At the World Band and IMF meetings, expectations from Latindadd and its members were mainly focused on additionality of aid, debt sustainability framework and future lending after HIPC and MDRI. (By Patricia Miranda - Fundación Jubileo Bolivia -Latindadd)

At first sight, everything seemed the same as usual. But, taking a closer look, the ritual annual meeting attended by men in dark suits – and only a few women – who decide on global finance was different this year from all the previous ones. (By Roberto Bissio)

As one of the few relevant points of the AM 2007, G24 called IMF to work more on its reform. Celine Tan (Third World Network) published her impressions on the Group statement at SUNS.

Within the framework of the last IMF/WB annual meetings, CEPR organized the seminar "Bank of the South: An Alternative to the IMF and World Bank" with Rodrigo Cabezas, Minister of Finance in Venezuela and Gustavo Guzman, Ambassador of Bolivia to the United States and Mark Weibrot, director of CEPR.

On the morning of Saturday 20th., CSOs working around debt issues met at Jubilee USA headquarters in Washington D.C. The participants were Eurodad, Latindadd, Jubilee USA, Jubilee Norway, Jubilee South, Jubilee Germany, Jubilee Zambia and Center of Concern, among others.

On October 22nd, the Bank Information Center and Crude Accountability organized a very successful roundtable event entitled “Sharing Experiences: Local Responses to Problematic IFC-funded projects in the former Soviet Union”.

The symposium on access to health and education was coorganized by Oxfam and the World Bank. It consisted of a panel of five people: two from the Bank and three who were representing CSOs. Each of the panelists gave a short (sometimes not so short) presentations on their perspectives of the trends in access to health and education over recent years.

After a long week of meetings, I am pleased to say that Gender Action had a series of successful workshops with great discussions. Here are the event summaries with presentations attached below:

Gender Justice: A Citizen's Guide to Gender Accountability at International Financial Institutions

In today's Guardian, by Robert Goodland. Worth re-printing here in full:

After the nightmare for the World Bank at the spring meetings over the ignominious departure of former president Paul Wolfowitz, it was the Fund that came in for brickbats at this year's annual meetings.