Ahead of the 2023 Spring Meetings, 71 civil society organisations, including the IEJ, sent a letter to the Boards of Governors of the World Bank and IMF calling on them to change their social protection policies and practices. The letter urged the IMF and the World Bank to commit to: 

  1. Supporting states to realise the right to social security.
  2. Replacing the focus on poverty-targeting with universal systems.
  3. Supporting equitable and sustainable public systems.
  4. Ceasing harmful austerity budgeting reforms.