Duncan Pruett
@duncan.re-course.org
Executive Director of Recourse, which works to put people and planet at the heart of development. Based in Amsterdam. Tweets are my own. www.re-course.org
As 2025 draws to a close, we look back on a year of collective action and sustained advocacy to hold international financial institutions to account. Thank you to our partners, allies, & communities who stood with us to challenge harmful finance and push for accountability. Watch our #2025Recap 👇
New @re-course.org & Trend Asia report exposes how an IFC-backed liquified natural gas project in Indonesia is violating community rights, destroying forests and driving up emissions #stopfundinggas re-course.org/newsupdates/...
Report on Tangguh LNG: Big project, huge risks
Read the report by Recourse and Trend Asia, examining the role of multilateral development banks and other financiers for the Tangguh LNG project in Indonesia.
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“It is our job to bring life, colour, democracy and legitimacy to this process.” @toveryding.bsky.social speaking truth to power on the lack of space for Civil Society participation at the #FfD4 Conference 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪 #FfD4People #SystemChangeNow #EraOfJustice
A powerful response to an outrageous approach #ffd4 x.com/cs_ffd/statu...
Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism on X: "“It is our job to bring life, color, democracy and legitimacy to this process.” @toveryding Speaking truth to power on the lack of space for Civil Society participation in the #FfD4 Conference 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪#Ffd4People https://t.co/gCiVDB4V76" / X
“It is our job to bring life, color, democracy and legitimacy to this process.” @toveryding Speaking truth to power on the lack of space for Civil Society participation in the #FfD4 Conference 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪#Ffd4People https://t.co/gCiVDB4V76
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Come and work with the wonderful @re-course.org team!
Recourse@re-course.org · last yr.⭐ Join our remote team ⭐ We are hiring a Campaign Manager to focus on sustainable renewables in the just energy transition. It's an exciting & challenging role involving research, advocacy, teamwork, and collaboration with partners around the world. Details👉 re-course.org/jobs-at-reco... #NGOjobs
This is a good time to encourage the @EU_Commission and members to do the right thing - address the #debt crisis (yes, a debt crisis), and ensure countries most indebted have a say in how to solve it by setting a new course beyond the status quo at the #FFD4 this June.
European Network on Debt and Development - Eurodad@eurodadnews.bsky.social · last yr.Public finance can help achieve the #GlobalGoals, eradicate hunger & poverty, and fight for #GenderEquality & the #climate. ❓@ec.europa.eu, will you support reforms on ✅ Sovereign #debt ✅ #UNTaxConvention ✅ Development cooperation? #FfD4 ow.ly/n0nx50VJyam cc. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
🌍 #WBGMeetings Civil Society Policy Forum Africa stands at a crossroads in its energy transition. Can #Mission300 turn on the switch for the people who need it most? 📍World Bank HQ I Building 2-220, Washington DC 🗓️ 25 April, 9-10:30am Details in the flyer below. Livestream available on the day.
EVENT #WBGMeetings Civil Society Policy Forum 📍World Bank HQ I, Washington DC 🗓️ 24 April, 9-10:30am Join us for a discussion on the International Finance Corporation safeguards: successes, policy gaps, implementation, and the new review See speakers and details in the flyer 👇
Some important though long-awaited news from the @ifcorg.bsky.social at the the start of the week of the World Bank "Spring meetings" in Washington
Recourse@re-course.org · last yr.🚨 The International Finance Corporation has just this week launched a long-awaited review of its Sustainability Framework, a set of hugely important environmental and social safeguards This is a “generational opportunity” for more sustainable global finance Read more: re-course.org/newsupdates/...
Great to see my colleagues @djw14.bsky.social and @kategeary.bsky.social kicking off one of the key debates - on "FIs" - which needs to happen as @ifcorg.bsky.social prepares to review its influential Sustainability Framework.
