Complaint > Indigenous and Community Biodiversity Project (COINBIO)

Management Response: 30-Management Response (English)

...vices rendered result from a contract for the provision of professional services. With that sort of defense, once the claimants have established that there were elements of subordination and provision of services the Collegiate Tribunals have found merit in the claimants' actions; i.e. faced with a lawsuit of people who rendered their services under a contract for the provision of professional services, the defendant can be affected by a badly argued defense or by a wrong interpretation...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...vice – an active participant in LFI – even promoted logging in Liberia by claiming the sector could produce revenues similar to those generated during periods of unsustainable logging while Taylor was in power.47 LFI planning documents and meeting minutes demonstrate, however, that the Bank and the US closely collaborated during the LFI reform process,48 and at no point is it known that the Bank project management team corrected the Forest Service’s erroneous arguments about revenues. The Liberi...

Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Eligibility: 31-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...vices. The study objective was to compare the performance of pri- vate and public service providers with regard to expansion The study found that both the public and the private utilities of services in low-income areas. The private water and focused their expansion efforts on low income groups (strata sewerage companies operators in Cartagena, Barranquilla, 1 to 3). With respect to wate...

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

Eligibility: 14-Eligibility Report (English)

...vices. Beneficiaries tend to select technicians they feel will produce results for them and, if they are not satisfied, have the freedom to make changes. In contrast, public extension and other technical services typically neglect smallholders, and farmers have little choice about the agent assigned to serve them. 37 4.8 A number of evaluation studies of the Project have been ...

Complaint > Ecodevelopment Project

Eligibility: 11-Eligibility Report (English)

...President, International Development Association EXTENSION: 85120 SUBJECT: INDIA - Ecodevelopment Project (Cr. No. 2916-IN; GEF TGF No. TF028479-IN) Management Response to Request for Inspection 1. Reference is made to the Memorandum dated April 3, 1998, to the President of the International Development Association, by which the Chairman of the Inspection Panel requested Association Management to provide the Panel w...

Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Compliance Review: Review and Assessment (English)

...President, by the then existing office of the Senior Vice President, Operations, in the form of general instructions, supplemented occasionally by “Operational Circulars” or less formal notes from the Senior Vice President, Operations. Following the 1987 reorganization, OMSs were gradually reflected in new documents called “Operational Directives” or “ODs,” some of 1 See ibrahirn F.I. Shihata, The World Bank Inspection Panel, Oxford Univer...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Eligibility: 16-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...Vice President PAD Project Appraisal Document PID Project Information Document PRSP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper QACU Quality Assurance and Compliance Unit QAG Quality Assurance Group RDV Rural Development Department RED Regional Environment Division RESU ...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...president and vice president. M’Ba sought the presidency in March 1967 with Albert Bongo (later Omar) as his running mate. When M’Ba died later that year, Bongo succeeded to office and has retained control ever since. In 1968, Bongo formally converted Gabon to a one-party state, replacing the BDG with the Parti Démocratique Gabonais (PDG). First elected president in his own right in 1975, Bongo has since been reelected four times (in 1979, 1986, 1993, and 1998) for terms of varying length as a r...

Complaint > Transport Sector Support Project and its Additional Financing

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...vices. Dis- A disruption to water supply occurred on November 19, 2018 at Km ruption of utility services. 1+395 when the contractor was excavating drains. Nzoia Water Ser- vices Company Limited (NZOWASCO), responsible for provision of water and sanitation services in the area, had been previously paid to ...

Complaint > Yanacocha-02/Cajamarca

Eligibility: Report of the Independent Evaluation of the Mesa de dialogo y consenso CAO-Cajamarca, May 2005

...Vicepresidente, Gobierno Regional WA, MR - Feb. 17, 2005 Cesar Rodríguez Rabanal Unidad de Prevención de Conflictos de la MR, J - Feb. 15, 2005 Presidencia Del Consejo de Ministros (LIMA) Andres Trigoso Regidor Municipal, Presidente Team Medio WA, MR - Feb. 18, 2005 Ambiente Municipal de Cajamarca Civil Society...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Management Response: 78-Management Response (English)

