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NOVEMBER 2020

PUBLIC LETTER

PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT BANKS MUST
DELIVER ON THE WORLD WE WANT
   The 10-12 November Finance in Common Summit brings together 450 public development banks which control the flow
   of more than USD 2 trillion in public money annually. On this occasion the undersigned organizations call on public
   development banks to stop funding harmful projects and protect people and the planet by putting democracy, justice,
   equity, human rights and sustainability at the heart of their operations.

   As the world faces the deepest global health, social                              past. They must seize the opportunity of the Finance in
   and economic crises in a century, intertwined with                                Common Summit to initiate a deep and rapid shift in the
   the growing destruction of biodiversity, the                                      way they operate and place democracy, inclusiveness,
   worsening impacts of the climate crisis, increasing                               equality, solidarity, and the common good at the core of
   and intersecting inequalities and threats to                                      their actions. Public money should only be spent in a way
   fundamental rights, we, the undersigned civil society                             that promotes the wellbeing of people and the planet;
   organizations, call on Public Development Banks                                   not a single penny spent should contribute in any way to
   (PDBs)1 to devote their considerable financial                                    the violation of human rights, of economic, social and
   resources and influence towards building a just,                                  cultural rights, or of Indigenous peoples rights, nor
   equitable, inclusive and sustainable future for all.                              should it allow for the destruction of nature, fuel the
                                                                                     climate crisis or deepen climate injustice by supporting
   The Covid-19 pandemic is only the latest example of the                           the industries most responsible for it.
   multifaceted crises our societies are confronted with.
   They must be addressed at the roots. The pandemic is                              Through strong participatory mechanisms with
   likely to push an additional 150 million people into                              meaningful participation of civil society at all stages from
   extreme poverty by 2021 and dramatically increase the                             the development of policies to the evaluation of their
   many vulnerabilities faced by billions of people. Women                           impacts, PDBs can create concrete avenues to ensure
   and girls, as well as those experiencing the cumulative                           the respect of human rights and promotion of
   impacts of various vulnerabilities, will be most affected.                         community-led development. Their direct and indirect
   And the worsening climate crisis and accelerating decline                         operations should promote resilience-building and the
   in biodiversity, if unabated, will further intensify poverty                      development of essential and good quality public
   and other vulnerabilities by 2030. Whatever the duration                          services, support efforts to address corruption and tax
   of the pandemic, the challenges the world is facing                               avoidance, and adhere to the principle of “do no harm” so
   require global answers to be adapted to local situations.                         that their financing does not undermine climate and
                                                                                     environmental objectives, increase the burden of debt, or
   This statement aims to highlight the important and                                expand inequalities. To ensure accountability, the highest
   interlinked issues that PDBs must address to provide a                            standards of transparency must be applied by all PDBs
   global response to both present and long-term                                     and all their intermediaries.
   challenges. PDBs should not repeat the errors of the

   1The undersigned organisations refer to PDBs in this statement with the understanding that they include, but are not limited to, financial institutions
   such as multilateral and bilateral development banks, national development banks and export credit agencies.
The current context is dire. Rapid response as well as         •   Adhere to the highest standards of transparency,
longer-term countercyclical actions from PDBs are                  provide public access to data, and engage in
needed to mitigate the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis,             meaningful public consultation where their policy
especially for the most vulnerable and marginalized                and decision-making processes are concerned.
people. These efforts must be supported by countries                Their governance structures must include civil
providing the right mandate, policies and measures and             society representatives in order to enable greater
the necessary resources to public financial institutions.          levels of public oversight over, and increased
                                                                   accountability for the use of public development
We, the undersigned civil society organisations,                   finance;
believe that achieving the Sustainable Development
Goals, limiting global warming to 1.5°C by fully
                                                               •   Develop and improve transparency, monitoring,
                                                                   oversight, grievance and accountability
implementing the Paris Agreement, and protecting                   mechanisms to actively prevent PDB investments
nature should be the key drivers of action over the                from undermining human rights. All PDBs must set
coming decade. We call on PDBs to immediately and                  up complaints mechanisms for affected or
rapidly transform their policies and financing models              potentially affected communities and rights
by adopting and urgently implementing                              defenders in order to remedy or avoid any harm;
commitments to increase financing for just, equitable
and sustainable development; promoting and                     •   Analyze the distributional impact of their
guaranteeing human rights for all, not leaving behind              programmes to make sure that they do not
the most vulnerable and marginalized communities;                  aggravate or cause economic and social
and ensuring that all finance flows contribute to the              inequalities;
development of low carbon and resilient societies,             •   Prioritize the scaling up of support for the public
aligned with 1.5°C trajectories. Our demands are                   sector especially in the area of social protection,
outlined in detail below.                                          health care, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
                                                                   and education. Such support should not be through
RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT FINANCE AND                                 privatization or public-private partnerships (PPPs);
RESPONDING TO COVID-19 TO ACHIEVE                                  rather PDBs should devote more means to the
                                                                   strengthening of national revenue authorities in
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
                                                                   developing countries including by promoting fair,
                                                                   transparent and progressive taxation;
1) Increase and restructure financing for
development                                                    •   Adhere to recognized development effectiveness
                                                                   principles for all initiatives, including blended
PDBs must drive a rapid transition to a model of
                                                                   finance, in which PDBs are involved. A binding
development that builds resilient societies, responds to
                                                                   framework with robust transparency and
communities’ needs and protects ecosystems. They must
                                                                   accountability systems must be established within
ensure that all their investments are consistent with
                                                                   PDBs to monitor the expenditure of blended
these aims, including by earmarking a substantive
                                                                   finance and ensure that it delivers maximum value
amount to funding social protection systems, robust
                                                                   for the public interest, has a proven development
public health systems and to ensuring the right to food,
                                                                   impact and is coherent with the objectives of the
water and sanitation, education, housing and access to
                                                                   2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, while
essential public services for all. This requires a change of
                                                                   respecting fundamental rights;
course in most institutions. It means a stronger
development mandate, followed by policies and                  •   Align finance provided with individual country
monitoring mechanisms that ensure that the public                  priorities which have been subject to extensive
interest takes precedence over generating financial                public consultation;
returns and serving private interests.                         •   Play a lead role in ensuring that civil society
Therefore, PDBs must:                                              organisations have access to adequate,
                                                                   predictable, diversified and sustainable financing,

