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

Compliance Report: English

...Vice President (EVP)1 of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), for the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) to audit IFC’s environmental categorization of the Amaggi Expansion Project in Brazil The Amaggi Expansion Project was sponsored by a Brazilian company, Grupo André Maggi Participaçoes Limitada. The company has agricultural, industrial and export/transport operations in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia and Amazonas, and is involved in the production, processi...

Complaint > Ficohsa-01/ CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...President. The President has no editorial input as to the content of the compliance Investigation Report, but may take the opportunity to discuss the investigation findings with CAO. Once the President is satisfied with the response by IFC/MIGA senior management, the President will provide clearance for the Investigation Report and the response. The President retains discretion over clearance. After clearance, CAO will disclose the Investigation Report and the IFC/MIGA response to the Board. CAO...

Complaint > CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 1

Compliance Report: CRP Final Report (English)

...Vice-President, Operations 1; the directors general of CWRD and RSDD; and the General Counsel. 12. On 20 June 2011, the CRP determined that the request was eligible and recommended that the Board authorize a compliance review, which it did on 20 July 2011. The CRP cleared its terms of reference (TOR) and the time frame for compliance review with the Board Compliance Review Committee on 22 August 2011 (Appendix 2), and provided the TOR to the Board and on the CRP website on 24 August 2...

Complaint > Dinant-01/CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...Vice President in April 2012.2 The CAO Vice President triggered the compliance process having received a letter of complaint regarding the project submitted to the President of the World Bank Group in November 2010,3 and following conversations between CAO and non-government organizations (NGOs). Key allegations made regarding the project were that:  IFC’s client (Dinant) conducted, facilitated or supported forced evictions of farmers in the lower Aguán Valley (or Bajo Aguán); ...

Complaint > Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project

Compliance Report: CRP Final Report (English)

...Vice-President (Operations 2) and the Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development the project documents and files and a list of ADB staff involved in project preparation and implementation. The CRP also determined that the operational policies and procedures in question could be found in the 1995 Policy on Involuntary Resettlement and Section F2 on involuntary resettlement in the Operations Manual (29 October 2003). 17. The CRP reviewed the project documents and fil...

Complaint > Visayas Base-Load Power Project

Compliance Report: CRP Final Report [PDF] (Management Response and Requester Response to CRP Draft Report are attached)

...Vice-President, Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development Ms. Lakshmi Venkatachalam, Vice-President, Private Sector and Cofinancing Operations Mr. Andrew Collins, Alternate Executive Director, Board of Directors, ADB Mr. Jose Miguel Cortes, Alternate Executive Director, Board of Directors, ADB Mr. Siraj Shamsuddin, Alternate Executive Director, Board of Directors, ADB Mr. Bounleau Sinxayvolavong, Alternate Executive Director, Board of Directors, ADB Mr. Michele Miari Fulcis, Execut...

Complaint > Mining Development and Environmental Control Assistance Project

Compliance Report: 20-Investigation Report (English)

...vice would be to make sure, at minimum, that all comments made at the meeting are incorporated in the negotiations package. Others should be incorporated to the extent possible.”106 On March 25, 1993, LATEN cleared the Project for negotiation. The cover memorandum dated March 29, 1993 seeking authorization to negotiate from the LAC Vice President on the pre-negotiations package informs him that the “recommendations and suggestions...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Compliance Report: 38-Investigation Report (English)

...vice president of Huachiew Chalermprakiat University; then joined the Thailand Environment Institute (TEI) as vice president. In 1998, Mr. Onchan was appointed president of TEI. He helped establish and was appointed president of the Mekong Environment and Resource Institute (MERI) in 2000. He has served as advisor to the Prime Minister and to the Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, as member of the National Environmental Board, chairman of the National EIA Committee, chairman of the...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Compliance Report: 16-Investigation Report (English)

...VICE PRESIDENT, Memo to Director RMT “Compliance with Safeguard Policies” (3 June 1998). Attached to it was a separate memorandum from the Managing Directors to Operational Vice Presidents, headed “Operational Policy Reform: Compliance with Safeguard Policies.” 118 See EAPVP Regional Vice President, supra note 117. 72 176. One of these experts informed the Panel that from the time that ...

Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Compliance Report: 23-Annexes to Investigation Report (English)

...President of the Pan-African Union for Science and Technology, and International Vice Chairman of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). He is an international development advisor on environment, energy, mining, housing, biotechnology and agriculture. He was Senior Advisor to the President and Director for Central Projects Department of the African Development Bank. He was formerly the Vice-chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global ...

