Author: Janet Jebichii Sego
Towards a “Super” Independent Accountability Mechanism in Development Finance?
Webinar Report – 09 September 2026 On 9 September 2026, Prof. Gamze Erdem Türkelli and Ms. Janet Jebichii Sego of the Law and Development Research Group at the Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, hosted a webinar on Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs) in Development Finance, in the context of multilateral development banks (MDBs) and bilateral…
A legitimacy critique of the usage of IFC Performance Standards (2012) in relation to human rights by development financiers and agencies
At the Rethinking Legal Research in and with Africa Workshop, Prof. Dr Thoko Kaime presented on the legitimacy critique as a method in legal scholarship, from which we derived our inspiration for this contribution on the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability. These IFC PSs are widely treated as the…
An “outsider” at home: Reflections on hybrid positionality and the localization of human rights in Africa
The period between February and August 2025 marked the conduct and completion of the empirical research for my PhD project, which examines the role of bilateral development finance institutions in the protection against human rights violations in land-based investments with displacements effects in Sub-Saharan Africa. The research comprised field work on two development projects: the…