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recognizing their important role as development                 SDGs. While developed countries are benefiting
      actors in their own right;                                      from increased financial means made available for

 •    Promote and participate in a permanent                          example through the decisions of central banks,
                                                                      developing countries lack fiscal space to take
      multilateral framework under UN auspices to
                                                                      similar measures and need significantly increased
      support systematic, timely and fair restructuring
                                                                      support;
      of sovereign debt, in a process convening all
      creditors (including development banks);                   •    Provide finance through the most concessional

 •    Implement strong tax policies that call for an end              measures possible, to prevent loans from further
                                                                      aggravating unsustainable debt levels in the near
      to cooperation with and financing of corporations
                                                                      future;
      and financing institutions engaged in tax avoidance
      and which are not being transparent on their               •    Do not promote austerity measures that will end
      operations, by publishing country by country                    up exacerbating the current crisis and jeopardizing
      reporting for corporations which receive public                 future generations;
      funding, and public declaration of their beneficial
      owners. PDBs must stop financing companies or
                                                                 •    Provide debt relief for these countries where there
                                                                      is outstanding and unpayable debt, while ensuring
      intermediaries based in jurisdictions with limited              that any new lending is highly concessional;
      transparency or low effective tax rates;

 •    Commit to supporting and investing in the social
                                                                 •    Support and, when their mandate allows,
                                                                      participate in a post-Covid-19 debt relief and
      and solidarity economy, which has significant                   sustainability initiative under UN auspices to bring
      economic and job creation potential, especially at              developing country debt down to sustainable
      local or regional level (SMEs, health mutualities and           levels. Such an initiative must consider countries’
      cooperatives in all sectors) but is often constrained           long-term financing needs to pursue the goals of
      by the absence of adequate public or private                    the Paris Agreement and SDGs, as well as human
      funding.                                                        rights and gender equality commitments, and
                                                                      consider specific country financing needs to
2) Increase financing and strongly support a post-                    comply with the Paris Agreement.
Covid-19 debt relief and financial sustainability
initiative
                                                                ADOPTING RIGHTS-BASED APPROACHES
Funding the SDGs and climate action were major
challenges for developing countries even before                 1) Center communities and human rights in all
Covid-19. The pandemic has negatively impacted                  future development models
domestic resources and countries’ capacities to meet
                                                                Sustainable development cannot be achieved without
basic needs of their population and to tackle the climate
                                                                respect for human rights. Public development banks, as
crisis. A new debt crisis is looming, with 44% of low-
                                                                state-owned institutions, have the obligation to respect
income countries in or at risk of debt distress even
                                                                and protect human rights in their policies and operations.
before the pandemic. Covid-19 has exacerbated levels
                                                                The principles of human rights-based and community-
of debt everywhere and particularly in the Global South,
                                                                led development must be prioritized in post-Covid-19
with countries taking on new lending to mitigate the
                                                                recovery plans as well as in all other projects. In this
effects of the pandemic even as public debt repayment
                                                                regard, PDBs should commit to:
obligations already prevent them from financing climate
action. To avoid catastrophe both within low-income              •    Fundamentally shift how development is conceived
countries and globally, a major influx in public financing is         and implemented so that human rights and local
required as part of Covid-19 recovery measures and to                 communities are at the center. Ensure full and free
build resilience against future shocks. Therefore, it is              participation and respect the right to free, prior
crucial that PDBs:                                                    and informed consent for Indigenous peoples and

