A new toolkit to support action on debt justice over the course of 2025, linking to the Jubilee 2025 campaign and the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development. 

Over 200 civil society organisations and individuals have sent a letter urging European leaders to commit to a transformative and ambitious agenda of financial architecture reform at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development.

In response to the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, Eurodad says that the two institutions 'cannot be entrusted with the responsibility of the international economic system.'

Join Eurodad and partners at the Civil Society Policy Forum and World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings this April.

Written by by Evelien van Roemburg (Oxfam International), Javier García de la Oliva (ActionAid) and Jean Saldanha (Eurodad).

Read the piece in full on EU Observer

One year ago, at the time of the Annual Meetings in Marrakech, WBG President Ajay Banga said “I don’t subscribe easily to buzzwords about how to do things”. This was in response to CSO concerns about the use of the ‘cascade approach’ to development – a phrase coined by the WBG seven years ago. In plainer English it means the WBG seeks to leverage private finance in support of development and climate projects. Today, ahead of the 2024 Annual Meetings, which mark the 80th anniversary of the institution, the World Bank Group says it aims “to create a future-ready World Bank Group.” This sounds like yet another buzzword to us.

Civil society organisations call on the International Monetary Fund management and Board members for an evaluation of the 2015 guidelines and a Board-mandated framework to establish mandatory rules for CSO engagement at all levels.

On the eightieth anniversary of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, it is time for a change of course. In this blog, our experts on the Bretton Woods Institutions explain why the world is in urgent need of more responsive, democratic, accountable and development-orientated. global economic governance. 

Our director, Jean Saldanha, looks forward to the challenges and events in 2024.