Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...cash compensations to the owners, the ESIA estimated the aging pine trees at 330 USD, while the price of a 75-year-old pine tree in the market is between 4000 and 9000 USD, not to mention the costs of the associated ecosystem resources and the annual fruit yield. This is one example of many that show the unacceptable undervaluation of the agricultural resources, aiming to relieve the stakeholders from accountability. IV. Insufficient Study of Alternatives The United Nations World Water Deve...

Complaint > PT Weda Bay Nickel-01/Weda Bay

Filing: Complaint (English), July 2, 2010

...cash compensation where appropriate; and (ii) provide relocation assistance suited to the needs of each group of displaced persons, with particular attention paid to the needs of the poor and the vulnerable. However what we found was:  The presence of the Tobelo Forest people who live in the region or area of the Contract of Work conflicts with the statement that “it is hoped that there will be no physical dispossession of families from their homes” (V-1) and the claim ...

Complaint > Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Project

Filing: Request for Inspection

...compensation during these closures), • reduced operating loomage, • lost business/customers, • reduced revenue, • significant financial losses due to operating costs exceeding realised revenues, and • difficulties in us eventually acquiring working capital and capital improvement loans and in negotiating viable terms and conditions (due to above operating problems and uncertainties/risks associated with local commercial bank's perceived lac...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Filing: Request for Inspection

...compensation was given in the form of money to a community which had little experience of handling monetary transactions. Even this money was inadequate to reestablish their former living standards or to purchase replacement land and rebuild lost assets. The WB policy on involuntary resettlement recognises the insufficiency of cash compensation particularly in situations such as Singrauli. The policy stresses the importance of land based compensation schemes, even in areas with a high population...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Filing: 89-Request for Inspection (English and Russian)

...cash crop, costs the nation’s children tens of millions of hours of school time annually and exposes the children to serious health and safety risks. The systemic, government orchestrated forced child labor in Uzbekistan has been widely condemned by the International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations (UN) bodies, The European Union (EU), the United States (US), private companies, and a myriad of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In planning for and approving the Second Rural Enterpr...

Complaint > PT Weda Bay Nickel-01/Weda Bay

Filing: Keluhan (Indonesia), 2 Juli, 2010

...cash compensation where appropriate; and (ii) provide relocation assistance suited to the needs of each group of displaced persons, with particular attention paid to the needs of the poor and the vulnerable. Namun yang kami temukan adalah:  Kehadiran Forest Tobelo yang hidup dalam wilayah atau area Kontrak Kerja berlawanan dengan pernyataan bahwa “diharapakan tidak ada penggusuran fisik keluarga-keluarga dari rumah- rumah mereka” (V-1) dan klaim bahwa tidak dibutuhkan a...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Filing: Request for compliance review [PDF]

...cash crops in many villages in the area, the huge adverse impact can easily be imagined. 7. Impact on ground water Another impact reported is that of ground water table having gone down fast in the last few years. In an area with little rain, the gigantic construction projects, along with port & other factories, have withdrawn massive amounts of water from the precious aquifers, depleting them extensively. 8. Labour Issues and Social Unrest The large number of stressed out migrant...

Complaint > IPP4 Al-Manakher Power Project

Filing: Complaint

...compensation. Affected households and communities should also have the opportunity for informed participation in key phases of resettlement planning so that the mitigation of adverse project impacts is appropriate and the potential benefits of resettlement are sustainable. IFC PS#5-GN11 states that Compensation alone does not guarantee the restoration or improvement of the livelihoods and social welfare of displaced households and communities. Restoration and improvement of livelihoods often ...

Complaint > Second National Water Development Project - AdditionalFinancing

Filing: 86-Request for Inspection (English)

...cash   for   credits   on   the   meter   can   be   scarce   at   times.   A   regular   credit   meter   would   allow   the   essential   service   to   continue   for   a   period   in   credit   mode,   whereas   a   cash   poor   individual   would   have   to   suffer  without  water  with  a  prepaid  meter.  The  consequences  can  be  particularly  dire  in   emergency   situations  ...

