INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL
50 South French Broad Ave 3rd FL, Asheville, NC 28801 www.inclusivedevelopment.net

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Inclusive Development International works to advance social, economic and environmental justice by supporting communities around the world to defend their land, environment and human rights in the face of harmful investment projects. Through research, casework and policy advocacy, we hold corporations, financial institutions and development agencies accountable to their human rights and environmental responsibilities and work to promote a more just and equitable international economic system.

Through research, casework and policy advocacy, Inclusive Development International holds corporations, financial institutions and development agencies accountable to their human rights and environmental responsibilities and works to promote a more just and equitable international economic system.

CASE WORK: Upon request from local community advocates, our researchers map and analyse the investment and supply chains of harmful investment projects, identify points of leverage, and provide strategic advice on advocacy. In certain high impact cases, we provide advocacy support and accompaniment to communities and their local partners. Key highlights from our casework in 2019 include: ------We produced investment chain mapping analyses and provided strategic advice to community advocates on 20 harmful projects in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Haiti, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Myanmar, Uganda and Vietnam. Our research uncovered more than 90 previously unknown international advocacy opportunities for threatened communities. ------We accompanied a community in Guinea that was forcibly displaced to make way for a gold mine through intensive mediations with the mining company. After more than 200 hours of meetings, the community and company reached agreements on water, schooling, compensation and livelihoods, as well as reforms to the company's human rights policy and practices. ------We supported 13 Guinean communities to file a complaint with the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the International Finance Corporation for financing the expansion of a harmful bauxite mine that grabbed and destroyed their land and water resources. We supported the communities to map their customary land claims and prepare for mediations with the owners of the mine. ------We supported a Ugandan and international coalition to challenge the development of the world's longest heated oil pipeline in East Africa, crossing Lake Victoria among other critical habitats and imperilling our climate. ------The UK OECD National Contact Point accepted our complaint against the London- based multi-stakeholder initiative Bonsucro for failing to hold its member, a Thai sugar company, accountable for violent evictions in Cambodia. The decision marks only the second time that a self-proclaimed industry sustainability body has been found by the OCED to be bound by its standards on responsible business conduct. ------We continued our support to 12 indigenous Cambodian communities seeking redress for land seized by a Vietnamese agribusiness company. After the company unilaterally withdrew from mediations, we helped them file a second complaint to the IFC's Compliance Advisor Ombudsman in relation to new IFC exposure to the company through two financial intermediaries. As a result, the company agreed to return to the table, with a new dialogue process scheduled to begin in January 2020. ------Our sustained advocacy led the Australian bank ANZ to agree to discuss a settlement with hundreds of families evicted from their farms for a sugar plantation financed by the bank. A mediation, facilitated by the Australian National Contact Point, is scheduled for February 2020, and if successful will be the first time globally that a bank has agreed to compensate harms caused by a client. ------We published a report, Reckless Endangerment: Assessing Responsibility for the Xe Pian Xe Namnoy Dam Collapse exposing the investment chain of the Lao project and examining the human rights responsibilities of project developers, financiers, insurers and state institutions. Our campaign website has allowed hundreds to "take action" by writing directly to entities responsible for the disaster to demand redress for those harmed. The insurers have reportedly paid the Laos government $50 million in liability insurance for the victims, one of our main goals.

CHINA GLOBAL PROGRAM: As the scale of Chinese outbound investment has expanded rapidly over the past fifteen years, our dedicated China Global Program supports civil society partners and networks to develop the knowledge and tools necessary to influence Chinese investors, policy banks and China-led development finance institutions and strengthen their social and environmental accountability. Inclusive Development International monitors and shares policy developments regarding China's overseas investment through a global listserve that we manage, as well as through publications. In May 2019, we published a second edition of our practical resource guide Safeguarding People and the Environment in Chinese Investments. This edition added new commentary on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the host of guidelines that have been published regarding responsible financing and investment in BRI countries, new institutions such as the recently established China International Development Cooperation Agency, and new guidelines applying to agriculture, contracting and green finance. We also convened several regional workshops and seminars on Chinese overseas investment trends and influencing strategies in Africa and Southeast Asia.

POLICY ADVOCACY: We advocate at the global, regional and institutional level for stronger standards and accountability mechanisms governing business and development-related human rights and environmental harms. In 2019, we continued to lead civil society efforts to reform the International Finance Corporation's opaque and unaccountable financial intermediary lending strategy, worth some $57 billion. This campaign led IFC to adopt its new Green Equity Approach, which set a new standard in the banking sector. As of July 2019, IFC is no longer investing in banks that do not have a plan to exit coal, and its existing equity clients must reduce coal investments by 50% by 2025 and to zero by 2030. IFC further strengthened the policy in response to our advocacy by expanding the range of companies, projects and financing instruments that count towards coal exposure. The OECD published new guidance on responsible business conduct for the banking sector, which Inclusive Development International contributed to through submissions and meetings. The guidance strengthens the human rights responsibilities of banks in corporate lending and makes particularly important clarifications on what role a bank should play in remediating harms.

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