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From Proposals to Complaints, Participatory Monitoring is Essential
In the early 2000s, members of local farming communities in Cajamarca, Peru raised a red flag over the nearby Yanacocha Gold Mine. The complainants alleged that as a result of the gold mine, the community’s health and...
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Complaints in Climate Change Projects: A look at adaptation and mitigation grievances
Is there a difference between complaints and grievances in adaptation projects and mitigation projects? Should a different set of criteria be considered in designing grievance systems for climate adaptation and...
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Defending Rights and Accessing Remedy: Learnings from Conversations with Civil Society based in West Africa
West African countries, in particular those in the Niger Basin, are some of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change due to high exposure to extreme weather events such as droughts, high dependence on ecosystem...
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About the IRM
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The IRM’s mission is to address complaints from affected people and provide recourse in a way that is fair, effective and transparent, and enhance the performance of GCF’s climate funding. The IRM also accepts...
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Enhancing our knowledge on the design and administration of effective grievance mechanisms with the GRAM Community of Practice
In 2018, a lawsuit was brought against Gemfields, a gemstone company best known for its Fabergé jewelry brand, on behalf of a group of artisanal ruby miners and local villagers living near its Montepuez mine in...
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Historic Recognition of the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
For the first time in history, the UN Human Rights Council has recognized the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a fundamental human right. A decade ago, 149 out of 193 countries had included...
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Accessing Redress: Public interest law organizations, communities and grievance redress mechanisms
A new global agreement on climate change was adopted at the climate summit in Glasgow two weeks ago. World leaders and climate negotiators signed up to maintain the 1.5C degrees global temperature ceiling and committed...
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Fire! Fire! But Who’s There to Put it Out?
What do you do when you detect a fire? You call the fire department. You call them because you know they will come and extinguish the fire and save lives. You call them because you know which number to dial. But what if...
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The IRM at COP26: Discussing accountability and dispute resolution in climate projects
When the time comes and our bodies are buried under the ground, that’s when our souls embark on a journey in the sea. As our souls swim in the water, they learn from our ancestors’ knowledge, and later on, they pass on...
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History of the IRM Pre-Cases
A pre-case is a communication from an external party to the IRM and information received by the IRM that is registered in the Case Management System as a pre-case and may or may not mature into a complaint. Pre-cases...
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Case register
Overview
The IRM is committed to transparency and accountability, and recognises the importance of public access to its case information, subject to any requests for confidentiality from any of its complainants or...
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Reflections on Establishing and Scaling up the IRM: The Vision
This column was prepared by Dr Lalanath de Silva, Head of GCF's Independent Redress Mechanism. It is the first of a series of reflections on his five years serving as head of the mechanism.
After 5+ years at the...
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The GCF will Never Tolerate Retaliation
In June 2012, community members living around the Alaknanda River in Uttarakhand, India, filed a complaint with the Inspection Panel of the World Bank. In the complaint, they raised social, cultural and environmental...
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Advisory reports
Overview
The IRM is mandated to report to the Board on lessons learned and insights gained from handling cases and from good international practices. Based on these lessons and insights, the IRM may recommend the...
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Grievance Mechanisms as independent but integral parts of their parent organization: GRAM Partnership Webinar with UNDP-SECU
The relationship between a Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) on the one hand, and those who manage the parent institution on the other, can be a challenging one. Appropriately managing that relationship is key to...
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Lalanath de Silva, Head of the IRM
Dr Lalanath de Silva is the Head of GCF's Independent Redress Mechanism. He has extensive experience in legal affairs, with more than 30 years of service as a practicing...
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IRM Community-Company Mediation Training: Building the capacity of GCF Direct Access Entities to handle complaints in complex contexts
Following a toxic mudslide by a local mining company, residents of Yuso Village in southern Equatania filed a complaint with the grievance mechanism of the Regional Development Bank (RDB). In their complaint, the...
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GRAM partnership
GRAM partnership
In 2019, the IRM formed the Grievance Redress and Accountability Mechanism (GRAM) partnership to offer leadership, a learning and knowledge platform and a meeting space to an increasing number of GRAMs...
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IRM Gender Strategy Note
The IRM has prepared a gender strategy note and is committed to implementing a gender responsive approach consistent with the GCF’s Gender Policy. This approach recognises the particular needs, priorities, power...
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2021 Stakeholder Survey
In April 2021, the IRM sent out a survey to various stakeholders who have interacted with the IRM (including complainants, requesters, civil society representatives, accredited entities, GCF colleagues, and others). The...
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2019 Annual report
The IRM is excited to release our 2019 Annual Report. This report gives an overview of last year's activities, facts, figures and other details about our work.
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2018 Annual report
This report gives an overview of 2018 activities, facts, figures and other details about our work.
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2017 Annual report
This report gives an overview of 2017 activities, facts, figures and other details about our work.
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IRM 2021 Annual Report
The IRM is now widely acknowledged as a mechanism that is setting new global standards in the field. The IRM's 2021 Annual Report gives an overview of its activities in 2021 and plans for 2022.
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IRM: Opening doors to Accountability and Redress
18 Jun 2019
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R0001 Argentina
In 2018, the IRM processed a reconsideration request filed by Argentina in relation to FP057 – Climate Action for Rural Development: Community-based Adaptation and Mitigation. FP057 was denied funding by the Board at...
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