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Medupi Power Project

Issues

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: 336

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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: 495

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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: 366

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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: 319

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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: 219

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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: 187

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Sectors

Energy

Description: Project relates to energy access, legal frameworks regarding the energy sector, and development and operation of energy infrastructure, including power generation and electric and gas distribution and storage. Projects specifically related to the extraction of oil and gas are not included.

Complaints in this Sector: 325

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Project

Name: Medupi Power Project

Investments: AfDB

Client:

Support: Loans

Country: South Africa

Complaint

IAM: Independent Recourse Mechanism (IRM)

ID: RQ 2010/2

Date Filed: Sept. 28, 2010

Status: Monitoring

Description

"The Compliance Review and Mediation Unit (CRMU) received on 28th September, 2010, a Request to investigate possible violation of the Bank’s policies and procedures with regard to the Medupi Power Project of the Republic of South Africa. The Request was submitted by two individuals, South African nationals, who have requested that their identity be kept confidential throughout the investigations and outcomes thereof in accordance with paragraph 8 of the IRM Operating Rules and Procedures." (AfDB complaint website) Suspended until 2026: "Even though the implementation of the Updated MAP cannot be considered complete, the IRM considers that under the existing circumstances wherein the construction phase of the Project has now been completed and the Bank is no longer required to undertake implementation supervision missions, it would be both prudent and practical to functionally ‘suspend’ the case at this stage and not continue with the monitoring of the two pending action items until 2026. The IRM has been monitoring this Project for more than 7 years now, and the two pending actions will be implemented in the next 5 years (with possibility of delays due to unforeseen circumstances such as the impacts on the COVID-19 pandemic). In addition, the Project has already been fully disbursed and therefore, there is little leverage on the part the Bank to influence the borrower to implement the pending actions. These facts have led the IRM to make the decision to suspend the annual monitoring until at least 2026." (South Africa - Medupi Power Project - 5th Monitoring Report, 28-Jan-2022)

Complaint Stages

Filing

Sept. 28, 2010

Filing

Status:

Start Date: Sept. 28, 2010

Registration

Sept. 28, 2010 -

Oct. 7, 2010

Registration

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: Sept. 28, 2010

End Date: Oct. 7, 2010

Eligibility

Oct. 7, 2010 -

Jan. 20, 2011

Eligibility

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: Oct. 7, 2010

End Date: Jan. 20, 2011

Dispute Resolution

Not Undertaken

Dispute Resolution

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Not desired by complainant, Complainant chose not to have dispute resolution

Compliance Review

July 15, 2011 -

Feb. 1, 2013

Compliance Review

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: July 15, 2011

End Date: Feb. 1, 2013

Has Compliance Report: Yes

Non-Compliance Found: Yes

Monitoring

Feb. 1, 2013

Monitoring

Status: In Progress

Start Date: Feb. 1, 2013

Closed

Not Closed

Timeline

Involved Groups

Name Complaints Group Type
CSO Coalition on the AfDB 3 International CSO