Complaint > Maritsa East Mines (BEH Bond Issue)

Filing: Complaint

...compensation – we are offered either cash or like-for-like buildings that are more than 15 km from the municipal center center, close to TPP2. On the method of assessing compensation - there is no such method yet apart from the regular sale at the moment, where assessors evaluate and their assessment is further examined and accepted by the Maritsa East Mines. The company decides whether they will lower or increase the values given in the evaluation without clear methodology. Additional infrastru...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Filing: Request for compliance review

...compensation and rehabilitation measures.”9 ADB has failed to ensure that: “In preparing the resettlement planning documents,…the borrower… take into account the views of affected groups and civil society groups where relevant, including nongovernment organizations.”10 The ADB has failed to ensure “a revised resettlement plan resulting from a detailed technical design or change in scope of the project” has been made available to AHs11 and/or it has failed to assist in the preparation of re...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Filing: Request for compliance review

...compensation for their lost or partly lost structures and/or assets based on the Detailed Measurement Survey (DMS). According to the RPs totally affected households required to relocate were to be provided with three options: (1) relocation to project-sponsored sites with security of tenure, (2) re-organization onsite in the ROW with a guarantee of being able to remain there for at least the next 5 years, and (3) cash compensation for lost assets and self-arranged relocation. Vulnerable hou...

Complaint > India Infrastructure Fund-01/Dhenkanal District

Filing: Letter of Complaint from Odisha Chas Parivesh Surekhsa Parishad and the Delhi Forum, April 15, 2011

...compensation of INR 500,000 per acre which are below the price of non-irrigated land in Angul district acquired by Jindal Steel and Power (they paid INR 700,000 per acre) Occupants/owners of the irrigated land still have not received land compensation. Around eighteen percent (18%) of the families listed by the Land Acquisition Office of Dhenkanal as families whose agricultural land was acquired have not received their compensation. 2.4.5 The company also forc...

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

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...Cash and Diamond/Gold Smuggling The DRC has not implemented feasible measures to detect or monitor the physical cross-border transportation of cash or diamonds. Similar to other war-torn countries with porous borders, smuggling bulk capital figures as an important component of illicit finance schemes. With numerous, poorly policed border checkpoints and airport facilities, the DRC offers enormous opportunities for bulk cash and 96 Interview with owner of unregistered money transfer shop, 19 ...

Complaint > Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Investment Program

Filing: Complaint

...cash income for Effected People) number of people and on the environment. The EIA does not assess such impacts and how they will be mitigated. 8. Due to the induction of large number of outsiders in the villages, we, particularly the women among us are feeling that their security and privacy would be seriously affected. Women regularly go into the forest to collect herbs, grass, and fodder and for cattle grazing and other purposes. Many of them also stay for long periods of time in the fo...

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 > 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 percei...

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 ...

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 En...

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 dibutu...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Filing: Request for compliance review

...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 ...

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  particula...

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 > 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 > 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 ...

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 lo...