ICIJ’s
Evicted & Abandoned investigation revealed the hidden toll of projects financed by the planet’s best-known development lender: the World Bank. Over the last decade, projects funded by the bank have cost 3.4 million people their homes, part of their land, or some of their livelihoods, while the bank has regularly violated its own rules for protecting these vulnerable populations.
The panelists will offer tips on how to investigate development aid, drawing on the lessons of the World Bank project. They will describe the main challenges faced reporting in the field, conducting data analysis, and dealing with the World Bank, and how these experiences apply to reporting on the lucrative and often unaccountable field of development aid. Among the topics to be addressed:
- Developing inside sources in international organizations
- Reporting on development projects in conflict areas and in countries hostile to the press
-Responding to aggressive public relations campaigns against your story
- Creating a database from unstructured and incomplete data
- Verifying data with an organization that is trying to undermine your story
This session is done in collaboration with the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
