Export Credit Agencies / Letters

Dear Ms. West:

I would like to contribute to the process whereby the Participants to the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits and the environmental practitioners are currently considering strengthening their environmental policies for large hydro projects. May I ask you to kindly forward this memorandum to the Participants and the environmental practitioners? My expertise is that of an academic researcher and a consultant who has been studying the social and environmental impacts of large dams, especially hydro, starting with the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi in the mid 1950s. In particular I would like to compare the utility of the World Bank’s safeguard policies with the policy principles of the World Commission of Dams (WCD). I am familiar with both.