IAP works for a world in which all people can shape the decisions that affect their homes, environment and communities.

For more than 2 decades, IAP has been strengthening community-led campaigns to achieve local and global impacts.

For more than 2 decades, IAP has been strengthening community-led campaigns to achieve local and global impacts.

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Members of the Paten community in Pakwach District, Uganda, marched through the Wadelai Irrigation project area

The Paten Community in Uganda persists in seeking resolutions for outstanding issues related to the development of the Wadelai Irrigation Project, despite African Development Bank’s assertion that these concerns have been addressed through mediation during the project suspension.

International Accountability Project and partners host a community-led research training in Nepal.

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.

Resilient Communities in Malawi Secure Improvements, But Complaints Remain Unaddressed by Company and Government

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

IAP analyzed the current practices of the Caribbean Development Bank with the international best standards and norms on access to information, revealing the bank’s weak performance on transparency, accountability, and inclusion.