitted its first Advisory Report , together ... Sexual Harassment in Ugandan Road Project In the shadow of a World Bank road development project in Uganda, a road ... with minors.” The Inspection Panel was not able to confirm the number of cases of child sexual abuse connected to ...
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Advancing accountability and equitable outcomes: Insights from the 10th GRAM webinar on the latest OECD Guidelines on Responsible Business Conduct
... for Responsible Business Conduct co-hosted the 10th webinar of the Grievance Redress and Accountability Mechanism (GRAM) ... partnership on 10 October 2023, in collaboration with the IRM. Peter Carlson, Communication Officer of the IRM, served as the moderator for the event. Nicolas Hachez, ...
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A virtual gathering of Grievance Redress and Accountability practitioners
... a remedy or have their problems solved. At the recent soft launch of the Grievance Redress and Accountability ... To respond to these demands, the GRAM partners ( GCF IRM , the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank’s ... of the GRAM community of practice is available in the IRM’s previous blog . A virtual gathering of Grievance ...
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From Proposals to Complaints, Participatory Monitoring is Essential
In the early 2000s, members of local farming communities in Cajamarca, Peru raised a red ... informative approach, and which are often used to simply affirm a limited view of the project from the company ... used within any high-impact development project. For the IRM and the GCF at large, participatory monitoring holds ...
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If projects shape community relations, then how should we shape projects?
Amara is appointed as the manager of a newly approved project in country X, which is a country ... Mechanisms (GRMs) like the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Given the importance ... grievances at a level closer to the project. It is also the IRM’s mandate to build the capacity of this wide ...
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Accessing Redress: Public interest law organizations, communities and grievance redress mechanisms
... more than “blah, blah”. History will judge the impact of this agreement. One thing though is clear. More funding ... for developing countries for climate change projects. Much of those funds will flow through international and national ... Mechanisms (GRMs) come in. Much has been written on the IRM web page about GRMs, suffice it to say they are set up ...
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Land acquisition and involuntary resettlement. Lessons from the GRAM Community of Practice.
... a license to operate commercial ventures. With the support of Oxfam UK, the two communities filed a complaint with the ... of the complications was that the IFC had invested in an intermediary institution which had then in turn invested in ... PROPARCO and FMO) and Dr. Lalanath de Silva, Head of the IRM , shared a compliance review example from Cambodia. The ...
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A push for corporate sustainability in the EU
... address the negative human rights and environmental impacts of the operations of EU companies and their subsidiaries and value chains. The ... view the 2021 webinars on the GRAM Partnership page of the IRM website. Similar events focusing on individual ...
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The need for private sector accountability mechanisms and beyond: "A canary in the coal mine"
... John Ruggie. The framework essentially laid out a set of house rules for the nexus between human rights and ... IFIs have also begun to increasingly rely on financial intermediaries or in the case of the Green Climate Fund, ... on the first generation of grievance mechanisms such as the IRM, the Social and Environmental Compliance Unit (SECU) (of ...
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