By John Mwebe In April 2021, my attention was drawn to an article highlighting the resumption of operations by the Akiira Geothermal Company Limited in Rapland and Kedong areas in Naivasha, Kenya. This public acknowledgement was of interest to me because in 2018, the Akiira Geothermal Company Limited was not…

by Anggita Indari Baca artikel ini dalam Bahasa Inggris. Terletak 30 menit hingga satu jam perjalanan laut dari Ambon, Ibukota Provinsi Maluku, Indonesia, Pulau Haruku bisa dibilang jauh dari hiruk-pikuk perkotaan. Tidak ada gedung mentereng dan lautan manusia memenuhi pusat perbelanjaan. Di pulau ini, siapapun dapat dengan mudah menjumpai masyarakat…

By Vaishnavi Varadarajan Biba Devi Thapa Magar, an 83-year-old elder woman from the Magar Indigenous community at Rishing Paltyang in Tanahu district, shares how the land her community has lived on is sacred. Her ancestors were cremated here. Worrying about the future where she and her family may be displaced…

By Carlo Manalansan “In the next few days, I plan to take actions by spreading awareness to the youth and the community in Sta. Ana.” — Charelyn Monterde, Barangay Binaliw, Cebu City Civil society and communities in Cebu, Philippines were dismayed by the impending entry of a Waste-to-Energy (WtE) project…

Organizaciones publican manifiesto por la autodeterminación Por Alexandre Andrade Sampaio La minería y utilización del litio están siendo impulsadas por Instituciones Financieras Internacionales (IFIs) sin los debidos resguardos y procesos participativos que aseguren legitimidad territorial. …

by Jocelyn Soto Medallo, Ryan Schlief, Vaishnavi Varadarajan Through its work reinforcing community-led development campaigns around the world, the International Accountability Project (IAP) knows that the impacts of climate change are disproportionately borne by communities that lack the political and economic power in the decision-making processes affecting their lands, livelihoods…

by Anggita Indari *This article is also available in Bahasa Indonesia. It takes a 30-minute boat ride from Ambon, the capital of Maluku Province, Indonesia, to reach Haruku Island. Upon arriving at the dock of Haruku, local people can easily be discovered selling sea catches and vegetables or fruits at…

by Tom Weerachat Starting in March through May 2022, around breakfast time in Haiti and Paraguay, the second cup of afternoon tea in Zimbabwe and Kenya, when people are wrapping up their work in Armenia, and right after dinner time in Indonesia and the Philippines, the new cohort of the…

Apoyan Derechos Humanos en Panama Bernardino Morales Tera Bernardino Morales Tera es una activista joven y líder indígena del pueblo Ngäbe en Panama. Bernardino es miembro del Equipo Global de Incidencia, un grupo de 8 personas reunido por International Accountability Project, para hacer investigaciones locales sobre el desarrollo y dar recomendaciones para mejorar la política del Banco Mundial…

John Mwebe — Have you ever thought about how you would react if a large-scale development project ever came to your community? In my work supporting community-led development in Africa, a fundamental necessity for any community is basic information about the project itself. What is the project? Where will it be? …

By John Mwebe — “The World Bank should consult us directly because what the government says may not truly be what we had expressed” says a community member from Lilongwe District, Malawi. …

By Elias Jika — My experience working with local communities in Malawi has taught me that the average citizen knows that they have human rights, but they don’t always know how those rights can be exercised. Months after graduating from the University of Malawi with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Technology…

By Elias Jika and Preksha Kumar — “I can speak for my people when I say that we are glad the financiers have chosen not to finance the project” said one local chief. Another person added, “There have been problems and disturbances in our lives ever since this project was introduced.” In every village I visited, the…

Jocelyn Medallo — For over two years, I listened to and documented the experiences of families in Cambodia who had been, or were soon to be, displaced by a 650km railway rehabilitation project funded by the Asian Development Bank. I was invited into demolished or considerably destroyed homes and met families living in…

Elias Jika — I first learned of the Salima Solar Project in September 2018, when local media reported that the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM), the state-owned power utility company, had signed MOUs with two private companies. …

In an environment where people might be targeted or threatened for raising critical perspectives, is a public forum the appropriate place to ask them to share their views on government-backed development projects, such as a road or dam? Are the results of such engagement likely to yield genuine and representative…

By Carlo Manalansan The Ayta Hung-ey and their relentless struggle to defend their territory paint the hills and mountains of Barangay Aranguren, Capas, Tarlac. “Our life has always been simple because our land provides us with food, water, medicine, and wood,” said Petronila Capiz-Munoz, tribal chieftain of Sitio (village) Sapang…

A whole-hearted reveal of our organisation’s exploration of values. By: May Boeve, Executive Director & Namrata Chowdhary, Chief of Public Engagement @350.org 2022 is well begun. We have entered (another!) ‘decisive year for climate justice’, and the urgency for action is pressing down upon us harder with every heat wave…

Tom Weerachat — One of my favorite memories from February, the month of love, this year was the day I met thirteen amazing young women leaders from Kachin State, Myanmar to introduce the Community Action Guide to them. Walking into the room, I could sense the fierce commitment and love they had towards…