Understanding the African Development Bank: A Guide for Civil Society Organizations and Communities

The President is in charge of the daily management of the bank, under the direction of the Board of Directors, with the support of a Chief Economist and five Vice Presidents. [...] The bank affirms it respects the principles and values of human rights as set out in the United Nations Charter and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, and these principles guided the development of the Integrated Safeguards System (see section below). [...] The overarching objective of the framework is to help the AfDB achieve greater results and impacts through improving its collaboration with CSOs and strengthening the mechanisms for participation and coordination. [...] The mandate of the Civil Society Committee is to advise the bank on forging stronger relations and partnerships with the CSO community and help hold the bank accountable for the implementation of the Civil Society Engagement Strategy. [...] Raise concerns and put Lobby parliamentarians and promoting parliamentary oversight of the AfDB pressure on the Another strategy involves going straight to the governments who own the AfDB with bank through the demand to strengthen their oversight.