 •    Scale-up finance to support developing countries
                                                                      local communities in all activities and projects;

      to tackle the climate crisis and to achieve the
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•   Develop innovative approaches to address the                  communities and are updated iteratively based on
    closing space, risks and challenges for                       changing conditions.
    communities, human rights defenders and civil
    society to meaningfully participate in decisions        2) Respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples and
    that impact their lives, livelihoods, environment       include them in decisions
    and resources. Zero tolerance policies against
                                                            The Covid-19 pandemic has deeply affected many
    threats and reprisals by PDBs and their clients
                                                            Indigenous nations and communities, causing an
    should be a basic requirement;
                                                            immediate threat to their existence and survival, as well
•   Work with local communities, social movements           as exacerbating the existing inequalities and human
    and human rights defenders to identify                  rights abuses that Indigenous peoples confront daily. It is
    investments that are aligned with international         crucial that PDBs respect Indigenous peoples as
    human rights standards, climate protection, and         distinctive political and social entities. In so doing, their
    SDGs, and reorient investments towards projects         self-determination rights and collective land rights
    that respect these standards, while ensuring that       should be respected, as well as their rights to their
    the priorities and needs of vulnerable and              cultural heritage, a healthy environment, sustainable
    marginalized people are met;                            development models, free, prior, and informed consent,
•   Recognize the responsibility of PDBs and their          and the right to participate in the development and
    clients and investors to respect and promote            implementation of policies and programs aimed to
    human rights, as set out in the UN Guiding              protect them and to build sustainable, resilient and
    Principles on Business and Human Rights. This           equitable post-Covid solutions. To this end, PDBs must:
    includes clearly articulating how PDBs will promote
    and implement a human rights-based approach
                                                             •    Work with representatives of Indigenous councils
                                                                  and governments, as well as grassroots Indigenous
    towards their stakeholders, clients and                       leaders, who are legitimately elected by the
    counterparts;                                                 communities they represent, to implement
•   Strengthen social and environmental requirements              culturally and territorially appropriate development
    through inclusion of human rights standards                   projects that include satisfying Indigenous peoples’
    enshrined in international conventions. Safeguards            self-identified development needs;
    should ensure that activities financed directly or
    indirectly by PDBs respect human rights, do not
                                                             •    Respect the special relationship that Indigenous
                                                                  peoples have with their collectively held land when
    contribute to human rights abuses, and contribute             considering funding any project. Indigenous
    to equitable, inclusive development that primarily            peoples are the best stewards of the environment,
    benefits those most in need;                                  ecosystems and biodiversity through protecting
•   Require private sector clients or partners to                 their own lands, especially when they exercise full
    respect and fully implement international human               legal collective ownership of such lands. Therefore,
    rights laws and high environmental standards,                 PDBs must not support or fund projects that
    including as a requirement for access to blended              would convert Indigenous peoples’ collective
    finance;                                                      property rights to individual ownership or projects

•   Develop common guidance for PDBs on ex ante
                                                                  which expropriate the lands of indigenous
                                                                  communities. Furthermore, PDBs must respect and
    human rights due diligence and participatory
                                                                  include Indigenous knowledge and practices as it
    impact assessments in project investments and in
                                                                  pertains to conservation, sustainable development,
    support for economic reform policies or programs.
                                                                  and climate resistance and resilience;
    This includes identification of contextual and
    specific risks, prevention and mitigation strategies,    •    Include Indigenous peoples within the framework
    and remedy in line with international human rights            of their consultation protocols aimed at obtaining
    norms. Ensure that these assessments are                      free, prior and informed consent and follow the
    developed in close consultation with affected                  consultation protocols of indigenous communities
                                                                  when and where they have been established. Given

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that consultation processes cannot and should not        management, local service provision, supply chains – are
     be realized in person during the pandemic, PDBs          chronically underfunded. The Covid-19 pandemic has
     must respect this reality and allow for longer           exacerbated these trends and is further putting the
     consultation periods through different mediums,           health, safety, and well-being of women and girls at risk.
     respecting the communication preferences of              PDBs should:
     communities;
                                                               •    Ensure that at least 85% of the entirety of their
 •   Recognizing the potential further harm to                      funding, in terms of volume, integrates gender as a
     Indigenous peoples in isolation or in recent contact           significant objective by 2025, of which at least
     within the context of the pandemic, no direct or               20% dedicated to projects with gender equality as
     indirect contact should be made with these                     their main objective. Equally, PDBs should ensure
     peoples under any circumstances. This includes                 that they do not fund any gender-ignorant policies
     development projects and initiatives or mitigation             or programmes;
     efforts that would generate unwanted contact;
                                                               •    Increase funding towards gender-responsive public
 •   Adopt a zero-tolerance policy regarding threats,               services and sectors that improve the wellbeing
     attacks and human rights violations against human              and livelihoods of women and girls and reduce
     rights defenders including Indigenous defenders                their burden of unpaid care work, recognizing that
     within the scope of intervention, whether direct or            women and girls are often the first to be
     indirect, of the financed projects;                            disadvantaged when services are privatized or fees

