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This collection of essays provides diverse perspectives on the promise, challenges, effectiveness, and future of the World Bank Inspection Panel and similar independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs) found at many multilateral development banks, bilateral financial institutions, United Nations agencies, commercial banks, private companies, and international conservation organizations. These IAMs provide local communities the opportunity to defend their human rights and protect their environment when threatened by internationally financed development decisions. Contributing their perspectives are current and past IAM members and staff, top World Bank lawyers, civil society advocates, and leading academics who have studied the mechanisms since their very beginning.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Daniel Bradlow, David Hunter, Varsha Inamyar, and Nick Paul
part 1: Reflections on Accountability
Introduction to Part 1: Conceptual Frameworks
1 Rethinking "What Counts" as Accountability
Jonathan Fox
2 Are the MDB s Accountable? Reflecting on the Independent Accountability Mechanisms of the Multilateral Development Banks
Susan Park
3 The Critical Contribution of Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAM s) to the Global Governance Paradigm
Owen McIntyre
4 The Inspection Panel and International Law
Daniel D. Bradlow
part 2: Perspectives on the Inspection Panel Experience
Introduction to Part 2: The Panel Experience
5 The Inspection Panel Early Years: (An inside Story)
Eduardo G. Abbott
6 People-Centered Accountability in International Development: Key Developments at the World Bank Inspection Panel (2014-2023)
Dilek Barlas
7 Reflections on the Role of the Inspection Panel: View from a Former Chief Counsel
Charles Di Leva
8 Reflections on the Launch of the Inspection Panel and People-Centered Accountability
David Hunter
9 The Inspection Panel's Thirty Years of Impact: What the Data Tell Us
Ramanie Kunanayagam, Mark Goldsmith, Ibrahim James Pam, Serge Selwan, Richard Wyness, Ayako Kubodera, Camila Jorge do Amarel, and Rupes Dalai
part 3: Operational Issues
Introduction to Part 3: Operational Issues
10 Three Decades of Seeking Elusive Remedies
Richard E. Bissell
11 Exiting the Disaster, Evading the Responsibility? Wadi al-Qamar - The Moon Valley
Suzan Nada
12 World Bank Forcible Resettlement: The Need for More Inspection Panel Scrutiny
Lori Udall
13 The World Bank, the Inspection Panel and Immunity
Joe Athialy
14 Ending Violence in Development Finance: Actions to Affirmatively Prevent and Stop Reprisals against Rights Defenders
Greg Berry
15 Collaborative Dispute Resolution: Five Essential Questions
Scott Adams and Aparna Mukerjee
16 The Promise of Joint Fact Finding in Enhancing IAM Effectiveness
Gina Barbieri
part 4: Critiques of IAM s
Introduction to Part 4: Critiques of IAM s
17 The World Bank's Roadmap and Human Rights Responsibilities
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and C.P. Chandrasekhar
18 "Use and Improve" Is My Accountability Mantra, despite Thirty Years of Eye-Opening Disappointments
Natalie Bridgeman Fields
19 Between Disruption and Legitimation of Development
A Critical Perspective on the Inspection Panel and a Call for More Radical Thinking within the Accountability Community
Dustin Schäfer
20 Should Decisions of Independent Accountability Mechanisms be Binding?
Lalanath de Silva and Giada Giacomini
part 5: Next Steps on Accountability
Introduction to Part 5: Next Steps on Accountability
21 Strengthening Accountability in Challenging Times: Insights from the General Counsel of the World Bank Group
Christopher H. Stephens
22 IMF Human Rights Accountability: A Pragmatic Way to Break the Deadlock
Aldo Caliari
23 Ending Thirty Years of IMF Exceptionalism: A Call for an Accountability Mechanism at the International Monetary Fund
Luiz Vieira
24 An Increased Normalization of IAM s Faces Ground Realities: Lack of Transparency Impedes Access to IAM s
Hamid Sharif
25 The River of Accountability Mechanisms: Then and Now
Suresh Nanwani
26 A Proposal for One "Super" Independent Accountability Mechanism
Daniel D. Bradlow
part 6: Conclusion
Conclusion
Daniel Bradlow, David Hunter, Nick Paul, and Varsha Iyengar
Index