Complaint > Lonmin-02/Marikana

Filing: Complaint regarding Lonmin project

...cash to create “thriving communities” around Lonmin's projects so that when the platinum was depleted and the miners left, the communities would be “comfortably middle-class” and able to support themselves.” 3.11 Both Parts A and B of this Complaint must be read in light of these assurances. They were assurances given not only to the Board of the IFC, but also to the local communities who would be affected by the ongoing IFC/Lonmin project. The ...

Complaint > Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project and Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project - Additional Financing

Filing: 115-Request for Inspection-26Nov2016

...compensation flowQQcand Q-Qc< Qd),the compensation channel gate is partially open to only permit the minimum compensation flow(Qc) and divert the excess (Q- Qc)to the tunnel intake. The head of water behind the compensation gate contribute to pressure flowt hrough the gate orifice.  At river flows exceeding the required minimum compensation plus maximum diversion flows (i.e. Q>Qc+ Qd), the compensation channel gate is fully closed. The excess...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Filing: 78-Request for Inspection (English)

...Compensation for Lost Agricultural Land OP 4.12 states that “preference should be given to land-based resettlement strategies for displaced persons whose livelihoods are land based.”139 When land is offered, it should be “at least equivalent to the advantages of the land taken.”140 OP 4.12 also provides that when land- based options are not available, “non-land-based options built around opportunities for employment or self-employment should be provided in addition to cash compensation for land ...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Filing: 16-Request for Inspection (English)

...compensation areas to account for these losses, which the EIA claims are "significant", nor are other adequate mitigation measures suggested. It should be noted that 100% of those surveyed in the move- in area expressed concerns about the "cutting of vegetation, which will destroy the ecological environment and the wild animal and plant resources."(EIA para 7.22, page 65) Such a universal concern should have prompted project alternatives to be considered, or mitigation and ecological compensatio...

Complaint > Governance Promotion Adjustment Loan

Filing: 25-Request for Inspection (English)

...cash as well as of migrant workers irreversibly destroys the social fabric of the communities and subjects local people to forced and rapid social and cultural change and reorientation.. Change of diet from fresh produce Io commercial food causes PAGE 1 8 serious health problems while introduced diseases (such as malaria in Guyana) further severely affected local peop...

Complaint > Celulosas de M'Bopicua (CMB) & Orion-01/Argentina & Uruguay

Filing: Complaint

...cash injections into the local economy (since most of the expenses in machinery and profits from production take place abroad). Instead such investments, everywhere they have taken place, have caused tragic environmental degradation, health problems and collapse of local industries, tourism and deterioration of quality of life. Thousands of affected stakeholders have been mobilizing over several years, both in Argentina and in Uruguay to widely oppose the installation of the paper mills at the s...

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

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 28

...compensation. way for large loans for further forestry projects in several States. In 2005, the Given the problems with the previous Bank has pilot “community forestry Bank-financed project, strong management” (CFM) and participatory opposition to the second Bank loan forest management (PFM) projects among many forest-related and beginning in Madhya Pradesh and development NGOs in AP was only Jharkhand states. These pilot projects averted aft...

Complaint > Sustainable Development of Natural Resources - Additional Financing, and Sustainable Development of Natural Resources II

Filing: 83-Second Request for Inspection (English)

...compensation” but did not specify what this would consist of. There have been allegations of corruption in regard to the registration of land ownership in the new location, as well as resistance by the population of the area of relocation who did not want the newcomers and disputed the availability of the land they were to be granted. There are also tribal issues bearing with them the danger of violence erupting if members of one tribal group are forced to settle in an area considered by another...

Complaint > Alex Dev-01/Wadi al-Qamar

Filing: Egypt Alex-Dev Complaint

...compensation. It also violates the standard’s 10 Case no. 13827/66JY, Court of Administrative Justice in Alexandria. 11 Attachment no. 2. requirement to comply with applicable laws and regulations within the company’s jurisdiction, including laws on the implementation of the host country’s obligations under international law, as well as compliance with any legal and contractual obligations. The company’s conduct may be in breach of the Egyptian environmental law and its implementin...