 •   Protect Indigenous land and environmental                      are charged for access to basic services;
     defenders given the high levels of risk of retaliation    •    Rule out discrimination of sexual and gender
     faced by Indigenous defenders protecting their                 minorities (SGMs). All PDBs must expand policies
     lands, territories and natural resources in order to           and staff training to counter discrimination against
     protect the environment from deforestation and                 LGBTQ+ people and ensure they benefit from
     poisoning of water and food sources;                           projects;

 •   Include safeguard policies and monitoring                 •    Pay special attention to women’s economic justice
     mechanisms aiming to ensure the respect for the                and rights in the funding of the Covid-19
     rights of Indigenous Peoples including reference to            recovery. PDBs should support sectors and
     the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous                 activities in which poor people and women make
     Peoples and the Escazú Agreement. These policies               up a large share of the workforce, such as
     should be developed in consultation with civil                 agriculture, health, textiles, tourism and local
     society including Indigenous Peoples and local                 manufacturing;
     communities;
                                                               •    Promote women’s economic empowerment
 •   Incorporate respect for the knowledge and                      through entrepreneurship by investing in training
     customs of Indigenous Peoples in any promoted or               on income-generating activity, facilitating
     supported health policies.                                     women’s access to relevant investments and
                                                                    promoting support mechanisms and interventions
3) Commit to policies that are gender-responsive                    with positive impacts on decent work for women;
and rule out discrimination of sexual and gender               •    Make sure that women have equal access to
minorities                                                          financial services, invest in innovative technologies
PDBs should significantly increase funding for women’s              aimed at fostering women’s access to financial
rights and gender equality and adopt an intersectional              services and design financial services for the
perspective in all their activities. Indeed, programmes             estimated 1 billion unbanked women, such as by
that are essential for many women and girls – such as               providing guarantees for local financial institutions.
sexual and reproductive health and rights, or those                 Ensure that all financial institutions remove their
focused on gender equality and empowerment, including               existing discriminatory policies and rules and
in sectors such as agriculture, water and forest                    regulations, ensuring women can access loans and

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funding regardless of their marital, family or legal           including advisory services, technical assistance,
      status; and tackle the social, cultural, and                   guarantees, budget support and support through
      economic barriers that hinder women’s access to                financial intermediaries;
      and control over financial resources and other
      assets.
                                                                •    Prioritize supporting sustainable, renewable, and
                                                                     equitable solutions in power, buildings, and
                                                                     transportation, including but not limited to just and
ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE AND                                           sustainable forms of renewable energy, energy
BIODIVERSITY CRISES                                                  efficiency savings, batteries and storage,
                                                                     interconnectors, smart-grid technologies, the
1) Ensure that all finance is climate-proof                          electrification of heat and transport, and accessible
                                                                     public transit. The ending of financial support to
To this date, PDBs from G20 countries have provided                  fossil fuels would also free up funding that could
three times more finance for fossil fuels as for clean               be redirected towards essential public services
energy each year. The largest recipients of support for              that bolster resilience and enable adaptation to
fossil fuels are not the poorest countries, and where                climate change;
fossil fuel finance does flow to lower-income countries, it
typically benefits multinational corporations over local        •    Rapidly scale up investments in universal access to
populations, while all too often violating human and                 affordable, reliable, clean and sustainable energy by
Indigenous peoples’ rights, and causing displacement and             2030. This finance should prioritize ‘high-impact’
degradation of health and the environment. At the same               countries, where access rates to electricity and
time, an increasing number of PDBs, including the                    clean cooking remain the lowest, as well as the
European Investment Bank, are taking action to exclude               mainstreaming of gender-responsive energy
fossil fuels from their financing. More institutions need to         access, off-grid and mini-grid renewable energy
make similar commitments focusing on ending financing                into energy planning and targeted financing
for coal, oils and gas.                                              approaches;

