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Ensure people can shape the decisions that affect their lives.

Other | Global | Access to Information | Energy and Fuel Efficiency

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http://www.accountabilityproject.org

Overview

The International Accountability Project works to ensure all people can shape the decisions that affect their homes environment and communities. IAP an international advocacy organization wins policy change boosts local advocacy efforts and supports local activists and communities to access and exchange information on development that affects them. By recognizing and creating openings at influential decision making spaces IAP seeks to advance development principles and projects that prioritize human and environmental rights. IAP is recognized for its nimble thoughtful and inclusive work that fights for community led expertise and experience to be the center of how development is designed funded and implemented. At its core IAP leverages community level expertise and experience to reinforce campaigns supporting community led development. IAP works primarily in two ways.1. IAP creates technology platforms and training tools to support communities and civil society to monitor and respond to development projects likely to cause human rights and environmental abuses. IAP exchanges expert advice trainings and materials with communities likely to be affected and civil society groups. When assisting specific frontline struggles IAP supports the community led priorities and recommendations directed towards the financial institutions governments and project proponents connected to the project. 2. IAP identifies the development financial institutions and standard setting processes with the greatest impact on people s ability to shape their own development and provide remedies when rights are violated. To influence the policy and practice of development IAP assists communities to gather their own community led research on their development priorities their experience in the development process and the potential impacts of development projects to advocate for community led and evidence based practices to change how development is designed funded and implemented.