Government Accountability Project Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

Nov 9, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$2,886,250

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

International o gap represented an administrative officer in the office of institutional integrity who was placed on special leave and removed from the world bank after an anonymous email was sent to the idb executive director for japan. Gap challenged the bank's decision to fire our client for providing information to fox news about conflicts between former bank president paul wolfowitz and the bank's board of directors. Our client's termination followed 25 years of service at the bank with a discipline-free employment record. As a direct result of our work, the world bank administrative tribunal released a far-reaching decision that gives bank employees significant new protections from both excessive punishment for revealing information to the press, and sweeping searches of their computers. O gap released two reports about racial discrimination at the world bank and the inter-american development bank (idb), respectively. At the world bank gap found that the bank failed to meet its own rhetoric about inclusion and equity in hiring, retention and promotion practices. After that report was released idb whistleblowers told us that racial discrimination was a problem at their institution as well. As a result of these efforts, gap was a founding member of an international alliance working with the idb's diversity adviser and the diversity office to address both of these shortcomings. O gap worked with a whistleblower to expose corruption in the world bank's national aids control project ii. Our client's documentation leaves no doubt that substandard hiv test kits that sometimes give false negative results distributed by monozyme, ltd. Were in use in india as recently as 2007. Moreover, our client believes that millions of dollars in bank funds have been spent on these kits. The continued use of the kits is a potential public health disaster, condemning many indians to a life and death of aids. Our client's disclosures are of an urgent nature and reveal the ways in which a lack of accountability in bank project operations can actually become a matter of life and death. O gap pressed the u.s. Mission to the united nations to advocate for the appointment of a qualified director to lead the organization's investigations division. O gap met with key staffers in the house appropriations committee (subcommittee on state, foreign operations and related programs) and the house financial services committee to discuss our concerns about the treatment of whistleblowers at the multilateral development banks and related accountability issues.

Activity 3

Environmental oversight o gap worked with allies to advance a national climate change preparedness initiative (nccpi) framework for federal action to connect experts in science and technology with states and local communities to support more informed and effective decisions and actions related to climate change. We interviewed 26 leaders of the first national assessment of climate change impacts regional and sectoral assessments, focusing on the national assessment's most important insights on climate change impacts and expert-stakeholder interaction and how this experience might inform future federal action related to climate change preparedness. Gap program climate science watch director rick piltz also spoke about the need for a national climate change preparedness initiative at two national conferences held in washington, dc, by the national council on science and the environment and the center for science in the public interest. Additionally, we established cooperative links with other organizations substantially furthering our work -- including, for example, the presidential climate action project, the clean air-cool planet/climate policy center, and the union of concerned scientists. O in 2010, we worked hard to highlight the critical need for the national climate change assessment (ncca) process to be reactivated, updated and expanded. We were an invited participant to a white house-sponsored first-stage strategic planning meeting held in chicago to potentially reactivate the ncca -- an important effort to assess the potential consequences of climate variability and change for the united states, which was initially praised by the national academy of sciences and then suppressed under the bush administration. O in 2010, we regularly shared our expertise on the necessity for ensuring climate science integrity through a widely recognized website which continues to attract a growing audience of thousands of readers that includes reporters, government officials, congressional offices, scientists, educators, activists, and others nationwide and internationally. The demand has been so high for our expertise that we expanded the site this year to most effectively convey the breadth of our efforts. We published new material regularly, and added over 250 new items. Joined by occasional guest contributors, we published many original articles on the obama administration, congress, climate change planning and preparedness, the u.s. Climate change science program, scientific integrity and the federal government, and whistleblower protection, with a strong emphasis on the war on climate science and climate scientists that was aggressively escalated in 2010 by the global warming disinformation campaign.

Filer

EIN

52-1343924