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Date: 2011/10/27<br>Subject: Sign On by 10/28: Letter Appeal to the High Level Panel on Infrastructure at the G-20<br>To: <a href="mailto:chluisa@gmail.com">chluisa@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Heinrich Boell Foundation North America has added its signature to a letter campaign taking issue with the lack of transparency and cooperation with civil society surrounding the G-20 High Level Panel on Infrastructure's upcoming report and recommendations for the G-20 Summit in Paris. Please read the request below.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13pt"><b><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Urgent: Sign on Requested</span></b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Dear Colleagues,</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Please consider signing your organization on to the letter below to the Chair and Members of the G-20 High Level Panel (HLP) on Infrastructure. <b>We apologize for this late notice: Please send sign-ons no later than the end of this Friday, October 28. </b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">The letter takes issue with the HLP for formulating a report to be submitted to the Leaders at the G-20 Summit in France in the absence of any consultation with civil society, and with virtually no transparency. The letter requests that the draft HLP report be disclosed and consultations held with civil society organizations prior to submission of the report to the G-20 Leaders.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">The HLP report is important because it is expected to recommend criteria for Multilateral Development Bank and G-20 support for infrastructure projects, to prioritize specific large and harmful infrastructure projects for support, and to propose new financial mechanisms to advance these projects. We fear that these large infrastructure projects may benefit primarily the elites while creating unsustainable development paths that saddle countries with poverty and debt, violate human rights, and cause harmful environmental impacts, including global climate change.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Initial signers include Pacific Environment, International Rivers, CRBM, Cornerhouse.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Signers are kindly requested to send <b>name, organization, and country</b>. Please send sign-ons to Doug Norlen, Pacific Environment, at
<a href="mailto:dnorlen@pacificenvironment.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0000ff">dnorlen@pacificenvironment.org</span></a> by the end of this Friday, October 28!</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Groups in G-20 countries are kindly requested to prepare to send a copy of the final letter to their heads of state and finance ministers next week.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Thank you!</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Nancy Alexander</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Director, Economic Governance Program</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Tidjane Thiam</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Group Chief Executive of Prudential plc.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Chair, High Level Panel for Infrastructure</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">RE: Concern Regarding Lack of Consultation and Transparency by the High Level Panel for Infrastructure</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Mr. Thiam and Members of the High Level Panel for Infrastructure,</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">We are writing to request that the High Level Panel for Infrastructure (HLP), which is referenced in the February 2011 G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Communique, disclose its draft report and hold consultations with civil society organizations prior to submission of the report to the G-20 Summit on 3-4 November 2011. </span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">As civil society organizations, we are deeply concerned about the lack of transparency and consultation in the HLP’s process of formulating the report, especially since the process has been ongoing for a year, since the November 2010 G-20 Summit. </span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">We are profoundly aware of the importance of appropriate infrastructure in the developing world. Undertaken correctly, infrastructure projects can promote the well-being of current and future generations of people while protecting the environment. Undertaken incorrectly, large infrastructure projects can benefit primarily the elites in developing and developed countries, while creating unsustainable development paths that saddle countries with poverty and debt, violate human rights, and cause harmful environmental impacts, including global climate change. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">In their recent Communique, the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors: "call on the MDBs, working with countries involved to pursue implementation of transformational regional infrastructure projects following the <i>criteria set by the HLP and to prioritize project preparation financing</i>" [emphasis added].<sup>2</sup> We believe that identifying such criteria and selecting projects that meet the criteria are processes that should be carried out in public, involving Parliamentarians and civil society organizations, particularly those in the host countries. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Transparency, accountability and public participation are particularly important for public works sector projects that the HLP may be considering. Transparency International has found that "the problem of corruption is particularly prevalent in public works and construction," and that it is "often responsible for the funneling of scarce public resources to uneconomic high-profile projects, such as dams, power plants, pipelines and refineries, at the expense of less spectacular but fundamentally important infrastructure projects, such as schools, hospitals and roads, or the supply of power to rural areas." </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">We hope that the HLP observes standard public participation processes and ensures prioritization of a pipeline of projects that have appropriate public interest safeguards and have as their chief goal to reduce poverty in low income countries. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">We are concerned that the HLP could interpret environmental, social and human rights safeguards as "bottlenecks" and fail to integrate these with poverty reduction objectives. According to a recent World Bank Independent Evaluation Group report, only 13% of sampled International Finance Corporation projects over the past decade had explicit poverty alleviation objectives. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Our organizations will continue to be involved in the infrastructure development processes undertaken by the G-20 and other international and national bodies. Civil society organizations have proactively engaged with the G-20 Development Working Group and therefore wonder why this work stream on infrastructure has so little transparency and no consultation, undercutting the legitimacy of this specific G-20 process. We therefore respectfully request public disclosure of the latest draft HLP report, and call for consultations with civil society organizations at the soonest possible opportunity and, in any case, prior to the November G-20 Summit in Cannes, France.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">CC: France and G-20 President Nicolas Sarkozy </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">[1] The HLP includes: Chair: Tidjane Thiam (Ivory Coast), Group Chief Executive of Prudential plc; Yahya A. Alyahya (Saudi Arabia), CEO of the Gulf International Bank; Yoon-Je Cho (Korea), Professor at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea; Luciano Coutinho (Brazil) President of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES); Paul Douglas (Canada) CEO of PCL Constructors, Inc.; Jim Harmon (USA), Chairman of Harmon & Co., LLC, Chair, Caravel Fund; Mo Ibrahim (Sudan), Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Hayrettin Kaplan (Turkey), CEO of the Turkish Eximbank; Takatoshi Kato (Japan), President, Japan Center for International Finance; Norbert Kloppenburg (Germany) Member, Managing Board, KFW; Rajiv B. Lall (India), CEO, Infrastructure Development Finance Co.; Jin Liqun (China) Board of Supervisors, China Investment Corporation (CIC); S.R. Maharaj (So. Africa), Former Minister of Transport, Special Envoy, SA pdt; Nicholas Moore (Australia), CEO, Macquarie Bank; Paul Victor Obeng (Ghana), Chair, Guinness Ghana Breweries, Ltd.; Alessandro Ortis (Italy), Chair, National Regulatory Authority for Electric & Gas; Lionel Zinsou (France), CEO of PAI Partners. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt">[2] Item 6,
<a rel="Communique of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the G-20, Paris, France" href="http://e2ma.net/go/10848945627/3998975/110927887/15508/goto:http://www.g20.org/Documents2011/10/G20%20communiqu%2014-15%20October%202011-EN.pdf" target="_blank">Communique of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the G-20, Paris, France</a>, 14-15 October, 2011</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11pt">For further information, see "
<a rel="Beyond the Public Eye High-Level Panel on Infrastructure To Unveil its Recommendations for G20 Leaders" href="http://e2ma.net/go/10848945627/3998975/110927888/15508/goto:http://www.boell.org/web/index-843.html" target="_blank">Beyond the Public Eye: High-Level Panel on Infrastructure To Unveil its Recommendations for G20 Leaders</a>," by Nancy Alexander, Heinrich Boell Foundation-North America </span></div>
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