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CEE Bankwatch Network
About: Bankwatch’s mission is to prevent the environmentally and socially harmful
impacts of international development finance, and to promote alternative solutions and
public participation.
Bankwatch states that it achieves its mission by doing the following:
• To create public awareness about the activities of international financial
institutions (IFIs) in central and Eastern European countries and their social and
environmental impacts.
• To promote public participation in the decision making process about the policies
and projects of the IFIs, at the local, national and regional levels.
• To help non-governmental environmental organisations and citizen groups to
monitor what the IFIs are doing in central and Eastern Europe.
• To change – or stop – the environmentally and socially destructive policies and
projects of IFIs in central and eastern Europe, and to promote alternatives.
• To cooperate with environmental citizen organisations in order to stop the
destructive activities of transnational corporations, and to limit their overall
impacts on the environment in central and eastern Europe.
European Commission Funding
The European Commission described the work programme that received funding as
follows:
“The overall objective of CEE Bankwatch Network is to ensure that public
money distributed via the EU funds or the International Financial
institutions is used in environmentally and socially sustainable ways and
that it serves the public good.”
Source Funding, £, Calendar year 2009
CEE Bankwatch Network 376,203
Total 376,203
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