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The issue of retaliation has been a significant focus of work within the IRM recently. Since our last article in February, when we opened the call for comments on our Supporting Operating Procedures (SOPs) on...

If you are harmed by a development project, what would you do? For example, if you were moved from the land that you had occupied since birth, the land that your parents, and their parents had occupied too, to make way...

If you had a problem but did not know where to go or whom to contact for a solution, how frustrated would you be? For example, if you lost electricity at night, you would probably want to call the utility company to...

The Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) recently submitted its first Advisory Report, together with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Secretariat’s management response to the GCF Board. Drawing lessons from two World Bank...

Carlos was struggling to handle a complaint he had received as the complaint handling officer of a private national financial organization that had been funded for a project by an international financial institution....

Bo is a female community member at a project site funded by an international financial institution. She normally spends most of her day doing household chores and taking care of her five children. Her husband does not...

Three times a year, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approves the accreditation of several entities. These are organizations which partner with the GCF to implement projects and programmes. As of August 2020,...

A recurrent challenge in outreach events conducted by independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs) is the uneven level of prior information participants have about IAMs. While some participants are very familiar with...

Keith works for the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) in Belize, Hailo at the CRDB Bank in Tanzania and Tantra is based at PT SMI in Indonesia. What do they and 60 other accountability practitioners have...

If you had a right to receive information and to be consulted on the development and design of a Green Climate Fund (GCF) project, would it not make more sense for that information to be provided early on, so that you...

"While it is possible to hold virtual meetings online using Zoom or Webex or MS Teams software, it is hard to build trust with participants and keep them engaged”. This was a comment made at a recent gathering of...

The Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has developed a draft gender strategy note, which outlines the IRM’s commitments to a more gender-responsive approach in all its processes and...

In the past 10 years, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) has received 231 complaints related to projects of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency’s (MIGA), the...