IAP always works in collaboration with other civil society and grassroots organizations.  Below is a list of colleagues who also work at the intersection of human rights, the environment and accountability in the context of  development.

Accountability Counsel seeks to use, strengthen, and create accountability systems for local communities and international entities to ensure that social and environmental standards are met in international finance and development projects.  We work toward this mission through trainings and claim support for communities, and policy advocacy to make the activities and policies of accountability mechanisms more independent, fair, transparent, professional, accessible, and effective.

ActionAid Pakistan envisions a world without poverty in which every person can exercise his or her right to a life of dignity. They believe that inequality in power and resources and social injustice is the major cause of poverty and denial of fundamental rights. Their goal is to work for an equitable sharing of power and resources within families, communities, the larger society, nationally and across border.

Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.

Asociacion Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (AIDA) combines the expertise of public interest environmental law organizations from nine countries in the Americas, and provides a forum for these groups to jointly design and apply solutions to shared environmental problems. AIDA's mission is to empower citizens to protect human health and the environment by developing and enforcing national and international environmental laws and mechanisms for citizen participation.

Bank Information Center is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization that aims to empower citizens in developing countries to influence World Bank and other Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) activities in a manner that fosters social justice and ecological sustainability. BIC advocates for greater citizen participation, transparency, and public accountability.

BankTrack is a network of civil society organizations tracking the operations of the private financial sector and its effect on people and the planet. BankTrack aims to help hold the private financial sector strictly accountable to society at large, and ensure its operations contribute to creating healthy and just societies and preserve the ecological well-being of the planet.

Bretton Woods Project works to monitor and reform the World Bank and IMF.

Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale works in Italy to enhance the possibilities of civil society and Parliament to monitor and influence lending activities and policies of the World Bank. Its work mostly focuses on projects where there is significant involvement of Italian transnational corporations, or where policies and projects of the World Bank contradict or undermine international commitments taken by the Italian government.

Center for Human Rights and the Environment is a non-profit organization based in Argentina that aims to build a more harmonious relationship between the environment and people. Our work centers on promoting greater access to justice and guaranteeing human rights for victims of environmental degradation.

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest law firm committed to strengthening international and comparative environmental law and policy around the world. CIEL is based in Washington, DC and also has an office in Geneva.

Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR) provides legal assistance to landowners in Papua New Guinea affected by large scale environmentally destructive projects including industrial logging, mining and oil palm plantation developments and works to promote community-based natural resource management through promotion of effective law and policies.

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) works to promote and protect the right to housing for everyone, everywhere. COHRE's work involves Housing Rights Training; Research and Publications; Monitoring, Preventing and Documenting Forced Evictions; Fact-finding Missions; Housing and Property Restitution; Women's Housing Rights; Active Participation and Advocacy within the United Nations and Regional Human Rights Bodies and activities in all regions of the South.

The Corner House carries out analyses, research and advocacy with the aim of linking issues, of stimulating informed discussion and strategic thought on critical environmental and social concerns, and of encouraging broad alliances to tackle them.

EarthRights International is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of human rights and the environment, our earth rights. Earth rights are those rights that demonstrate the connection between human well-being and a sound environment, and include the right to a healthy environment, the right to speak out and act to protect the environment, and the right to participate in development decisions. Earth Rights has offices in Washington, DC and Changmai, Thailand.

EarthWays Foundation promotes sustainable vision and action for the earth and humanity, "a vision for the future that all living things can share." Through projects and educational events, they serve as a catalyst for personal growth, global awareness and social and environmental activism. Earthways develops projects, which eventually spin off and become independent organizations that work alongside and cooperatively with Earthways.

ECA Watch is an organizing and outreach mechanism of the larger international campaign to reform Export Credit Agencies (ECAs). Organizations participating in the campaign include non-governmental organizations and bodies working on issues related to the environment, development, human rights, community, labor, and anti-corruption.

Environmental Defense is an NGO dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem.

Forest Peoples Programme is an NGO, established in 1990 by the World Rainforest Movement specifically to work with forest peoples in their struggle to survive the global forest crisis. FPP supports forest peoples’ rights to determine their own futures, to control the use of their lands and to carry out sustainable use of their resources.

