Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Eligibility: 60-Management Report and Recommendations Map 4

...UNKNOWN Battambang COMMUNES IN WHICH LAND TITLING OCCURRED M ekong 13° N ...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Eligibility: 60-Management Report and Recommendations Map 2

...UNKNOWN Thailand PROVINCE Sras Chok COMMUNES IN WHICH LAND TITLING OCCURRED Ruessei Kaev Rues...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report Executive Summary

...unknown. Such an analysis would have helped to prevent the lack of transparency in the way compensation payments were made. The Panel further observes that the number of displaced persons reported in the RAP was determined using a figure for “average” household size which the RAP itself notes is “surprisingly low.” The Panel expert determined that the size of the displaced population seems to be underestimated as a result of the methodology used for their identification. ...

Complaint > Greater Beirut Water Supply Project

Management Response: 71-Management Commissioned Studies-Technical Review of Source Water Quantity

...unknown are on the left: Inflows – Losses = Increase in Storage + Known Outflows The left hand side “Inflows – Losses” is a single quantity and the two subcomponents cannot be separated as the losses are unknown. The left‐hand side can be characterized as “net inflows” since it represents flows inclusive of losses. The principle in this simple case also applies when computing a water balance for a more complex system. c) Canal 800 Canal 800 is not included in this review because the pla...

Complaint > Trade and Transport Studies RETF Project

Registration: 111-Notice of Non-Registration

...unknown. We wish to reiterate that the concerned feasibility study process has been in clear violation of the indigenous peoples' rights and norms under regional, national and international law, and also not in conformity with the process required under the relevant safeguard policies of the World Bank, including OP/BP 4.10. The study project included the following, among others, departures from expected steps and measures: (i) failure to engage in a process of free, prior, and informed con...

Complaint > Third Power Project, Fourth Power Project, and proposed Bujagali Hydropower Project

Filing: 24-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown. Hence no prior EIAs were done for the Old Owen falls dam. This is further compounded by the fact that todate no post-construction EIA has been done for the old Owen Falls Dam. The World Bank admitted at the July 17th–18th, 2001 public forum on the Bujagali Dam project (held in Washington DC) that there was no formal EIA for the Owen Falls Extension Project, which has received World Bank support. It appears that this project design was based on flawed assumption about the hydrology, whic...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 1st Request

Filing: 14-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown at the time of the original Request (Paragraph 14D). The Forum feels that the documents present new evidence which reflects distortions in the purpose of the Cédula da Terra Project, endowing this request with technical eligibility. In view of this, and as new facts have become known, all from official sources and including the attached document, we once again request that an Inspection Panel be established for the Project under consideration based on the World Bank Resolution that estab...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Compliance Report: 60-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown, the Panel is extremely concerned about the large number of people who were forcibly evicted, displaced, or are under threat of eviction in Project areas. The Panel found that due to lack of a robust monitoring and evaluation system for the Project, Bank Management did not become aware of significant issues arising from the Project, which does not comply with Bank policy. Additional Observations. The Panel wishes to underscore that it considers the Bank’s engagement on land issues in Cam...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Eligibility: 60-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...unknown”5 ownership. 22. Negotiations between the Government and a private developer had started in 2005. Despite assertions that the land in question was State Public Land, and hence could not be claimed through legal possession by residents, plans for private development of the BKL area were well advanced prior to the declaration of the area as an Adjudication Area. Copies of 4 Management requested a Lead Counsel from the Environmental and International Law Unit (LEGEN), and a Se...

Complaint > Jute Sector Adjustment Credit Project

Management Action Plan: Report on Progress on Implementation of the Erosion and Flood Action Plan

...unknown potential impacts of the Management Consultants and the Bank project on them. to discuss the possibility of revision to the EFAP impact area. It was agreed 25. Failure to involve people affected that the develo,pments in this regard will by the project has caused confusion over be reviewed after submission of the final which areas are included in the northern report on the ‘Study of the Mathematical impact erosion area. This confusi...

