If not for this investigation, many would still be celebrating this school network as transformative.
How many such cases of wrongdoing remain unknown? Where is the accountability for transnational institutions that run “development initiatives” in LMICs? Who is monitoring them?
❗️❗️After two in depth investigations by The Intercept into a World Bank cover-up a child sex abuse scandal at a for profit school network in Africa, the World Bank has finally acknowledged wrongdoing.
WB head Ajay Banga in an email to staff apologized to the victims and promised an independent investigation.
This comes after the bank and its client spent the last year denigrating and dismissing our reporting.