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... For situations like this, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other financial institutions have established Grievance ... the project, you can file a complaint with a GRAM.  The IRM of the GCF is such a GRAM. Good management of your ... and on the final outcomes.  For this purpose, the GCF IRM has two tools. First, we have put in place a modern ...

... India.  Despite studies showing significant social and environmental impacts, the IFC continued to provide ... January 2015, the CAO released a  monitoring report  confirming that the IFC had still not taken meaningful steps to ... whether in the U.S. or India, places a heavy resource and procedural burden on complainants. Court proceedings are ...

... elements to successfully operating them? Answers to these and many more questions were discussed at a three-day-workshop held by the IRM between 7 and 9 October in Songdo, South Korea. In total ... this event. The workshop was held and organized by the IRM and facilitated by David Fairman, an external consultant ...

... Rights Council has recognized the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a fundamental human right.  ... affected to national parks under threat by illegal poachers and loggers.  However, a right which cannot be protected or ... of environmental rights or supporting environmental procedures and standards are increasingly allowing those ...

The pandemic has posed great challenges for individuals and ... presented by Covid-19. After the success of the IRM’s first virtual outreach event in the Pacific region , the IRM team has been committed to further exploring the virtual ...

... to call the utility company to find out what is going on and when power will be restored? But to do so, you would ... they knew about the GCF’s Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The IRM would not be able to do its job unless people who have ...

... Green Climate Fund Building transparency, accountability and keeping good faith for a new institution is undoubtedly a daunting and challenging task. Various mechanisms exist and are ... GCF remains faithful and accountable to its policies and procedures speaks to the very essence of why independent ...

... The project staff, therefore, go to the project site and inform the villagers there that the project may require ... the unique functions of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is the ability to ... Guidance on FPIC see, http://greenclimate.fund/documents/guidelines-indigenous-peoples-policy (visited 6th November ...

Carlos was struggling to handle a complaint he had received as the complaint handling ... had enrolled for a training course conducted by the GCF’s IRM on grievance redress mechanisms, and within two weeks he ... carried the logo of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the GCF, Consensus Building Institute, and the ...

... the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) appointed Andrea Repetto Vargas as the new Director of its ... and Investigation Mechanism (ICIM, or MICI).  The IRM has a staff member who worked with MICI before, and so the IRM hopes that this creates an even greater opportunity to ...

Our dear and beloved colleague Leonardo Paat Jr., Environment and ... on 5th August.  We at the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) offer his wife Carol, his daughter Loise, his sister ... of ESS.  Leo was one of the very first GCF colleagues IRM staff met when they joined the GCF.  He was the one who ...

Does your organization have a Grievance Redress and Accountability Mechanism (GRAM) in place? How is your ... conference hosted by the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) that is scheduled for ... GRAM is not an easy task. Surveys conducted by the IRM concluded that many entities accredited by the GCF have ...

Three staff members of the GCF’s IRM in South Korea realized that they were all keen on ... One of them started a WhatsApp group called “Vegefoods” and posted a recipe of a vegetarian dish made with local ... partnership to conduct in 2021. Subsequently, the GCF’s IRM convened the GRAM partners to develop a 2021 work plan ...

... June 1, the Green Climate Fund held a workshop to empower and support the Fund’s Direct Access Entities (DAEs) – national and regional entities nominated for accreditation to the GCF ... their capacity across several programmatic areas. IRM held one plenary session and two clinic sessions during ...

Safeguarding Transparency at the GCF Understanding the work of the IDP and IAP To ensure the highest ... Integrity Unit (IIU), and Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM). The head of the IRM is the current chairperson of the IAP, as selected by ...

The Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) recently submitted its first Advisory Report , together ... contained four recommendations on how the GCF can prevent and mitigate sexual harassment in GCF projects and ... with minors.” The Inspection Panel was not able to confirm the number of cases of child sexual abuse connected to ...

Many private, public and civil society sector organisations are establishing ... To respond to these demands, the GRAM partners ( GCF IRM ,  the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank’s ... of the GRAM community of practice is available in the IRM’s previous blog .   A virtual gathering of Grievance ...

... what would you do? For example, if you were moved from the land that you had occupied since birth, the land that your ... people. In June 2020, the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) partnered with OHCHR ... While independent accountability mechanisms like the IRM of the GCF have an important role to play in providing ...

... that as a result of the gold mine, the community’s health and livelihoods had been greatly affected due to water ... informative approach, and which are often used to simply affirm a limited view of the project from the company ... used within any high-impact development project.  For the IRM and the GCF at large, participatory monitoring holds ...