Complaint > Amaravati Sustainable Capital City Development Project

Registration: 114-Notice of Non-Registration-Updated 6 July 2017

...unknown elements, and those resisting the scheme have been jailed. 12. The Requesters state Land Pooling is happening under the AP Capital Region Development Authority Act (CRDA), 2014. They state CRDA 2014 is against the Constitution of India and contrary to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RTFCTLARR, 2013; also known as Land Acquisition Act, 2013) which provides for fair and reasonable compensation. The...

Complaint > Mine Closure and Social Mitigation Project

Management Response: 39-Management Response (English)

...unknown to the mine closure contractor until the slippage. As a result, a modification to the waste dump closure design was required. A series of options was considered and a risk assessment was conducted by international experts in 2003. The designer prepared a new design and submitted it to the CGMC for review and approval in December 2003. The modification included a requirement to move at least 43,000m3 of material from the dump, re-profiling of the upper flanks of the waste dump, and constr...

Complaint > Greater Beirut Water Supply Project

Management Response: 71-Management Commissioned Studies-Project Cost Estimates, Financial and Economic Analyses

...unknown, and Bank experience with high dams in karsitic environments signaled significant geological risks and a high risk that the pre-feasibility cost estimates would need significant upward revision46; and (iii) additional raw water sources were known to be needed in a second stage project, and moving forward with the Awali option did not foreclose later development of the Damour. OP 10.04 asks that Bank teams, when considering alternatives, take starting dates into account (para. 3). It high...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Eligibility: 60-Eligibility Report (English)

...unknown”, which seems to be the classification that is generally used for State Public Land in a titling process. However, Management also adds that based on information it gathered, only the villages around BKL area were demarcated and no demarcation of individual parcels took place. Moreover, only one title (for a public gas depot) was issued in the 12 Management Response, ¶ 95. 13 Management Response, ¶ 48. 14 Management Response, ¶ 48. ...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Filing: 44-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown whether Lake Victoria will recharge to the high levels and outflow experienced during the 1961-2000 period. It is also not known whether such a recharge will occur in the next few years or in the next 100 years. A 2005 report2 by Water Resources and Energy Management International Inc., a US consultancy commissioned by the Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, predicts that climate change could dramatically reduce the lake's levels and therefore outflow to ...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown. Such an analysis would have helped to prevent the lack of transparency in the way compensation payments were made. The Panel further observes that the number of displaced persons reported in the RAP was determined using a figure for “average” household size which the RAP itself notes is “surprisingly low.” The Panel expert determined that the size of the displaced population seems to be underestimated as a result of the methodology used for their identification. ...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...unknown the potentially damaging consequences of a project supporting large-scale, concession-based logging. 3) Failure to Publish an Environmental Assessment: OP 4.01. The Bank has failed to publish the Environmental Assessment it has commissioned, denying affected communities the ability to determine the project’s social and environmental impact. 4) Violation of Bank’s Forest Policy: OP 4.36; BP 4.36. The Bank violated its Forest Policy by promoting a ...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Response: 40-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...unknown. 4 Management Report and Recommendation - The size of the displaced population seems to be underestimated as a result of the methodology used for their identification. - Bank Management failed to ensure that the Sponsor performed an adequate analysis of socio-economic risks to vulnerable people. This does not comply with OP 4.12, and denied these people protections provi...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Management Response: 60-Management Response (English)

...unknown”. This appears to be the classification that is generally used when State Public Land is encountered during the titling process as well as when land is subject to a dispute that cannot be resolved during the titling process at the field level. • On the basis of information currently available, it seems that only one title was issued in the name of the State as a result of the systematic adjudication process. Management understands that one title wa...

Complaint > Mongolia Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Investment Support - Additional Financing

Filing: 102 - Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown whether and how stakeholder comments were taken into consideration in further development of those TOR. • The Shuren Hydro design on which all hydrological and economic calculations were based was known to threaten the huge water intake facility of Erdenet city. Threatening public water supply • Shuren Project personnel knew that, but until summer 2014 they did not disclose ...