This article summarizes IAP’s core area of interventions on corporate accountability in Uganda including providing information to civil society and communities on the roles of public and private actors in development investments; supporting community-led research to strengthen local campaigns toward governments and companies and; facilitating access to decision-making spaces for affected communities.

In the absence of measures to ensure that communities’ priorities are front and center, IAP has witnessed that purportedly “green” and “cleaner” projects — even those projects aimed at mitigating climate change — are not exempt from posing serious human and environmental rights abuses.

The Salima Solar Power Project-affected community in Malawi raised concerns with JCM Power, the project company and project financiers Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), but the mediation process lacked a genuinely independent facilitator.

Through collaborative efforts and knowledge exchange with prominent organizations like ESCR-Net, NAMATI, and NYU Bernstein, IAP has developed tools and approaches that are being used in more than 20 countries to build community-led campaigns.

Through community-led research, the Lepcha Indigenous community in India preserves oral histories and sustainable customary practices. Their commitment stands strong against the tide of hydropower projects, relentlessly mooted in their land for the last three decades

For the past two years, IAP has supported the Paten community in Uganda to voice their concerns over the unlawful acquisition of their land for the implementation of the Wadelai Irrigation scheme. The community then filed a complaint with the AfDB’s Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRM), resulting in a compliance report that exposed the AfDB’s failures.