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Citizen-Driven Accountability: The Inspection Panel and Other Independent Accountability Mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Peter L. Lallas
Peter L. Lallas*
Affiliation:
World Bank Inspection Panel
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Regulating the Impacts of International Project Financing
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 107 , 2013 , pp. 308 - 314
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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References

1 See Weiss, Edith Brown, International Law in a Kaleidoscopic World, 1 Asian J. Int’l L. 21 (2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 See, e.g., World Bank Inspection Panel, Accountability at the World Bank: The Inspection Panel at 15 Years (2009) (and sources cited therein); Dana Clark, Jonathan Fox & Kay Treakle, Demanding Accountability: Civil-Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel (2003).

3 They include policies on Indigenous Peoples, Involuntary Resettlement, Poverty Reduction, Physical Cultural Resources, Environmental Assessment, Natural Habitat, Forests, Pesticides, Dam Safety, and International Waterways. Beyond these social and environmental “safeguard” policies, the World Bank (and other IFIs) have developed other operational policies and procedures in areas such as Project Supervision, Economic Analysis, Project Appraisal, and Access to Information, among many others, as well as policies specific to certain types of lending (e.g., at the World Bank, development policy and sector-based lending). The policies are reproduced at www.worldbank.org, and www.inspectionpanel.org.

4 See, e.g., World Bank Inspection Panel, supra note 2.

5 Resolution Establishing the Inspection Panel, para. 1, Sept. 1993, reproduced at www.inspectionpanel.org.

6 For a more detailed description and analysis of various types of mechanisms designed to give voice and rights of recourse to non-state actors in the context of law relating to international economic relations, see Lallas, Peter L., International Investment Activities: Giving Affected People Greater Voice and Rights of Recourse, in Transparency in International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement 159–216 (Nakagawa, Junji ed., 2012).Google Scholar

7 See www.inspectionpanel.org.

8 These and a couple of other basic eligibility requirements are set forth in the Panel’s governing framework, at www.inspectionpanel.org.

9 This publication is entitled Citizen-Driven Accountability for Sustainable Development: Giving Affected People a Greater Voice—20 Years On and is also posted on the Inspection Panel website.