Friends of the Earth – International is an autonomous international environmental network with affiliates in 63 countries, dedicated to defending the environment and championing a healthy and just world.

Friends of the River Narmada is an international coalition of organizations and individuals. The coalition is a solidarity network for the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement) and other similar grassroots struggles in India.

Global Rules, Rights and Responsibilities (GRRR Network) is a global civil society coalition working to promote sustainable development through clearly articulated and enforceable rights, rules and responsibilities for international and private financial institutions and transnational corporations. By strengthening the rights, rules and responsibilities for local communities, indigenous peoples, workers, women and children and the environment, more sustainable and beneficial investment will result in the developing world.

Habitat International Coalition is an independent, international, nonprofit movement of some 400 organizations and individuals working to secure housing and improve their habitat conditions for communities.

IFIwatchnet connects organizations worldwide that are monitoring international financial institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks.

International Network on Displacement and Resettlement is composed of professionals working to assure that people who are forcefully displaced become beneficiaries rather than victims of development.

International Rivers supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. They work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.

International Campaign for Tibet works to promote human rights and democratic freedoms for the people of Tibet. Founded in 1988, ICT is a non-profit membership organization with offices in Washington D.C., Amsterdam and Berlin.

Japan Center for Sustainable Environment and Society is a Japanese NGO conducting policy research and advocacy. Their goal is to realize a sustainable environment and society in Japan and around the world through broad participation and cooperation of citizens and professionals.

Mekong Watch is a Japanese NGO based in Tokyo. They combine research and advocacy to address and prevent the negative environmental and social impacts of development in the Mekong Region. They are especially concerned about the lack of consultation with affected communities in development planning and implementation and the role Japanese financing. By contacting communities directly, Mekong Watch tries to bridge the information and communication gaps between them and decision-makers in Japan.

Narmada Bachao Andolan is a national coalition of environmental and human rights activists, scientists, academics, and project-affected people, working to stop several dam projects in the Narmada Valley. While they do not have their own website, their struggle is documented at www.narmada.org, a site maintained by the Friends of the River Narmada.

NGO Forum on ADB is an Asian-led network of civil society organizations that monitor the Asian Development Bank's projects and policies. NGO Forum is campaigning for good governance, accountability, and social and environmental justice for Asia and the Pacific.

Odious Debts serves as an internet source for information challenging the legitimacy and legality of Third World debt. Odious Debts Online is produced by Probe International, which monitors and exposes the devastating effects of international projects financed by Canadian tax dollars.

Across 28 countries, Oxfam Australia works in partnership with local communities to overcome poverty and injustice. They support people from these communities who are negatively affected by development bank projects and work together with non-government organisations to provide information about the development banks and ensure that local people have their voices heard.

Pacific Environment protects the living environment of the Pacific Rim by strengthening democracy, supporting grassroots activism, empowering communities, and redefining international policies.

Rainforest Action Network's Global Finance Campaign works to redirect the global economic system away from environmentally and socially destructive activities and into clean, sustainable, and socially just alternatives.

The Refugee Studies Center at Oxford University conducts research and publishes series about refugee issues, including the Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS).

The Ruckus Society works with a broad range of communities, organizations, and movements to facilitate the sharing of information and expertise that strengthens the capacity to change our relationship with the environment and each other.

Students for a Free Tibet works in solidarity with the Tibetan people in their struggle for freedom and independence. They are a chapter-based network of young people and activists around the world. Through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action, SFT campaigns for Tibetans’ fundamental right to political freedom. Their role is to empower and train youth as leaders in the worldwide movement for social justice.

Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance was established in 1991 to focus on issues concerning the natural environment and local communities within the Mekong Region. TERRA works to support the network of NGOs and people's organisations in Burma, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam and Thailand, encouraging exchange and alliance building and drawing on the experience of development and environment issues in Thailand.

Urgewald is a German human rights and environment organization that monitors German involvement in large-scale projects in developing countries and seeks to assist organizations fighting for social justice and the protection of natural resources.

The World Commission on Dams (WCD) was an independent, international, multi-stakeholder process which was convened in 1998 to address the controversial issues associated with large dams. Its work culminated in the publication of a report in 2000 called Dams and Development, which provides “an innovative framework within which to examine dams ­ both existing and planned.” The website has the final report, as well as significant background research and materials.