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Publications

The IAP is committed to serving as a resource for the international community and we consistently work to document and share lessons learned from our advocacy in solidarity with affected communities and their allies. Some of these resources were developed by IAP founder Dana Clark prior to the establishment of the IAP.

Publications on the World Bank and Inspection Panel

Clark, Dana L., Fox, Jonathan, and Kay Treakle, eds. Demanding Accountability: Civil Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Clark, Dana L. The World Bank and Human Rights: The Need for Greater Accountability. Harvard Human Rights Journal 15. Spring (2002): 205-226.

Clark, Dana L. A Citizen's Guide to the World Bank Inspection Panel. Washington DC: Center for International Environmental Law, 1999.

Dana Clark, The Strategic Guide to the Inspection Panel (Friends of the Earth International and IAP 2004). The Strategic Guide is complementary to the Citizen’s Guide to the World Bank Inspection Panel, listed above. The Strategic Guide is designed to help give concrete strategic advice to claimants and their allies on how to maximize the potential impact of an Inspection Panel claim.

Publications on Development-Induced Displacement

Clark, Dana L. The Impact of the 2002 Submergence on Housing and Land Rights in the Narmada Valley. Delhi: Habitat International Coalition, 2003. PDF Version available: Cover | Text.

Clark, Dana L. An Overview of Revisions to the World Bank Resettlement Policy. Prepared for the Workshop on Engendering Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policies and Programmes in India. (New Delhi: September 12, 2002); to be published in L. Mehta (ed), Gender and the Politics of Forced Displacement (forthcoming, Sage).

Clark, Dana L. Resettlement: The World Bank's Assault on the Poor (CIEL Brief, May 2000) (edited by André Carothers).

Publications on the IFC

One Step Forward, One Step Back: An Analysis of the International Finance Corporation’s Sustainability Policy, Performance Standards, and Disclosure Policy (Halifax Initiative, with contributions from the International Accountability Project, Bank Information Center, and others).  May 2006A comprehensive assessment of civil society’s concerns with the IFC’s influential new policy framework.     

More to come...

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