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Grants
7
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Total Awarded
$911,000
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Years
1990 - 2014
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Categories
Grants
Friends of the Earth (FOE) will work to strengthen civil society in countries experiencing significant negative environmental and social impacts from Chinese overseas investments. Under the grant, FOE will convene an international "skills share" meeting, replicating a 2007 event that brought together 50 participants from around the world. The event will allow the exchange of lessons learned, and explore areas of collaboration across this emerging civil society network.
To promote transparency, accountability, and environmental sustainability in international financial institutions and the financial marketplace (over three years).
To support a meeting of experts from NGOs and academic and international institutions to craft a consensus plan on alternatives to unrestrained global capital mobility.
To monitor the environmental impact of private capital flow into developing countries, and to encourage environmentally sustainable investment opportunites.
To promote changes in International Monetary Fund policy to include environmental criteria in lending decisions (over three years).
To support a Manila office and for making small grants to Philippine conservation agencies (over three years).