Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

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FPP E-Newsletter Special Edition on Safeguards, April 2013 (PDF Version)

Forest Peoples Programme

29 April, 2013

As multiple international agencies adopt and update their social and environmental policies, this special edition Forest Peoples Programme E-Newsletter reviews experiences of communities and civil society with the safeguard policies of various international financial institutions.

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The IDB, Camisea and Peru: A sorry, sorry safeguards story

29 April, 2013

Gas pipeline construction in the Peruvian Amazon as part of the controversial Camisea gas project, partly funded by the IADB

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) played a catalytic role in the development of the Camisea gas project in the Peruvian Amazon in 2002/2003 despite having no specific policy for projects impacting indigenous peoples. When the Bank adopted one in 2006, a key provision on isolated peoples was ignored when it made a US$400m loan the following year. Meanwhile, attempts by the Bank to ‘protect’ a reserve for indigenous peoples in ‘voluntary isolation’ directly impacted by the Camisea project have proven almost entirely ineffective and are now being further undermined by plans to expand operations within the Reserve. The IDB is required to approve these plans and could do so imminently.

GUEST ARTICLE: Peruvian government highway project threatens Isconahua indigenous people’s survival

18 February, 2013

By Robert Guimaraes Vásquez (Regional Group for Monitoring Megaprojects in Ucayali, Peru, GRMMU)

A proposed Peruvian government highway project to join the Peruvian Amazon town of Pucallpa (Ucayali region) with the Brazilian town of Cruzeiro do Sul (in Acre State) is threatening the survival of the Isconahua indigenous people who live in “voluntary isolation”. In November 2012, the government of Peru, through PROVÍAS NACIONAL (an agency of the Ministry of Transport and Communications), gave the go-ahead for the implementation of the project, IIRSA Centro, which thus far has advanced as far as the second stage feasibility study.

Letter to Presidential Office (Spanish only) (1.1 MB)

Carta al Despacho Presidencial (1.1 MB)

FPP E-Newsletter February 2013 (PDF Version)

FPP

18 February, 2013

Dear Friends,

Whenever someone remarks that a solution is being frustrated by ‘lack of political will’, I automatically ask myself: whose is the political will and what are the interests pushing for the opposite?

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Holding the IDB and IFC to account on Camisea II A review of applicable international standards, due diligence and compliance issues

Tom Griffiths

3 September, 2007

A detailed report for Amazon Watch on the application of IDB and IFC safeguards in the processing of the second phase of the Camisea Mega-Project in the Peruvian Amazon finds serious shortcomings and raises questions about failed due diligence

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A brief independent guide to the Inter-American Development Bank's New Operational Policy on Indigenous Peoples (OP-765)

5 June, 2006

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is the largest public multilateral lender in Latin America, enabling huge infrastructional projects. This briefing evaluates the IDB's policy on respecting the rights of indigenous peoples and protecting their territories from destructive development.

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