...presidential crises in 2010 and 2011 and a subsequent compromise across all major parties, President Atifete Jahjaga—Kosovo’s first female, first non-partisan president—is expected to be the last head of state elected indirectly by Parliament. Two commissions are currently finalizing a broad-based overhaul of the Constitution and the Electoral Law to allow, inter alia, for the direct election of the President. On this basis, the next rounds of presidential and general elections are foreseen in 2...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Management Action Plan: 38- Management Progress Report (English)

...Presidential elections of December 2005 and the Government transition in 2006. Project restructuring was approved by the Regional Vice-president on September 24, 2007. The restructuring updated project implementation arrangements to reflect the current national legal and institutional framework, and modified selected outputs related to Component 2 (details of the restructuring are included in Report N o . 41915-HN - Restructuring Project Paper). The Credit amendment reflecting the restructurin...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-Second Management Progress Report

...vice and guidance from the Sector Manager, Sector Director and the Regional Vice President. Following is the progress over the period February-July 2009: (a) Bank: supervision missions. A full-fledged Bank supervision mission, comprising .of professionals from the HQ and the field, took place during July 13-25,2009. The mission reviewed physical progress, and compliance with the environmental and social . safeguards by WAPCo. Particular attention was paid to the review of progress...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-Third Management Progress Report

...vice and guidance from the Sector Manager, Sector Director and the Regional Vice President. Following is the progress: (a) Bank supervision missions. Two full-fledged Bank supervision missions per year, comprising of professionals from the HQ and the field, have been taking place since 2007. The missions have reviewed physical progress, and compliance with the environmental and social safeguards by WAPCo. Particular attention has been paid to the review of progress on the implemen...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Eligibility: 38-Eligibility Report (English)

...Vice-president of Ofraneh and PATH staff, January 13, 2005 (attached) Annex 2.10: Report of dissemination activities conducted by PATH staff in Garífuna areas, January 2005 Annex 2.11: Invitation and minutes of working session to integrate the provisional Inter-Institutional Commission for the demarcation and titling of Garífuna communities, February 24, 2005 (attached) Annex 2.12: Minutes of the creation of the Mesa Regional de Regularizaci...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation (English)

...Vice President of the World Bank for South Asia Region which has 9 annexes. 3 construction related to the Project. Moreover, the Requesters believe the reservoir will “cause fog and disease” and that it will negatively impact land situated around the reservoir. 17. Livelihoods impact. The Requesters state the “dam will reduce the benefits people have from the river”, such as, for example, obtaining sand or fish from the river. They als...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Eligibility: 44-Eligibility Report (English)

...Vice President and General Counsel to Edward S. Ayensu, Chair, Inspection Panel, March 5, 2002, entitled “Third and Fourth Power Projects and the Bujagali Hydropower Project in the Republic of Uganda: Legal Advice in Response to Request by Inspection Panel.” 14 development [in the Kalagala Falls] will be conditional upon a satisfactory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)”. In other words, as with the prior prop...

Complaint > None

Policy Document: Complaints Mechanism Principles, Terms of Reference, and Rules of Procedure (CMPTR)

...vices of the EIB as well as with the competent services of the European Ombudsman. 5.2 Concerns expressed by civil society organisations as well as suggestions of internationally-reputed consultancies specialised in the field of accountability have been duly taken into account and the EIB complaints mechanism has been adapted accordingly with a view to incorporating the appropriate inputs. 5.3 The current Principles, Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure underwent a formal public consu...

Complaint > Salala Rubber Corporation-01/Margibi and Bong

Filing: CAO Complaint - Liberia - Salala Rubber Corporation 01

...Vice President Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman International Finance Corporation 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20433 USA Fax: (+1) (202) 522-7400 Email: cao-compliance@ifc.org April 15th, 2019 Re: Salala Rubber Corporation’s (Socfin) involvement in human rights and environmental violations in its rubber plantation’s land acquisition and expansion in Liberia. Dear Vice President Gratacos, 1. We are indigenous peoples from communities in the following towns and villages: Gl...

Complaint > Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project for Low Income States - Second Request

Management Response: Management Response (English)

...vices to rural areas where such services are now non-existent. It targets poor populations, areas where water sources are contaminated, and areas with high tribal populations. The MVSs introduce a new service level in rural areas, with 24/7 availability, water meters, and a new management model, based on public-private partnerships for a DBOT contract including O&M for a period of five years. At the state level, the Project is supporting the state government in putting in place policies for sust...