International Financial Institutions:

The Burma Project works to keep IFIs out of Burma and to prepare communities with a detailed understanding and critique of IFI approaches to development. We also join regional and international efforts to strengthen internal and external accountability mechanisms of the IFI’s including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and private banks. Currently, ERI is involved in ground level monitoring of the Asia Highway extension project in Burma which forms part of the ADB’s East West Economic Corridor Initiative.

Conflict and Natural Resources in Burma:

The Burma Project conducts research and publishes reports on the relationship between Burma’s conflict and natural resource exploitation. Burma's many conflicts seem frustratingly intransigent, and it is the political, social, and military problems that have gained international attention. While much attention is rightfully paid to the violence and repression around these conflicts, much less is paid to ideas about the natural resources that fuel them – commonly terms “conflict resources.”

EarthRights Promotion:

The Burma Project conducts trainings and skill building activities for activists from Burma. These activities are designed to raise awareness and strengthen the capacity of communities to address the varied human rights dimensions of environmental degradation in Burma.