The climate crisis threatens all of us. We won’t solve it without charting a new path that creates a meaningful role for citizens everywhere in climate decisions. A livable and just future requires green accountability.
Strengthening Governance for Equitable Climate Finance: Green Accountability Platform
March 20, 2025
Our recent webinar explores the Green Accountability Platform, a global initiative aimed at strengthening governance for equitable climate finance. Featuring voices from Brazil, Cameroon, Mexico, Senegal, and beyond, it highlights how civil society organizations are mobilizing to make climate finance transparent, participatory, and inclusive for communities most affected by climate change.
CIVIC: The Civil Society and Social Innovation Alliance
November 11, 2024
Read more on the World Bank Group's forthcoming initiative to support civil society.
CIVIC: The Civil Society and Social Innovation Alliance will be a dedicated finance and support facility for civil society organizations and other social economy actors. CIVIC’s development objective is to bridge civil society, social innovators, WBG, and governments to identify, support and foster scalable, people-driven solutions for a livable planet.
October 24, 2024
We are excited to share a preview of the soon-to-be launched successor of the GPSA, ‘CIVIC: The Civil Society and Social Innovation Alliance’ 2025 initiative. Through the WBG Evolution Roadmap and IDA21, we are renewing our commitment to strengthen the WBG’s engagement with civil society organizations and social innovators.
The Green Accountability Platform is a multi-stakeholder initiative launched by the World Bank's Global Partnership for Social Accountability, in collaboration with a consortium of leading CSOs—World Resources Institute, Huairou Commission, and SouthSouthNorth—as implementation partners. Its aims to build systems to enhance the quality, effectiveness, and equity of climate finance in five pilot countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Mexico, and Senegal.
The GPSA and Climate Collective work together to leverage innovative green technology solutions to improve citizen engagement, transparency, and accountability in climate finance. The 1st cohort of the Green Accountability Technology Accelerator, which consists of four teams, are developing tech-enabled tools to enhance citizen oversight and decision making in climate finance and climate action.
Global Youth Leadership Center has joined forces with the World Bank’s Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA), a key player in civil society-led social change. The partnership aims to foster youth leadership in climate-vulnerable countries in the Global South through online education focused on climate leadership, green skills, and social accountability.
Green accountability creates systemic ways for people to have a voice and role in the climate decisions that most impact their lives. It places citizens and civil society at the heart of climate finance to direct funding, implement solutions, and hold decision-makers accountable for effective and equitable climate action.
Amplifying People’s Power: Building Systems for Participatory and Inclusive Development
This fireside chat delved into the latest trends and hurdles in empowering citizens and civil society organizations advocating for transparent, participatory, inclusive, and accountable governance and development!
Scaling People-Driven Solutions for Livable Planet
Thought leaders and practitioners from leading systems change organizations convened for a compelling discussion on the role of civil society and social economy actors in advancing the quality and effectiveness of development finance.
We have a historic and singular opportunity to shape the rapidly emerging climate finance ecosystem to make it equitable and effective.
Together, we can build an ecosystem that prioritizes transparency, accountability, and participation.
Join the green accountability movement and help build a livable and just future.
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Read more about our green accountability global grant recipient: WRI, SSN and Huairou.
Growing global challenges like climate change are pushing us to do better, faster. We’re charting a bolder, greener, and more innovative future for GPSA and civil society participation. Accountability and collaboration are our focus. We’re bringing our proven track record of supporting innovative social accountability efforts to the climate finance space to create a meaningful and central role for citizens and civil society.
Civil society has a direct say in how and where climate finance is used.
Local knowledge and community participation inform and deliver climate solutions.
Communities and governments have transparent and accessible data to ensure climate solutions are making a real impact.