Goals and Objectives

Mission

Our mission is to fundamentally transform the international financial system, and its institutions, namely the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and Export Credit Agencies. By doing so, we hope to achieve poverty eradication, environmental sustainability and the full realization of human rights.

Goals

• Ensure that the international financial system contributes towards poverty eradication, environmental sustainability, an equitable distribution of wealth and the full realization of human rights.
• End the unsustainable policies and practices of the international financial institutions.
• Contribute to the realization of an alternative agenda for environmentally and socially sustainable development than the Washington Consensus.

Objectives

• pursue 100% cancellation of the debt of the poorest countries without conditions;
• investigate and develop a mechanism(s) to control international currency speculation;
• halt structural adjustment programmes as currently constituted so as to prevent further social and ecological damage; and,
• fundamentally transform the international financial system to ensure democratic governance, transparency, community involvement, full and open public participation and public accountability;
• stop lending for environmentally and socially destructive projects.