Complaint > Ficohsa-01/ CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...Financial Intermediary clients  Identification and management of E&S risks around Financial Intermediary clients.  Knowledge of IFC’s Performance Standards, as well as applicable Environmental and Social Review Procedures.  Experience and knowledge of compliance investigations.  Demonstrated ability to analyze policies and practices and develop proposals for reform in complex institutional contexts. ...

Complaint > CAO Compliance Audit of IFC's Financial Sector Investments

Compliance Report: Audit of Sample IFC Investments in Third-Party Financial Intermediaries

Complaint > India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District

Compliance Report: English

...Financial Intermediary Investments IFC classifies its investments in IDFC and the Fund as financial intermediary (FI) investments. As explained by IFC, a key purpose of its FI investments is to “strengthen domestic capital markets at a scale of enterprise that is smaller than would be possible through IFC direct investments” (Sustainability Policy (2006), para. 27). FI investments account for almost half of IFC’s new commitments each year. This business has grown rapidly in recent years and amou...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-04/Bujagali

Compliance Report: English

...financial support for the project.8 At the same time, several NGOs voiced opposition to the project and filed complaints with the Inspection Panel for the World Bank (IPN) and with CAO. This led to an IPN investigation,9 and a CAO assessment process.10 In 2003, citing financial difficulties, AESNP withdrew from the original project. As a result, GoU, with the assistance of the World Bank, initiated an international bidding process to identify a new private sector sponsor for the project. In 2005...

Complaint > Real LRIF-01/Coban

Compliance Report: English

...Financial Intermediary Investments With the objective of supporting sustainable capital market and financial sector development, IFC has developed a significant program of indirect investment through financial intermediaries (FIs). IFC’s investment in the Fund was an FI investment. Through these investments “IFC helps strengthen domestic capital and financial markets that support economic development at a scale of activity that is smaller than would be possible through direct FI investments.” 16...

Complaint > Amaggi Expansion-01/IFC Executive Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...financial intermediary client’s on-lending activities10. Amaggi’s Environmental Management System includes 13 management programs, dealing with aspects such as: the legal and regulatory framework; worker health and safety; occupational health; and environmental evaluation. One of these management programs specified requirements for the environmental orientation of pre-financed suppliers. This addressed aspects such as: conducting technical inspections of pre-financed suppliers; training of pre-f...

Complaint > Quellaveco Mining-01/Moquegua

Compliance Report: English

...Financial Intermediary (FI) – may include financing a variety of subprojects that may result in environmental impacts, thus requiring environmental review by the financial intermediary, in 17 accordance with this IFC procedure. While the definition of each category has been developed with new iterations of IFC’s environmental and social policy, the core categories have not changed significantly since they were first defined (see A...

Complaint > Wilmar Group-01/West Kalimantan

Compliance Report: English

...financial intermediary projects. 2 http://www.ifc.org/ 9 Audit Report C - I - R6 - Y08 – F096 Environmental Assessment, and related action plans to address potential impacts; and assessments and actions related to provisions given for land acquisition and involuntary resettlement, for biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource managemen...

Complaint > Agrokasa-01/Ica

Compliance Report: CAO Audit of IFC Investments in Agribusiness in the Ica Valley, Peru, February 22, 2011

...financial intermediary projects.” 10 Audit Report C - I – R9 – Y10 – F126 water issues were raised by the Corporate Investment Committee.4 The IFC Agribusiness Department (CAG) concluded that for the Ica Valley farms, water supply to Agrokasa was adequate and was expected to remain so in the future without relying on new wells to be drilled. This investment in Agrokasa was reviewed according to the...

Complaint > Ficohsa-01/ CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Report: Spanish

...Financial Intermediaries, p.38. 64 IFC, ESRP (versión 4), agosto de 2009, párrafo 7.2.19. 65 Ibid. 66 IFC, ESRP 7 (versión 4), párrafo 2.19 67 CAO (2012) Audit of a Sample of IFC Investments in Third Party Financial Intermediaries, p.38f. 68 IFC, ESRP (versión 4), agosto de 2009, párrafo 7.2.18. 31 Informe de investigación de la CAO C-I-R9-Y13-F190 IFC no cumplió los req...

Complaint > Vizhinjam-01/Kerala

Compliance Report: CAO Compliance Investigation Report, Vizhinjam 01, 02 & 03 - January 23, 2018

...financial intermediary, would be of relevance in the context of CAO’s compliance mandate.17 In the course of this compliance investigation, CAO requested from IFC information in relation to possible IFC exposure to the port construction through investments in banks and funds. IFC did not provide requested information in relation to these issues. As a result, CAO does not further explore this issue as part of the compliance investigation. CAO’s investigation considers the port project as it was c...

Complaint > Eco Oro-01/Bucaramanga

Compliance Report: English

...financial intermediary projects with minimal or no adverse risks.74 Discussion IFC’s investment in the Angostura project is similar to many other IFC early equity investments in junior mining companies. As discussed above in section 3.1, IFC’s early equity approach evaluates the opportunity to provide equity financing once a potentially commercial discovery has been made, to give support to companies to build their capacity to prepare for mine construction.75 Before investing in the project, IFC...