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ICYMI: Sophie Edwards reported in Devex that the The World Bank Group has contracted global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to lead an independent review to determine whether the IFC - International Finance Corporation interfered with the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO)’s investigation of child sexual abuse at the Bridge International Academies schools it funded in Kenya. The Bank has specified that Freshfields will focus on whether or not the CAO had sufficient access to information and cooperation from IFC management and staff, but that misses the point entirely. The real scandal that Freshfields needs to probe is the secret non-disclosure agreement that IFC's general counsel arranged with Bridge in the middle of the CAO investigation, and the conspiracy to "neutralize" the CAO compliance specialist who was leading the investigation, so that wrongdoing related to child sexual abuse at Bridge schools would not become public while the company was in the middle of a fundraising round. The Intercept published documentary evidence of the meeting between IFC management and Bridge where this plan was hatched. As our Executive Director David Pred told Devex, “If Freshfields doesn’t investigate those explosive allegations, leading to concrete reforms at the World Bank Group, then this probe will be a complete waste of time and public resources.” https://lnkd.in/gTydb47b