Complaint > Bujagali Energy-07/Bujagali

Compliance Review: English

...compensation rates that varied along the transmission line route. Unexpected high inflation levels also potentially undermined compensation values in the lead up to payment, affecting those who agreed to compensation only later in the process. Most significantly, unprecedented levels of speculation, involving a range of strategies aimed at making false claims for crop damages to gain cash compensation, challenged UETCL's efforts to fairly compensate legitimately affected people. Widespread specu...

Complaint > BTC Pipeline-13/Tsalka

Eligibility: English

...compensation to Complainants on 6 June 2004 of treatment facilities and by enforcing the discharge household items damaged in flooding, in lieu of cash payment. standards. Complainants accepted in-kind compensation. Lack of consistency in logging grievances by SPJV has SPJV assisted ...

Complaint > CBG-01/Sangaredi

Filing: CAO Complaint - Guinea / CBG-01 - English

...compensation for losses Where economic displacement (i.e. from productive land) cannot be avoided, PS 5 requires IFC’s client to offer affected persons with legally recognizable rights under national law replacement property (e.g. agricultural sites) of equal or greater value, or where appropriate, cash compensation at full replacement cost and other assistance to help them restore their livelihoods. 28 The issue of replacement property and cash compensation is discussed here. Livelihood impacts...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-05/Bujagali

Closing Report: Dispute Resolution Conclusion Report Bujagali-05, July 2018 - English

...Cash payments completed compensation. Twenty claims brought by 131 17 individuals were withdrawn or resolved and confirmed by CAO as a result of this information-sharing Zero compensation accepted 7 process. The individual complaints were then narrowed down to 16. Compensation rejected ...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-07/Bujagali

Compliance Report: English

...cash compensation based on 2006 rates would not enable affected people to acquire replacement land. Following a site visit in October 2011, the PoE noted that a number of disputes over compensation remained and raised the question as to “whether the compensation rates offered actually represent full replacement value.” The PoE noted the need for UETCL to demonstrate that “compensation offered represents full replacement value.” 60 CAO attempted to verify a sample of the compensation payments and...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-02/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...Compensation!Claims!Committee!(CCC)!to!opine!on!claims!to!be! retrospectively!included!in!2004!or!2011!compensation.! • !Herders!in!the!groups!listed!in!‘Recommendations:!Compensation’!should!be!entitled!to! present!claims!for!compensation!to!the!Compensation!Claims!Committee.!!! ! In!order!to!ensure!that!compensation!is!capable!of!assisting!herders!move!to!sustainable!livelihoods:! • Those!households!compensated!in!2004!that!no!longer!have!a!household!member...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-01/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...Compensation!Claims!Committee!(CCC)!to!opine!on!claims!to!be! retrospectively!included!in!2004!or!2011!compensation.! • !Herders!in!the!groups!listed!in!‘Recommendations:!Compensation’!should!be!entitled!to! present!claims!for!compensation!to!the!Compensation!Claims!Committee.!!! ! In!order!to!ensure!that!compensation!is!capable!of!assisting!herders!move!to!sustainable!livelihoods:! • Those!households!compensated!in!2004!that!no!longer!have!a!household!member...

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 > Strominvest II-01/Minsk

Appraisal: CAO Compliance Appraisal Report Strominvest - March 2018 - English

...compensation, in cash or in-kind, provided to the local residents.6 The complainants submitted a YouTube video from September 2015, in which they raise these issues with the city authorities and the client during an information session on the Timiriazeva project.7 According to the complainants and the company 150-200 people would be displaced if the project goes ahead. 1 IFC. Summary of Proposed Investment, Strominvest/Erilin (#26107). See https://goo.gl/RpiyYa 2 Tvoya Stolitsa. Company Servic...

Complaint > Vizhinjam-01/Kerala

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

...cash compensation for certain groups of project affected fishermen, the ESIA included no discussion of compensation for impacts on tourism-based livelihoods. The ESIA did, however, include a direction that the Tourism Impact Assessment should evaluate the status of each resort under the CRZ notification requirements and specified that entitlements should be determined based on the legality of resorts. CAO Investigation Report: IFC Advisory Services Project with VISL ...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-07/Bujagali

Appraisal: CAO Compliance Appraisal Report - Bujagali-07

...compensation. The RCDAP stated that this information was explained to PAPs who were identified and surveyed individually, as well as to the land board and the land committees. The RCDAP covered key aspects of a resettlement action plan and addressed potential issues in its implementation including previous resettlement actions, speculative activity, risks of cash compensation programs and economic displacement issues. The RCDAP provided information regarding calculations for compensation relatin...

Complaint > Eleme Fertilizer-01/Port Harcourt

Eligibility: CAO Assessment Report - Nigeria / Eleme Fertilizer 01 - February 2019

...compensation rates and structures. According to the Complainants, the Company advertised the new grade system as being favorable to all Nigerian employees but in fact, they were downgraded in order to justify the salary disparity between them and their foreign counterparts performing the same job function. However, the actual job scope was not changed in order to align with the downgrade. In the same way they did in August 2017, the employees rejected...

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 > Tata Tea-02/Assam

Eligibility: CAO Assessment Report_Tata Tea-02_November _2013 - English

...compensation, poor hygiene and health conditions, and restricted freedom of association among plantation workers. Furthermore, the complainants question the worker share-buying program, contending workers have been pressured into buying shares, often without proper information about the risks of such an investment. The complainants initially requested confidentiality and so did the three NGOs from Assam that had filed the complaint on behalf of tea workers, and during the assessment, the three N...

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 > Real LRIF-01/Coban

Compliance Report: English

...cash compensation. Where economically displaced persons do not have legally recognizable claims to land they should be “compensated for lost assets other than land (such as crops, irrigation infrastructure and other improvements made to 73 Q’eqchi’ people are reported to believe that the Tzuultaq’a (a spirit) lives inside the mountains, more specifically in caves; however, other natural features such as ridges, springs and rivers are also recognized as manifestations of the Tzuultaq’a. See Grand...

Complaint > Lukoil Overseas-01/Berezovka

Eligibility: English

...cash compensation. The CAO was unable to ascertain what proportion of the village seeks resettlement. CAO Findings The Complainants see the Tungush resettlement as a precedent and expect KPO to take responsibility for the fact that they have not been resettled (see Appendix 5 for resettlement timeline). There was no technical requirement for the Tangush resettlement as a result of the project’s activities but KPO has become implicated as a result of a request to implement a resettlement plan by ...

Complaint > PT Weda Bay Nickel-01/Weda Bay

Eligibility: Ombudsman Assessment Report: Complaint Regarding the MIGA PT Weda Bay Nickel Project (#8113), Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, June 2011

...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 > 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 > Quellaveco Mining-01/Moquegua

Compliance Report: English

...cash calls to maintain stake at 18%. November IFC BTO Report - Describes forthcoming rights issue as category A. Reviews project against 2006 PSs identifying gaps. These include the absence of Stakeholder Engagement Plan and concerns regarding land acquisition and economic displacement of indigenous Aymara shepherds simultaneously with the preparation of a social baseline and a Resettlement Action Plan. 2008 July IFC Boa...