The information exchange among governments, companies, communities and civil society must radically change in order to improve how a community can participate in, if not lead, the development decisons affecting them. Access to Information is a key human right and unfortunately, one that it is rarely realized in the development process and is indispensable for allowing communities to make the future their own.
The International Accountability Project (IAP) and the Early Warming System track the public and private actors involved in develop finance, distributing this information to the communities and civil society partners likely to be impacted. To expand access to informaiton in development, IAP conducts analyses in the policy and practices of development actors and recommends actions to ensure greater transparency, which can in turn strengthen the exchange of information from communities, local civil society and social movements back to other development actors.
IAP trains, advises and accompanies communities and local civil society through community-led reserach iniatiives to set or enhance their locally led campaigns and the communication exchange with other development actors. IAP plays critical role improving the exchange of information between the communities and civil society locally and the government, companies and investors operating nationally and internationally.