Complaint > Quellaveco Mining-01/Moquegua

Compliance Report: English

...Vice President. The Memorandum sought approval to proceed with the proposed sale of 100 percent of IFC’s shares in the Company, and noted that details would be reported in the next Monthly Operations Report to the Board. The Memorandum records the approval status of the equity sale. It is clear that the sale was cleared by the Portfolio team, the Equity Department, the Legal Department, and the relevant Vice President. No reference is made in the Memorandum to the environmental and social 43 ...

Complaint > Sao Jose dos Campos Urban Structuring Program

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...Vice President for Countries; Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge; Manager of the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector; Manager of the Infrastructure and Energy Sector; Manager of the Southern Cone Countries; Representative in Brazil; Chief of the Environmental Safeguards Unit; Chief of the Transportation Division; and Chief of the Sovereign-guaranteed Operations Division of...

Complaint > Sao Jose dos Campos Urban Structuring Program

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...Vice President for Countries; Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge; Manager of the Climate Change and Sustainable Development Sector; Manager of the Infrastructure and Energy Sector; Manager of the Southern Cone Countries; Representative in Brazil; Chief of the Environmental Safeguards Unit; Chief of the Transportation Division; and Chief of the Sovereign-guaranteed Operations Division of...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, Management of the Petroleum Economy Project, and Petroleum Sector Management Capacity Building Project

Compliance Report: 22-Investigation Report (English)

...President of the Pan-African Union for Science and Technology, and International Vice Chairman of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). He is an international development advisor on environment, energy, mining, housing, biotechnology and agriculture. He was Senior Advisor to the President and Director for Central Projects Department of the African Development Bank. He was formerly the Vice-Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Envi...

Complaint > Integrated Citarum Water Resources Management Investment Program 2

Compliance Report: CRP Final Report (English)

...Vice President, Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development 3. Stephen Groff, Vice President, Operations 2 4. Kunio Senga, Director General, Southeast Asia Department (SERD) 5. James Nugent, Deputy Director General, SERD 6. Jon Lindborg, Country Director, Indonesia Resident Mission (IRM) 7. Nessim Ahmad, Director, Environment and Safeguards Division, Regional and Sustainable Development Department (RSDD) 8. Javed Hussain Mir, Director, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture D...

Complaint > Paraguay/Argentina Reform Project for the Water and Telecommunication Sectors, SEGBA V Power Distribution Project (Yacyreta)

Compliance Report: 26-Investigation Report (English)

...Vice President of Huachiew Chalermprakiat University; then joined the Thailand Environment Institute (TEI) as Vice President. In 1998, Mr. Onchan was appointed President of TEI. He helped establish and was appointed President of the Mekong Environment and Resource Institute (MERI) in 2000. He has served as advisor to the Prime Minister and to the Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, as member of the National Environmental Board, Chairman of the National EIA Committee, and member of ...

Complaint > Avianca-01/Bogota

Compliance Report: English

...President, the CAO Vice President or senior management of IFC/MIGA. CAO compliance investigations focus on IFC/MIGA, and how IFC/MIGA assured itself of project environmental and social (E&S) performance. The purpose of a CAO compliance investigation is to ensure compliance with policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, and conditions for IFC/MIGA involvement, and thereby improve E&S performance. In the context of a CAO compliance investigation, at issue is whether:  The actual E&S outc...

Complaint > Vizhinjam-01/Kerala

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

...vices.”91 The concept of ecosystem services encompasses different types of benefits that people and businesses obtain from ecosystems. In relation to fisheries, for example, these include provisioning services, which are the products people obtain from ecosystems (such as food) and supporting services which are the natural processes that maintain the other services. PS6 also recognizes cultural services, which are the nonmaterial benefits that people obtain from ecosystems.92 They may include na...

Complaint > Togo LCT-01/Lome

Compliance Report: English

...President, the CAO Vice President or senior management of IFC/MIGA. CAO compliance investigations focus on IFC/MIGA, and how IFC/MIGA assured itself of a project’s E&S performance. The purpose of a CAO Compliance investigation is to ensure compliance with policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, and conditions for IFC/MIGA involvement, and thereby improve the institution’s E&S performance. In the context of a CAO compliance investigation, at issue is whether:  the actual E&S outcom...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, and Petroleum Environment Capacity Enhancement Project

Compliance Report: 27-Investigation Report (English)

...President of the Pan-African Union for Science and Technology, and International Vice Chairman of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). He is an international development advisor on environment, energy, mining, housing, biotechnology and agriculture. He was Senior Advisor to the President and Director for Central Projects Department of the African Development Bank. He was formerly the Vice-Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Envi...