September 2026 Briefing: This GADN and ActionAid UK briefing sets out how the global debt crisis is a significant issue for gender justice, with women and girls being disproportionately hit by t...

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Debt is a major, but fixable, barrier to climate action. Action on debt could be one of the most impactful and achievable climate solutions available.

Over 130 civil society organisations warn against a return to frontloading austerity in IMF programmes.

LSE professor Ricardo Reis had said the US president’s trade war would hurt American consumers

This briefing note examines the terms, risks, policy conditions, and developmental implications of South Africa’s latest World Bank loan.

Gourinchas returns to academia as the Fund undergoes reviews of some of its main activities.

South African civil society warns planned expansion of nuclear power could lead to increased debt and higher energy costs.

World Bank’s Corporate Scorecard midterm review promises greater accountability, but gaps and opaque timelines raise doubts.

Despite focus on country mining compacts, World Bank’s new mineral and metals strategy, likely to struggle to escape previous extractionist pitfalls.

Water Forward’s focus on private capital mobilisation and big infrastructure risks excluding the world’s poorest from affordable access.

Global Partnerships Conference reflects broader shift towards private finance as development solution, whilst City of London becomes WBG’s London Financial Solutions Hub.

IEO findings echo civil society concerns about IMF’s climate work, with its focus on austerity in surveillance and lending not assessed for its impact on countries’ climate action.

World Bank’s 45 per cent climate finance target ‘retired’ after US criticism, with IEG review expected to shape future of CCAP.

IMF and World Bank fail to respond adequately to the crisis in the global economy created by fallout from US and Israel’s war on Iran and Lebanon.

This Inside the Institutions focuses on BWI’s cooperation, policy approaches and how their influence on development and macroeconomic policy have increasingly converged.

Jon Sward, Bretton Woods Project

New Borrowers’ Platform marks significant step to address key flaws and power imbalances prevalent in international financial architecture.

This issue features the BWIs response to conflict and debt, the extension of the World Bank’s Climate Change Action Plan and the merger of its accountability mechanism, the emergence of the Borrowers’...

The 2026 online Gender and International Financial Institutions (IFI) collective’s summer school, will consist of six free online sessions between 22 June and 2 July 2026.

Six free online learning sessions on international financial institutions (IFIs)'s impacts on gender and women's rights.

A new report by ActionAid, Education International and the Tax and Education Alliance, supported by 19 partners, has revealed how the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) rigid, one-size-fits-all app...

A bloc representing nearly 100 countries calls on the World Bank to extend its Climate Change Action Plan by one year amid U.S. pressure to scale it back or scrap it.

Bretton Woods Project organised a discussion on the gendered impacts of fuel subsidy removal policies promoted by the Bretton Woods Institutions (BWIs).

V20 countries push for a rethink of World Bank and IMF’s approach to debt, amid yet another deep global shock.

With release of Venezuela’s $4.6 billion in SDRs hinging on the IMF’s recognition of state authorities, CSOs call for their release and entirely sovereign use.

IMFC was unable to release a joint communique once again due to the continued fragmentation of an already strained multilateral consensus at the Fund.

The Group highlighted the severe fallout of US and Israel war on Iran and Lebanon amid constraints facing EMDEs, including tight fiscal space and high debt.

The Spring 2026 Development Committee produced separated ministerial statements revealing an institution struggling to agree on anything.

The Spring Meetings offered a chilling response to the persisting strains of global instability and multilateralism in crisis.

Bank’s role as trustee for Board of Peace’s Gaza Reconstruction and Development Fund, and Banga’s involvement in board, condemned by civil society.

As significant cuts to ODA are made, a narrative shift by rich donor countries attempts to detract attention from reduced spending.

Closed-door talks over the World Bank’s climate agenda have stalled, as the US pushes to scrap green targets and expand support for fossil fuels

MDBs must consider local currency lending a central pillar of their development mandate.

IEO’s new fiscal policy evaluation identifies flaws that strengthens CSO calls for mandatory distributional, climate and gender impact assessments.

This panel — a part of the Civil Society Policy Forum of the IMF’s Spring Meetings — will examine how IMF surveillance overlooks private-sector foreign asset accumulation and capital flight in its External Sector Assessment framework.

UK’s 2027 G20 Presidency offers a rare chance to fix systemic imbalances at little cost.

This Inside the Institutions examines the IMF’s review of its civil society engagement guidelines in the context of increasing programme scrutiny.

The Civil Society Policy Forum (CSPF) is the World Bank Group’s largest platform for engagement with civil society.