                                                                •    Support the implementation of just transition plans
Recognizing that emissions from coal, oil, and gas already           developed with affected workers and communities
in production would push the world far beyond 1.5°C of               and provide transitional support for impacted
global warming, we call on all PDBs to commit to:                    workers and community members.
 •    Increase the share of finance dedicated to climate
      action to assist countries in accelerating their         2) Catalyze climate resilient societies
      chosen low-carbon development pathways and to            Developing countries and vulnerable communities need
      adapt to the impacts of climate change, while            drastically scaled-up finance for adaptation projects and
      ensuring that all remaining funding does not             loss and damage. Research shows that the current scale
      undermine climate goals;                                 of loss and damage requires “at least USD$50 billion a
 •    By COP26, develop scientifically robust roadmaps         year by 2022, ratcheting up to USD$150 billion by
      for full alignment with the ambition of the Paris        2025 and USD$300 billion by 2030”, and losses and
      Agreement to limit warming to 1.5°C, and commit          damages are expected to get worse. Additionally, due to
      to encourage clients and financial intermediaries to     mitigation measures being seen as the most profitable,
      do the same;                                             not enough climate finance goes towards supporting

 •    Immediately halt new support for fossil fuels and
                                                               adaptation measures. As such, PDBs must:

      other electricity generation projects emitting more       •    Scale up public finance for climate action for
      than 100g CO2/kWh and, by the end of 2021,                     developing countries, while directing at least 50%
      phase out all support for fossil fuels already in the          of investments towards adaptation to address the
      pipeline. This should cover associated facilities              global shortfall, focusing in particular on the most
      (from upstream to downstream) as well as all                   vulnerable communities;
      financial instruments and forms of support

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•    Provide climate finance in the most concessional                         respecting the fundamental rights of Indigenous
      way possible and ideally as grants, not as market-                       peoples and local communities;
      rate loans and other non-concessional
      instruments;
                                                                          •    Support capacity building, and influence policy and
                                                                               regulatory changes both at national and
 •    Fully incorporate climate risk into PDB policies and                     multilateral levels to eliminate harmful subsidies
      operations;                                                              and to adopt improved planning and mitigation

 •    Ensure that all climate finance is gender-                               approaches for infrastructure development that
                                                                               result in the least potential conflict among people,
      responsive and that at least 85% of climate
                                                                               water and wildlife;
      adaptation funding also aims to achieve gender
      equality (based on OECD markers). At the same                       •    Halt support to industrial agriculture or livestock
      time PDBs must significantly ramp up gender-                             operations which fuel new pandemics, biodiversity
      responsive mitigation financing, and invest in                           loss and climate change, but instead support the
      women’s and girls’ education in order to foster                          transition to more sustainable and resilient
      participation and leadership;                                            agricultural practices, such as agroecology, and a

 •    Provide new and additional finance to address                            shift to healthier, more plant-based diets;
      ongoing losses and damages;                                         •    Develop and apply harmonized definitions and

 •    Commit to common principles for integrating                              reporting guidelines for biodiversity finance across
                                                                               PDBs and biodiversity risks and impacts in
      project-level and system-level adaptation into
                                                                               strategic and operational decisions to support a
      project appraisal cycles and broader strategies.
                                                                               transparent and accountable shift of financial flows
                                                                               and investments, public and private, to nature
3) Adopt stronger and more consistent policies to
                                                                               positive investments;
slow biodiversity loss and protect sensitive, critical
ecosystems                                                                •    Include within their climate financing priorities
                                                                               those Nature-Based Solutions which observe the
Overcoming climate change, preventing biodiversity loss,
                                                                               highest level of environmental integrity and
and suppressing zoonotic diseases are deeply intertwined
                                                                               promote community-led and gender responsive
and require holistic solutions. Despite recent progress,
                                                                               approaches, in order to achieve mitigation and
the international banking sector has yet to fully explore
                                                                               adaptation benefits from maintaining or restoring
how biodiversity policies can improve the quality of their
                                                                               healthy ecosystems and establish a share of
lending portfolios, while simultaneously avoiding
                                                                               climate financing dedicated to this purpose.
negative health consequences and improving public
confidence. PDBs have a crucial role to play to mobilize
resources and to help deliver the post-2020 Global
Biodiversity Framework. We call on PDBs to:

 •    Set operational targets for biodiversity finance in
      their multi-year strategies, aligned with the
      biodiversity targets to be agreed upon at CBD COP
      15;

 •    Categorically prohibit large scale, industrial or
      harmful direct or indirect financing in or near
      sensitive, critical ecosystems, including by

