Counter Balance – Challenging public investment banks is a European coalition of development and environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with extensive experience working on development finance and the international financial institutions (IFIs) as well as campaigning to prevent negative impacts resulting from major infrastructure projects.
Counter Balance’s mission is to make European public finance a key driver of the transition towards socially and environmentally sustainable and equitable societies.
We do this by holding EU public financial institutions to account, challenging harmful decisions, policies and projects, and promoting alternatives. As a coalition we work in close cooperation and solidarity with affected communities and citizens around the world and are willing to act as a support service for them.
Starting from the observation of a growing dominance of private finance driving inequality and straitjacketing our economies, politics and societies, we pay a lot of attention to how money is spent and who profits from it.
We challenge the business model of public investment banks which is increasingly subordinated to the same market logic, even when tasked with promoting development.
At the same we promote and advocate for more transparency and stronger accountability mechanisms for these institutions. We support our findings and recommendations through case studies illustrating the impact of public financial flows.
Counter Balance’s members include:
* BothEnds (the Netherlands)
* Bretton Woods Project (United Kingdom)
* CEE Bankwatch Network (Central and Eastern Europe)
* Corner House (United Kingdom)
* Les Amis de la Terre (France)
* ODG (Spain)
* Platform (United Kingdom)
* Re:Common (Italy)
* urgewald (Germany)
Company Details
- Employees
- 2
- Founded
- -
- Address
- Bruxelles
- Industry
- Civic And Social Organizations
- NAICS
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Civic and Social Organizations
- Website
- counter-balance.org
- Keywords
- for them..
- HQ
- Bruxelles
- Competitors
- T&E, Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), European Climate Foundation, CEE Bankwatch Network, Social Platform, Resource Matters, Renew Europe, Eurodad - the European Network on Debt and Development.
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Counter Balance's website is counter-balance.org
Counter Balance's LinkedIn profile is https://be.linkedin.com/company/counter-balance
Counter Balance has
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Counter Balance's industry is
Civic and Social Organizations
Counter Balance's top competitors are
T&e,
Ministero Degli Affari Esteri E Della Cooperazione Internazionale,
German Institute Of Development And Sustainability (Idos),
United Nations Office For Disaster Risk Reduction (Undrr),
European Climate Foundation,
Cee Bankwatch Network,
Social Platform,
Resource Matters,
Renew Europe,
Eurodad - The European Network On Debt And Development.
Counter Balance's categories are Civic and Social Organizations
Counter Balance's founding year is 2007
