By Madigan Griffin | Executive Coordinator
In July, ImpactAlpha covered Accountability Counsel's effort to make sure that harm from international financial flows is prevented and that there is accountability when it occurs. The United Nations Development Programme introduced an 'Impact Seal' for private equity and bond issuers to certify that their activity furthers the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs. While the risk that these standards lead to 'impact washing' remains, our Policy team's efforts ensured that the draft standards are open for public consultation and require grievance mechanism to allow communities to be heard.
In transparency news, the rich information related to community-driven human rights and environmental complaints in our Accountability Console can now be searched! Our Research team launched a new feature that can collect, categorize, and run optical character recognition (OCR) on complaint documents. Thousands of pages of information that people previously had to painstakingly read through to find terms like 'violence' or 'fracking' can now be searched in a matter of seconds.
Our Communities program team is continuing extraordinary work (from home!) to deliver accountability in partnership with communities in Haiti, India, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Kenya, Ukraine, and beyond. Today, remedy is at hand in Haiti, where communities who persisted in demanding accountability are now seeing tangible outcomes from agreements they reached in 2018.
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