  This letter is a joint effort from a wide range of civil society organisations working on climate, environment, sustainable
  development, biodiversity, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, gender, debt resilience and other topics. It was copy-edited
  by Kathryn Tobin. Design by Matt Maiorana. Cover photo by Callum Shaw (Unsplash). In case of any questions, please get in touch
  with contact@forus-international.org.
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LIST OF SIGNATORIES
 11.11.11, Belgium                                                     BankTrack, Netherlands
 350 América Latina, Brazil                                            Both ENDS, Netherlands
 350.org Asia, Asia                                                    Bretton Woods Project, UK
 350.org Japan, Japan                                                  Building Blocks for Peace Foundation, Nigeria
 350.org, Global                                                       CARE International, France
 50by40, United States                                                 CARI Centre d'Actions et de Réalisations Internationales, France
 A Well-Fed World, USA                                                 cartONG, France
 Abibinsroma Foundation, Ghana                                         CCFD-Terre Solidaire, France
 ABIMA, Burkina Faso                                                   CEE Bankwatch Network, Central Eastern Europe
 Abong - Associação Brasileira de ONGs, Brasil                         Center for Biological Diversity, United States
 Accountability Counsel, United States                                 Center for Development Programs in the Cordillera, Philippines
 ACT Alliance EU, Europe                                               Center for Earth Ethics, USA
 ACTED, France                                                         Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), International
 Action contre la Faim, France                                         Centre for 21st Century Issues, Nigeria
 ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership, USA                        Centre for Environmental Justice, Sri Lanka
 ActionAid Denmark, Danmark                                            CFSI, France
 ActionAid International, Global                                       Change Initiative, Bangladesh
 Advocacy Network Against Irregular Migration, Sierra Leone            Christian Aid, Global
 AEGEE - European Students Forum, Europe                               CIMA ONG Ambiental, Argentina
 African Law Foundation (AFRILAW ), Nigeria                            Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development, Nigeria
 AG Globale Verantwortung (Global Responsibility), Austria             CLDA, Ivory Coast
 Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières, France                     CLEAN (Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network),
 Aide et Action, France                                                Bangladesh
 Aitec, France                                                         Climate Action Network Canada, Canada
 Al Nahda Wal Adala assosiation, Lebanon                               Climate Action Network Europe, Europe
 Albania Community Assist, Albania                                     Climate Action Network International, Global
 Alliance for Empowering rural Communities, Ghana                      CliMates, France
 Alliance Sud, Switzerland                                             Climáximo, Portugal
 alofa tuvalu, France                                                  CNAJEP, France
 Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), Philippines                                 CNCD-11.11.11, Belgium
 Angels in the Field, India                                            Coalición Regional por la Transparencia y Participación, Peru, Bolivia,
 Animal Legal Defense Fund, United States                              Brasil y Colombia"
 Antenna France, France                                                Coalition Eau, France
 Arab Watch Regional Coalition, Mena                                   Coalition Education, France
 Around the World, México y Colombia                                   Collectif des Associations Ghanéennes en France, France
 Asia Development Alliance, India                                      Collectif des Leaders pour le Développement durable de l'Afrique,
 Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development, Asia                 Ivory Coast
 Asmae - Association Sœur Emmanuelle, France                           Colores del Rincón A.C., México
 Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad, Colombia                              Community And Family Aid Foundation-Ghana, Ghana
 Asociacion Ciudadana por los Derechos Humanos, Argentina              Community Empowerment and Social Justice Network (CEMSOJ),
 Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (AIDA),        Nepal
 Latin America                                                         Community Resource Centre, Thailand
 Asociación Nacional de Ongs orientadas al desarrollo - Uruguay,       Conseil Régional des Organisations Non Gouvernementales de
 Uruguay                                                               Développement, RD Congo
 Asociación Unión de Talleres 11 de Septiembre, Bolivia                Conservation International, Belgium
 Associação Alternativa Terrazul, Brazil                               Coordination des Associations Guinéennes de France, France
 Associação de Favelas de São José dos Campos, Brazil                  Coordination Humanitaire et Développement, France
 Association d'Aide à l'Education de l'Enfant Handicapé (AAEEH),       Coordination Office of the Austrian Episcopal Conference for
 France                                                                International Development and Mission (KOO), Austria
 Association des Marocains en France, France                           Coordination SUD, France
 Association EAST, France                                              Corporación El Canelo de Nos, Chile
 Association Green Alternative, Georgia                                COSIM Occitanie-Pyrénées, France
 Association la Voute Nubienne, France                                 Council for NGOs in Malawi - CONGOMA, Malawi
 Association Morija, France                                             Counter Balance, Belgium
 Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB),             CRID, France
 Bangladesh                                                            Croatian Platform for International Citizen Solidarity, Croatia
 Association pour le Développement de Timbi Touni en France , France   Crude Accountability, USA
 Association Triangle Génération Humanitaire, France                   CSSSE, France
 ATD Quart Monde, France                                               Dalit NDO Federation (DNF), Nepal
 Attac Austria, Austria                                                Debt Free Project, Greece, Cyprus
 Attac France, France                                                  Debt Justice Norway, Norway
 AU-ECOSOCC Kenya National Chapter, Kenya                              Deepti Bhuban, Bangladesh
 Badhon Manob Unnayan Sangstha, Bangladesh                             Defi developper former informer, France
 Bagmati Unesco Club, Nepal                                            DemNet Hungary, Hungary
 Bank Information Center, USA                                          Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR), Perú