Daniel Willis@djw14.bsky.social · last yr.💰 A new review of @ifcorg.bsky.social's Sustainability Framework can help make trillions of $ of finance more responsible. 📖 @kategeary.bsky.social and I wrote for @devex.com on why IFC must use this opportunity to introduce a new safeguard on financial intermediary lending 👇 tinyurl.com/aw4h3dx3
This #InternationalWomensDay, let’s celebrate the women leading the way in the just #EnergyTransition across the Global South💡 From solar-powered enterprise in Kenya to microgrid initiatives in Bangladesh, women are proving that clean energy is possible 📣 @rajbhuee.bsky.social #IWD2025 #MDBs
I’m delighted to share my latest w/ @gdp-center.bsky.social colleagues @julieradomski.bsky.social, Bowen Gu & Cynthia Sanborn: Unmined Potential? Opportunities for development finance to support sustainability and inclusion in transition mineral supply chains. www.bu.edu/gdp/2025/03/... 🧵, 1/12:
This month, together with +35 members and partners, we will join the #FinanceinCommonSummit to make our voices heard, and denounce how development banks - way too often - are exacerbating the impacts of the #climate crisis while talking about sustainability and a #JustEnergyTransition.
Concerning findings here about @ifcorg.bsky.social involvement in nearly 4GW of new coal power projects in Vietnam, running counter to national JETP commitments. See new research by my @re-course.org colleagues. re-course.org/newsupdates/...
World Bank Group facilitating coal production in Vietnam
Insuring catastrophe? The World Bank Group, via it's private sector arm IFC, is facilitating more coal production in Vietnam, in spite of climate pledges.
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#Hiring We are looking for an Energy Transition Advocacy Consultant to support our clean energy campaign 📅Short term, February to end June 🌐 Remote, full-time ⌛️ Apply by 30 January Details and how to apply here ➡️ re-course.org/jobs-at-recourse #NGOjobs #EnergyJobs #ClimateJobs
#Mission300🌍 Ahead of today’s Civil Society Dialogue with the World Bank, African Development Bank, and their partners, we call for bold, inclusive & accountable leadership to ensure that Mission 300 delivers a sustainable energy future & leaves no one behind. Our demands 🧵
Billionaire Wealth Surged By $2 Trillion Last Year, @oxfaminternational.bsky.social Report Shows Not only has the rate of billionaire wealth accumulation accelerated—by three times—but so too has their power www.forbes.com/sites/josiec... #TakersNotMakers #FightInequality
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Recourse targets international finance institutions and works with communities affected by their funding. Learn more about our work.
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From #Uganda to #Mexico, our members and partners around the world are standing up for #climatejustice and resisting an extractivist model that exploits resources in the Global South to fuel over-consumption in the Global North. 👇Read their stories in our latest newsletter: bit.ly/Newsletter-1...
Re-upping this with more additions of civil society advocates and academics working on IFIs, including @katemac.bsky.social, @isabelortiz.bsky.social, @akentikelenis.bsky.social… and many more go.bsky.app/CnXtPpK
As 2024 draws to a close, @re-course.org looks back on a busy but inspiring year, working to hold public finance accountable to people and the planet Huge thanks to our partners, funders, colleagues past and present, and our allies around the world ✊ x.com/RecourseTeam... #2024Wrapped 👇📺
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The World Bank should reconsider its mega dam project in Tajikistan ->Al Jazeera | #WorldBank | More info from EcoSearch
The World Bank should reconsider its mega dam project in Tajikistan
Providing funding to a repressive regime to construct the ‘highest dam in the world’ is a recipe for disaster. On December 17 the World Bank is set to vote on financing the Rogun mega dam project in Tajikistan. If the...
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Last month, the Kachin Independence Organization completed its takeover of a border region formerly known as Special region 1. Jauman Naw, Jaw Tu Hkawng, @hpanjabrang.bsky.social & I look at what this could mean for the region’s rare earth mining industry. www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/a-new-cha...
A ‘new chapter’? The future of rare earth mining under KIO rule
Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentall...
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It’s 365 days from the nomination of Nadia Calvino as @eib.org president. In one year, plenty has changed for all to remain the same - let’s go with #EIBwrapped
In advice to 11 countries with IMF loans, @imfnews.bsky.social endorsed fossil fuel extraction “to bolster fiscal and debt positions as well as foreign reserves through exports.” Is this the climate action it boasts about? More in our report 🔖http://bit.ly/IMFclimate @federicosibaja.bsky.social
Excellent and timely report "A Safe Pair of Hands?" with findings from @re-course.bsky.social deep dive into how multilateral development banks have been spending climate finance - does it reach those who need it? does it respect rights? 👉 bit.ly/COP29cf
