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Egyptian CSOs send concerns about proposed Safeguards framework to World Bank Executive Directors

On July 27, 2014, ahead of the scheduled World Bank Board meeting to discuss the Bank’s newly proposed draft Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework, Egyptian civil society organizations sent an urgent letter to their representative on the Board of Directors, Dr. Merza Hasan, urging him to recommend that some critical changes be made to the draft.

The letter touched on several issues but, most prominently, expressed concern about the Bank giving borrowing governments too much responsibility for applying the safeguard standards, and argued that it could lead to a loss of accountability and a severe lack of protection for the poor and the environment.

Read the letter here:

Egyptian CSO Letter to World Bank EDs on Safeguards draft, Various CSOs, July 24, 2014

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July 24, 2014

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