Democracia & Sistema Financeiro

The goals of the project, coordinated by Ibase, gathering the efforts of activists and specialists from 13 countries, under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation, are precisely to investigate the "democratic deficit" in the debate and decision processes embedded in the financial international institutions, and to propose ways to overcome this deficit. It is not primarily, or even mainly, an academic project, but is instead a political initiative. It aims at contributing to strengthen the hand of social movements and organizations, developing country governments, members of parliaments, among others, in their everyday struggle to demand voice and influence in the institutions that conceal their power in the informality of their bylaws or on the biases of their rules of engagement.