Improving International Development Policies $300,000

Reform of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs)
and Export Credit Agencies (ECAs)

Center for International Environmental Law: $30,000
For the Export Credit Agencies Project, which aims to expand the support system for the international NGO campaign to report the policies of Export Credit Agencies, and to support Latin American non-governmental partner organizations that join the international campaign.

Forest Peoples Programme: $35,000
For support of its efforts to revise international policies regarding forests in order to ensure that the rights and interests of forest peoples are at the forefront of decision-making.

Friends of the Earth: $40,000
For support of its program to reform international financial institutions (IFIs), which play a major role in determining the development paths of many Third World countries. The program seeks to promote positive environmental changes, including phasing out lending for fossil energy and mining projects, promoting investment in renewable energy, and bulding capacity in developing countries to improve projects and loans of the IFIs.

Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment, USA (GLOBE, USA): $35,000
For general support of this organization, which works to conserve biodiversity by activating and educating legislators to reform export credit agencies; to maintain pressure on the World Bank to adhere to its own environmental standards; and to continue efforts to foster dialogue between GLOBE USA membership and major international institutions on the role of legislators and their active participation in global environmental discourse.

Oxfam America: $50,000 For the IFI Environmental Policy Project, which promotes sustainable development by advocating for sound environmental policies with the international financial institutions.

Trade, Environment and Globalization

Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean: $30,000
Recommended for support of the Convergence of Movements of Peoples in the Americas (COMPA), a coalition of grassroots organizations and NGOs from 18 countries in the Western Hemisphere, to support its efforts to build a continental movement for just and sustainable alternatives to the current model of economic globalization.

Georgetown University Law Center - Harrison Institute for Public Law: $30,000
For the Balancing Democracy and Trade Project, which seeks to more actively engage elected public officials in the U.S. on international trade policy, develop their capacity to better understand the environmental, economic, labor and human rights implications and impacts of trade liberalization on U.S. communities and their authority, and assist these officials to engage in oversight of trade policy development and negotiations.

Sierra Club Foundation: $50,000
For its Responsible Trade Project, which seeks to educate the public and organize citizens to work for environmentally responsible trade policies, and to help ensure that the state and local impacts of such policies influence U.S. trade policy-making.