Environmental organisations can influence multilateral banks' policies and decisions.
But they must learn how to be taken seriously. Insight spoke to Petr Hlobil from CEE Bankwatch Network. But aside from that, the young coordinator of CEE Bankwatch Network could blend in easily with other delegates from international organisations, banks and the policymakers, who comprised the bulk of those assembling at the Aarhus conference in June. Although he stresses that campaigning against bank policy is not all about image, Hlobil believes that to achieve results CSOs must learn to work with those organisations which they protest against. That involves learning to negotiate effectively and understanding just how to influence funding or policy decisions from the inside.