Document Type
Essay
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
The International Accountability Mechanisms of the Multilateral Development Banks provide important insights into how to hold intergovernmental organizations to account for their environmental and social impacts. This perspective identifies how the IAMs hold the Banks to account according to the six standard questions of accountability: who is accountable, to whom, for what are they accountable, and what are the standards, processes, and sanctions employed to demonstrate that the MDBs are accountable. This highlights what the IAMs can and cannot hold the MDBs to account for, and how this might shape further international grievance mechanisms for people seeking to defend their lives, livelihood and land in light of global processes of production and exchange, climate breakdown, and species extinction.
Recommended Citation
Park, Susan, "Are the MDBs Accountable? Reflecting on the Independent Accountability Mechanisms of the Multilateral Development Banks" (2023). Perspectives. 20.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/accountability-perspectives/20
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