international accountability mechanisms

This work focuses on mechanisms within the Independent Accountability Mechanisms Network (IAMnet)—a professional membership network.^{principles, criteria}

Work on this repository is in its very early stages. I am currently still culling data from across IAM member pages:

• adb
• afdb
• ebrd
• eib
• idb_idb
• idb_iic
• world-bank.md

NOTE: Just a bit after I began this project, Susan Park published a database of claims submitted to MDB accountability mechanisms between 1994 and 2016. I'll eventually cross-reference this resource).

I would ulitmately like to build a tool that pulls and re-organizes these data into a common framework.

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Members of IAMnet currently include:
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• African Development Bank (AfDB) - Independent Review Mechanism (IRM)

  • Operating Rules and Procedures (2015)

• Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Accountability Mechanism

  • Compliance Review Panel (CRP)

• Black Sea Trade and Development - Internal Audit Department

• Caribbean Development Bank - Complaints

• Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) - Independent Complaints Mechanism

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - Project Complaint Mechanism (PCM)

  • PCM Rules of Procedure (2014)

• European Investment Bank (EIB) – Complaints Mechanism

  • Complaints Mechanism Policy
  • Operating Procedures (2013)

• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) [sometimes also: IADB] - Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI)

  • MICI-IDB Policy [IDB, MIF]
  • MICI-IIC Policy [IIC]

• International Finance Corporation and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency - Compliance Advisor Ombudsman

• Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) - Office of Examiner for Environmental Guidelines (OEEG)

• Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) - Independent Complaints Mechanism

• Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) - Objection Procedures on Environmental Guidelines

• Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) - Complaints

• Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) - Office of Accountability (OA)

• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Social and Environmental Compliance Review and Stakeholder Response Mechanism

• World Bank - Inspection Panel -Operating Procedures (2014)

references:

• Independent Accountability Mechanisms Network (IAMnet): http://independentaccountabilitymechanism.net/