DEI is Alive and Well at the World Bank

Despite the removal of DEI policies, personnel and offices in U.S. federal departments, these are alive and thriving at taxpayer expense at the World Bank and other multilateral development banks.  

Just a few examples of publications and job postings tell the story:

World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030

IMF Policy Paper: 2022-2023 Diversity & Inclusion Report: June 2024

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at IFC

Climate Investment Funds: CIF Gender Review

Gender and Social Inclusion Expert: Asian Development Bank

The World Bank Group: Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – June 19, 2020

U.S. taxpayers are funding the spread of DEI dogma into every corner of so-called “economic development”.  Even the Green New Deal programs at these international institutions have an overlay of DEI.  

The ideal solution is for the President to simply withdraw U.S. membership in the World Bank and its sister organizations as outlined in How to DOGE the World Bank: A Primer.  

Pending withdrawal, Congressmen Mario Diaz-Balart and Warren Davidson should include a complete review of MDB DEI activities in hearings before their respective Subcommittee on National Security, Department of State, and Related Agencies and Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions.

Treasury officials overseeing these organizations and the appointed U.S. representatives to them should be called to account for upholding Presidential directives to end DEI.

As an aside: What must the PR and printing budgets of these organizations be to flood the PR markets with scores of glossy publications and elaborate websites?  And the purpose? Pander to activists who support DEI to get them to lobby for more money for the institutions. Always follow the money.