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... Rights Council has recognized the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a fundamental human right.  ... affected to national parks under threat by illegal poachers and loggers.  However, a right which cannot be protected or ... of environmental rights or supporting environmental procedures and standards are increasingly allowing those ...

... For situations like this, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other financial institutions have established Grievance ... the project, you can file a complaint with a GRAM.  The IRM of the GCF is such a GRAM. Good management of your ... and on the final outcomes.  For this purpose, the GCF IRM has two tools. First, we have put in place a modern ...

... as the new Head of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The Board also announced Paco Gimenez-Salinas, Compliance and Dispute Resolution Specialist, as Head ad interim. Under ... decision B.35/18, Derkum has been appointed as Head of the IRM. The decision was taken by the GCF Board during its ...

... years at the GCF, Lalanath de Silva's tenure as Head of the IRM comes to an end on 31 August. In this episode, we talk with Lalanath about his time leading the IRM. Redress Now is a podcast by the Independent Redress ... where we look into the world of accountability, redress, and grievance within climate finance and international ...

In the eighth episode of "Redress Now," we look at the IRM's new board game "Road to Redress".  The board game was created to help possible complainants and other stakeholders better understand the IRM's complaint handling process. For more information on ...

The IRM receives complaints from project-affected people, and once a complaint is declared eligible, it enters a problem-solving or a compliance review process. The IRM is seeking a qualified high-level compliance specialist ...

... presented the rationale behind the Self-Assessment Tool and the IRM/GCF shared the assessment method it used and the utility of the OHCHR self-assessment tool. The IRM's self-assessment report The IRM's self-assessment ...

... elements to successfully operating them? Answers to these and many more questions were discussed at a three-day-workshop held by the IRM between 7 and 9 October in Songdo, South Korea. In total ... this event. The workshop was held and organized by the IRM and facilitated by David Fairman, an external consultant ...

... Green Climate Fund Building transparency, accountability and keeping good faith for a new institution is undoubtedly a daunting and challenging task. Various mechanisms exist and are ... GCF remains faithful and accountable to its policies and procedures speaks to the very essence of why independent ...

Incheon, 24 August 2023 - The Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) welcomes the arrival of Sonja Derkum as its new Head of ... global recruitment process. "I am thrilled to join the IRM team and contribute to its mission of addressing complaints from ...

Over the last decade, a new generation of grievance redress and accountability mechanisms (GRAMs) have sprouted up to ... donor requirements. To help these new mechanisms, the IRM formed the GRAM partnership in 2019 to offer leadership, ... Compliance and Dispute Resolution Specialist at the IRM. Redress Now is a podcast by the Independent Redress ...

The pandemic has posed great challenges for individuals and ... presented by Covid-19. After the success of the IRM’s first virtual outreach event in the Pacific region , the IRM team has been committed to further exploring the virtual ...

... to call the utility company to find out what is going on and when power will be restored? But to do so, you would ... they knew about the GCF’s Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The IRM would not be able to do its job unless people who have ...

The IRM's board game "Road to Redress" was recently featured in ... Matters." The newsletter provides updates on cases, events and activities of the AM and the two units it houses – the Inspection Panel and the ...

... The project staff, therefore, go to the project site and inform the villagers there that the project may require ... the unique functions of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the ability to ... Guidance on FPIC see, http://greenclimate.fund/documents/guidelines-indigenous-peoples-policy (visited 6th November ...

Carlos was struggling to handle a complaint he had received as the complaint handling ... had enrolled for a training course conducted by the GCF’s IRM on grievance redress mechanisms, and within two weeks he ... carried the logo of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the GCF, Consensus Building Institute, and the ...

... the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) appointed Andrea Repetto Vargas as the new Director of its ... and Investigation Mechanism (ICIM, or MICI).  The IRM has a staff member who worked with MICI before, and so the IRM hopes that this creates an even greater opportunity to ...