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Développement international Desjardins (DID), Canada                  Grdr, France
DEZNA A.C., Mexico                                                    Green Advocates International, Liberia
Echale Mejoramiento SA de CV Sociedad Financiera Comunitaria,         GreenFaith, Global
Mexico                                                                GRET, France
ÉCHALE, Mexico                                                        Groupe Initiaitves, France
Eco Maxei Querétaro AC, México                                        Groupe Urgence Réhabilitation Développement, France
eco-union, Spain / Europe / Mediterranean                             Growthwatch, India
Ecological Manifesto - ManEco, Bulgaria                               Grupo de Financiamiento Climático para Latinoamérica y el Caribe
EcoLur Informational NGO, Armenia                                     (GFLAC), Latin America and the Caribbean
EKOenergy ecolabel, Global                                            Haiti Survie, Haiti
Ekumenická akademie (Ecumenical Academy), Czech Republic              HAMAP-Humanitaire, France
Electriciens sans frontieres, France                                  Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Enable Lanka Foundation, Sri Lanka                                    Helping Children, Sri Lanka
Engagé.e.s et Déterminé.e.s (E&D), France                             Human Rights International Corner ETS, Italy
Entrepreneurs du Monde, France                                        Human Rights Movement
Environment Governance Institute, Uganda                              Humanity & Inclusion - Handicap International, France
Environmental Rights Action / Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Nigeria   IFAID Aquitaine, France
Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, Mexico              Immigration Développement Démocratie, France
Equipop, France                                                       INFID, Indonesia
Equitable Cambodia, Cambodia                                          Ingénieurs sans Frontières - Agrista, France
Estonian Roundtable for Development Cooperation, Estonia              Iniciativa para las Inversiones Sustentables China America Latina,
Eurodad, Europe                                                       Latin America
Extinction Rebellion NL, The Netherlands                              initiative développement, France
Fair Finance International, The Netherlands                           Innovea Development Foundation, Africa/Global
Federation Artisans du Monde, France                                  Innovea Hubs, Nigeria/Africa
Federation Christian Ogranisations International Volunteering         Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, Philippines/Southeast
Service (FOCSIV), Italy                                               Asia
Fédération des ONG au Togo (FONGTO), Togo                             Institute for Social Economic Studies - INESC, Brazil
Feedback, UK                                                          International Accountability Project, Global
Feminist League, Kazakhstan                                           International Federation of Business and Professional Women,
Femmes et Contribution au Développement - FECODEV, France             International
Fern, Belgium                                                         International Federation on Ageing (IFA), Global
FIAN Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka                                             International Network for Sustainable Energy - Europe, Europe
Focus Association for Sustainable Development, Slovenia               International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, Global
Fondation Danielle Mitterrand, France                                 International Rivers, United States / Global
Fondo Oaxaqueño Para la Conservación De La Naturaleza A.C.,           International Youth Alliance, Bulgaria
Mexico                                                                Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte, Germany
Food and Life Sécurity France, France                                 JAGO NARI, Bangladesh
Forest Peoples Programme, UK and Netherlands                          Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES),
Foro del Buen Ayre, Argentina                                         Japan
Forum des ONG pour le Développement Durable, République de            Jubilee Debt Campaign, UK
Guinée                                                                Justiça nos Trilhos, Brazil
Fórum Mudanças Climáticas e Justiça Social - FMCJS, Brazil            Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO), Kenya
Forus, Global                                                         L'Appel, France
Fossielvrij NL, The Netherlands                                        La Chaine de l'Espoir, France
Foundation for the Conservation of the Earth, FOCONE, Nigeria         Lawyers' Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous
FracTracker Alliance, USA                                             Peoples (LAHURNIP), Nepal
Free Trade Union Development Center, Sri Lanka                        Le Planning Familial, France
Freedom from Debt Coalition, Philippines                              Lebanese Coalition for Organizations of Disabled People (LCDP),
Friends of the Disabled Association, Lebanon                          Lebanon
Friends of the Earth Japan, Japan                                     Les Amis de la Terre - Togo, Togo
Friends of the Earth Scotland, UK                                     Les Amis de la Terre France, France
Friends of the Earth United States, USA                               Les Amis des Enfants du Monde, France
Fund Our Future, South Africa                                         Ligue des droits de l'Homme (LDH), France
Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), Argentina             Maison des Peuples et de la Paix, France
Fundación CAUCE, Cultura Ambiental - Causa Ecologista, Argentina      Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS), Mauritius
Fundeps (Fundación para el Desarrollo de Políticas Sustentables),     Médecins du Monde France, France
Argentina                                                             Media Initiatives for Social Change .org, Pakistan
Futur Au Présent, France                                              Mekong Watch, Japan
Geres, France                                                         Microfinance Solidaire SAS, France
Germanwatch, Germany                                                  Milieudefensie, Netherlands
Gestos (soropositividade, comunicação, gênero), Brazil                Mosan Day Care Center, South Lebanon
Global Ageing Network, USA                                            MY World México, Mexico.
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), Belgium                    National Ecological Centre of Ukraine, Ukraine
Global Health Advocates, France                                       National Indigenous Women's Federation, Nepal
Global Justice Now, UK                                                National Union on Intellectual Disability, Beirut
Global Witness, UK                                                    Nature Trust Malta, Malta
Gray Panthers, Global                                                 NGO Federation of Nepal (NFN), Nepal

