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Community health and safety

Description: Complaint raises concerns related to public health and safety including incidents of or an increase in accidents, release of hazardous materials, and spread of diseases. Concerns related to retaliation and/or violence are not included.

Complaints with this Issue: 363

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Consultation and disclosure

Description: Complaint raises concerns regarding inadequate or absent consultation about or disclosure of project information, including project impacts and/or mitigation plans.

Complaints with this Issue: 537

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Displacement (physical and/or economic)

Description: Complaint raises concerns about physical relocation, loss of shelter, and/or loss of assets that relate to income or livelihood.

Complaints with this Issue: 494

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Environmental

Description: Complaint raises concerns regarding environmental impacts that do not refer specifically to water, pollution, or biodiversity.

Complaints with this Issue: 408

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Livelihoods

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on the means by which people make a living, including wage-based income, trade and bartering, agriculture, fishing, foraging, and other natural-resource based means.

Complaints with this Issue: 345

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Pollution

Description: Complaint raises concerns about releases of pollutants related to the project, including hazardous or non-hazardous chemicals, minerals, metals, pathogens, odors, noise, vibration, radiation, light, and heat.

Complaints with this Issue: 229

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Retaliation (actual or feared)

Description: Complaint raises concerns about incidents or risk of harm against those who have raised concerns about the project perpetrated by the project company, government, public or private security forces, or other individuals acting on behalf of project proponents. Retaliation may include discrimination, slander, threats, denial of services, unfounded judicial proceedings, and termination of employment. Concerns regarding specific incidents of violence are not included.

Complaints with this Issue: 71

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Water

Description: Complaint raises concerns about access to or availability of water. Concerns related to water pollution are not included.

Complaints with this Issue: 194

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Sectors

Extractives (oil, gas, mining)

Description: Project relates to the extractive industries, including oil, gas, and mining. Examples may include mines, drilling operations, pipelines, and the associated legal frameworks.

Complaints in this Sector: 201

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Financing

Description:

Complaints in this Sector: 20

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Infrastructure

Description: Project relates to construction or improvement of large structures, facilities, or public works projects. Examples include roads and other transportation projects, sanitation and water treatment facilities, power plants, and industrial facilities.

Complaints in this Sector: 994

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Project

Name: Unknown DEG Africa

Investments: DEG

Client:

Support:

Country: Unknown

Complaint

IAM: Independent Complaints Mechanism (ICM)

ID: 21-001

Date Filed: Feb. 25, 2021

Status: Active

Description

The complainants claim that DEG’s client, a commercial bank based in an African country, has financed an open-pit mining company in another African country and that the mining corporation has caused harm to them. They fear that the expansion of the mining operation will cause additional harm. The complainants allege that they have suffered substantial harm from resettlement from the area where the mine was established, from environmental impacts and impacts from river diversion. Allegedly serious harm was caused through the release of harmful chemicals between December 2015 and June 2016. They further claim that, due to an expansion of the mine, their access to farmland has been restricted and that artisanal miners have been told to move or restrict operations without compensation. They are concerned about further harm as the mining company has started to prepare its expansion by construction of a road and of a camp facility without having consulted with the affected communities about potential environmental and social impacts. Complainants particularly fear resettlement and are concerned about the absence of any agreement on resettlement benefits. The complainants have asked for strictly confidential treatment of their case, as they see themselves at risk of reprisals.

Complaint Stages

Filing

Feb. 25, 2021

Filing

Status:

Start Date: Feb. 25, 2021

Registration

Feb. 25, 2021 -

Feb. 28, 2021

Registration

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: Feb. 25, 2021

End Date: Feb. 28, 2021

Eligibility

Feb. 28, 2021 -

July 21, 2021

Eligibility

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: Feb. 28, 2021

End Date: July 21, 2021

Dispute Resolution

July 21, 2021

Dispute Resolution

Status: In Progress

Start Date: July 21, 2021

Compliance Review

Not Undertaken

Compliance Review

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Complaint not yet reached stage

Has Compliance Report: No

Non-Compliance Found: No

Monitoring

Not Undertaken

Monitoring

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Complaint not yet reached stage

Closed

Not Closed

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