Nachtigal Hydropower Project (P157734) and Hydropower Development on the Sanaga River Technical Assistance Project (P157733) | Accountability Console
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Nachtigal Hydropower Project (P157734) and Hydropower Development on the Sanaga River Technical Assistance Project (P157733)

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: 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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Cultural heritage

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on any type of tangible or intangible cultural heritage, including significant sites, unique environmental features, cultural knowledge, and traditional lifestyles.

Complaints with this Issue: 120

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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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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

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: 353

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Regulatory Development

Description: Project relates specifically to development or reform of legal frameworks, including laws and regulations.

Complaints in this Sector: 169

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Description

The Requesters allege that they are suffering or likely to suffer harm from the Nachtigal dam. The Panel notes there are two projects of relevance to this dam: (i) the Cameroon Nachtigal Hydropower Project (NHP) and (ii) the Hydropower Development on the Sanaga River Technical Assistance Project, both supported by the World Bank. The Requesters allege that there is non-compliance with World Bank policies and procedures, causing or potentially causing harm to the communities’ means of subsistence, their education, health, and nutrition. The Requesters allege a lack of meaningful consultation, inadequate resettlement measures in relation to both physical and economic displacement, loss of income-generating activities for fishermen, sand miners and fishmongers, untimely and inadequate compensation for land and crops, lack of accessibility to agricultural land, inadequate housing, destruction of sacred sites, loss of medicinal plants and water resources used for healing and rituals, and environmental damage. They also allege that the project activities are causing an increase in social harms including theft, juvenile delinquency, commercial sex work, marital conflicts and divorces in their community.

Complaint Stages

Filing

June 30, 2022

Filing

Status:

Start Date: June 30, 2022

Registration

June 30, 2022 -

July 25, 2022

Registration

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: June 30, 2022

End Date: July 25, 2022

Eligibility

July 25, 2022 -

Sept. 27, 2022

Eligibility

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: July 25, 2022

End Date: Sept. 27, 2022

Dispute Resolution

Dec. 1, 2022

Dispute Resolution

Status: In Progress

Start Date: Dec. 1, 2022

Compliance Review

Not Undertaken

Compliance Review

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Complaint not yet reached stage; Complaint not yet reached stage, Dispute Resolution in progress

Has Compliance Report: No

Non-Compliance Found: No

Monitoring

Not Undertaken

Monitoring

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Complaint not yet reached stage; Complaint not yet reached stage, Dispute Resolution in progress

Closed

Not Closed

Timeline