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NGO Peace One Day Mali, Mali                                          Suomalaiset kehitysjärjestöt - Finnish Development NGOs Fingo ry,
Notre Affaire à Tous, France                                           Finland
Observatoire d'études et d'appui à la responsabilité sociale et       SustainableEnergy (VedvarendeEnergi), Denmark
environnementale, République démocratique du Congo                    Swedwatch, Sweden
Observatorio Ciudadano, Chile                                         Sylhet Jubo Academy (SJA), Bangladesh
Oeuvre Malienne pour le Développement des Zones Arides                Terre & Humanisme, France
(OMADEZA), Mali                                                       Terre des Hommes France, France
Oikos - Cooperação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal                        The Climate Reality Project América Latina, Latin America
Oil Change International, International                               The Climate Reality Project Canada, Canada
Olive Community Development Initiatives, Nigeria                      The Community Association for Promotion and Protection of Human
ONE, France                                                           Rights (ACPDH), Burundi
Open Briefing, UK                                                     The Oakland Institute, USA
Organisation des Femmes Africaines de la Diaspora (OFAD), France      The Peace Is Possible, México
Oxfam, Global                                                         The Sunrise Project, Australia
Oyu tolgoi watch, Mongolia                                            Tijuana Trasciende A.C, México
Pakistan Development Alliance, Pakistan                               Transnational Institute, The Netherlands
Partage, France                                                       Tripla Difesa Onlus Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Parvis, France                                                        Tripla Difesa Onlus Global No Violence, Italy
PBI France, France                                                    Tripla Difesa Onlus India, India
Peace One Day Mali, Mali                                              Tripla Difesa Onlus Italy, Italy
Peoples Federation for National Peace and Development (PEFENAP),      Tripla Difesa Onlus, Italy
Malawi                                                                Uganda Debt Network, Uganda
Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, Philippines                  UrbaMonde, France
Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, Philippines                 Urgewald, Germany
Plan International France, France                                     VedvarendeEnergi, Denmark
Planète Urgence, France                                               Venezolanos en Barranquilla, Colombia
Plataforma Internacional contra la Impunidad, International           Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR), Vietnam
Plateforme Française Dette & Développement (PFDD), France             Vumilia Africa Performances, France - Rwanda
Povod Institute, Slovenia                                             Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, India
Power Shift Africa, Africa                                            WaterAid, UK, Global
Première Urgence Internationale, France                               Wecf France, France
Protection International, International                               Widows for Peace through Democracy (WPD), UK
Public Association The Right Step, Kyrgyzstan                         Witness Radio - Uganda, Uganda - East Africa
Public Association Women's organization Alga, Kyrgyzstan              Women Development Program, Bangladesh
Rainforest Action Network, USA                                        Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF), Global
RECIDEV, France                                                       Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource
Recourse, Netherlands                                                 Management (WOCAN), United States
RESAMA - South American Network for Environmental Migrations,         Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO),
Latin America                                                         Global
Réseau Action Climat France, France                                   Women's Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC), Nepal
Réseau Camerounais des Organisations des Droits de l'Homme            World Accord - International Development Agency, Canada
(RECODH), Cameroon                                                    World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), United
Réseau Foi & Justice Afrique Europe antenne France, France            Kingdom
Results Canada, Canada                                                World Wildlife Fund, USA
Rivers without Boundaries Coalition, Mongolia                         WWF France, France
Rivers without Boundaries, Russia                                     Youth FfD Constituency, Global
Salesian Mission, USA                                                 Youth in Action on Earth, México
Savisthri National Women's Movement, Sri Lanka                        ZERO - Association for the Sustainability of the Earth System,
Secours Islamique France, France                                      Portugal
Secrétairat international de l'Eau-Solidarité Eau Europe (SIE/SEE),   Zimbabwe Council of Churches, Zimbabwe
France-Canada
Seeding Sovereignty, USA
SESOBEL, Lebanon
Sherpa, France
Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health, Canada
Sidaction, France
Sinergia Animal, Brazil
SLOGA Slovenian NGO platform for development, global education
and humanitarian aid, Slovenia
SOL, Alternatives Agroécologiques et Solidaires, France
Solidarité Laïque, France
Solidarités International, France
Soroptimist International, Global
SOS Children's Villages International, Austria
SOS Villages d'Enfants France, France
Sri Lanka Nature Group, Sri Lanka
Stand.Earth, International
SUNFO, Sri Lanka

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