WUNRN
Bank on Human Rights – Development Finance Institutions &
Human Rights Due Diligence – Gender
http://bankonhumanrights.org/about/
Bank on Human
Rights is a global coalition of social movements, civil society organizations,
and grassroots groups working to ensure that all development finance
institutions respect human rights. Bank on Human Rights works to support
members’ advocacy at the local, national, and international level.
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http://bankonhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ANNEX-II-Analysis-and-Assessment-3.23.15.pdf
Issue Areas for Social
Risk and Opportunities Analysis and Social Impact Assessment
http://bankonhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ANNEX-II-Analysis-and-Assessment-3.23.15.pdf
Broad and Inclusive, but WUNRN Calls for WOMEN & GIRLS, GENDER, SPECIFICITY in Issue Areas.
Early Warning System
Early Warning System - http://bankonhumanrights.org/
The Early Warning System alerts communities to projects funded
by development banks that may affect their rights and shares tools, information
and contacts to support their advocacy.
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Bank on Human Rights
A coalition for human rights
in development finance
Development
Finance Institutions and Human Rights Due Diligence
Bank on Human Rights is a
newly formed global coalition of social movements, civil society
organizations, and grassroots groups working to ensure that all development
finance institutions require respect for human rights in the operations they
finance.
Development activities can have a profound impact on the
realization of human rights within borrower countries. This impact can be
positive, such as improved access and quality of health care, increased
protection of indigenous peoples' land rights, and education that reaches the
most marginalized populations. Impacts can also be negative, as in the case of
forced evictions, imposed solutions that undermine the livelihoods of
never-consulted communities, or reforms that further entrench
discrimination. In many instances, however, the human rights implications
of development activities are not obvious or immediately apparent.
Standard development planning, screening, assessment and monitoring tools are
not designed to fully capture human rights impacts. Because of this,
opportunities to contribute to the realization of human rights through
development finance, or to mitigate negative human rights impacts associated
with development initiatives, are frequently missed.
Despite
recognition of the connection between human rights and development by many
governments, international organizations and the donor community, as well as by
civil society organizations and national human rights institutions, there
remains a need to further clarify the content and components of human rights
due diligence in the context of development finance institutions, including
methodologies, tools and best practices for risk and impact assessment.
There is also a need for greater understanding of how to best work with, and
support, borrower countries in pursuing responsible, sustainable and human
rights-reinforcing development.
While some
development finance institutions have made significant strides in developing
policies and mechanisms to protect individuals and communities, there is still
much work to be done to ensure that the poor and vulnerable have voice and
power in development processes, and to ensure that development activities meet
their needs and respect their rights.
Bank on Human
Rights
aims to constructively and proactively contribute to fill this gap by developing
a best practice toolkit for incorporating human rights risk and impact
assessment within the standard social and environmental assessment frameworks
of development finance institutions. The toolkit will be designed to fit
within the policy framework and systems of the World Bank. The World Bank
is viewed as a leader and standard-setter globally, and as such is a critical
player in the development finance arena. The basic methodologies that
underlay the toolkit, however, will be applicable to development finance
institutions generally, including national development banks and bilateral
development agencies. As such, the toolkit will help to advance efforts
to increase the use of human rights due diligence within development finance
more broadly.
The development of the toolkit will be shaped by the inputs of an Expert Advisory Group consisting of human rights and development experts and practitioners.