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Financing for Sustainable Development
In collaboration with its partners, the Forus network works to shape a different economic paradigm which respects people and planet.
Finance in Common Summit
The Forus network together with a coalition of civil society organisations has been calling on Public Development Banks to transform their financing models and to adopt more transparent and inclusive consultative processes at all stages of their decision-making to ensure they can actively contribute to addressing and preventing increased climate and environment damage, debt burden and inequalities.
New Financing Models
A new system of global economic governance is needed which will promote equality and common but differentiated responsibilities between countries for the global commons. It should act decisively to address issues such as debt, illicit financial flows, global liquidity and financial stability among others.
Human Rights in development
Forus is calling for the adoption of new approaches to economic development that prioritise human rights and planetary well-being over financial interests and economic growth, the creation of more robust, just, ethical and equitable social-ecological economies, and a rapid shift away from the current, dominant growth-driven economic paradigm.
Download Forus’ study and toolkit on Engaging Public Development Banks
The reports are based on CSO engagement with African Development Bank; Asia Development Bank; and the Inter-American Development Bank. The Engaging Public Development Banks (PDBs) study and toolkit intends to assist Forus members and CSO partners to understand entry points and strategies to engage PDBs at local, national and regional/global levels. The toolkit provides information and case studies to demonstrate challenges, opportunities and lessons-learned from CSO representatives and local activists who have been at the forefront of struggles.
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Discover Forus’ New Development Bank Fact Sheet
The New Development Bank (NDB), established by the original BRICS nations – Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has steadily expanded its membership and reach in recent years. This NDB fact sheet looks at how the NDB operates, the main focus areas of NDB-funded development projects, what it supports, NDB policies, as well as the future directions of the NDB.
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2023-09-07
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2023-06-20
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2024-11-01
Engaging Public Development Banks - StudyCase Studies of the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank
2023-09-04
Civil Society Declaration Finance in Common Summit 2023As the world’s Public Development Banks (PDBs) gather for the Finance in Common Summit in Cartagena, Colombia, over 100 civil society organizations, communities and human rights defenders from more than 50 countries have joined forces in calling on PDBs to move from words of good intent to concrete actions that center communities, with people - not profit - at their heart.
2022-10-19
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS JOINT STATEMENT ON THE THIRD FINANCE IN COMMON SUMMIT.THE THIRD SUMMIT OF PDBS SHOULD PRIORITIZE INVESTING IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO GO BEYOND A JUST RECOVERY AND MOVE TOWARDS BUILDING A JUST, EQUITABLE, INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD FOR ALL, PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.
2021-10-18
“Transparency, Inclusiveness and Sustainability”: 3 things Public Development Banks must not forget about at this year’s Finance in Common Summit.Over 500 public development banks will convene on the occasion of the second edition of the Finance in Common Summit on October 19-20 in Italy, ahead of the Italian Presidency of the G20 and the COP26 conference on climate change. Ahead of the summit, a coalition of civil society organisations is demanding from public development banks that they transform the way they work for it to be based on human rights, community-led development as well as climate and social justice principles.
2020-12-24
The Big Changes needed in Financing for Sustainable DevelopmentThe cumulative impacts of converging international crises including the coronavirus health pandemic, the accelerating climate and biodiversity crises, have contributed to an extremely challenging global macro-economic context and there is now a strong possibility of a prolonged sharp slowdown in global economic activity.
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2020-11-09
Finance in Common Joint CSO StatementThe 10-12 November Finance in Common Summit brings together 450 public development banks which control the flow of more than USD 2 trillion in public money annually. On this occasion the undersigned organizations call on public development banks to stop funding harmful projects and protect people and the planet by putting democracy, justice, equity, human rights and sustainability at the heart of their operations.
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2026-02-15
New Development Bank (NDB) - Fact SheetThe New Development Bank (NDB), established by the original BRICS nations – Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has steadily expanded its membership and reach in recent years. This NDB fact sheet looks at how the NDB operates, the main focus areas of NDB-funded development projects, what it supports, NDB policies, as well as the future directions of the NDB.
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