Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Other: Press Release

...children and communities, including many cases of child sexual abuse and teenage pregnancies caused by road workers, an increased presence of sex workers, the spread of HIV/AIDS, sexual harassment of female employees, inadequate resettlement practices, a lack of road safety, and negative construction impacts. The Inspection Panel confirmed the claims, and identified a substantial number of instances of the Bank not complying with its own policies and procedures. The Panel found that Bank managem...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project 2

Filing: Request for compliance review [PDF](attachments are available upon request from Chair, CRP at crp@adb.org)

...children have stopped going to school. Both younger and older children are affected, but while there is a primary school nearby, there is no secondary school so teenage children are more likely to have dropped out. Parents reported noticing a regression in children’s grades or skills, including reading. In some cases children are working to supplement household income instead of attending school. ...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-04/Bujagali

Appraisal: Appraisal of IFC investment in Bujagali Energy (IFC Project #24408) and MIGA guarantee of World Power Holdings (MIGA Project #6732), Uganda, (CAO Complaints 04 and 06), April 8, 2015

...child labor, etc.) and requires the company to comply with national laws, including the Employment Act, 2006 (Act No. 6). The LFMP also requires contractor and subcontractor to abide by similar requirements. The Employment Act allows workers to file a complaint with a labor officer (Commissioner or a District Labor officer) in cases when an employer neglects or refuses to fulfill the terms of a contract of employment. A labor officer may institute civil or criminal proceedings before the Industr...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-06/Bujagali

Appraisal: Appraisal of IFC investment in Bujagali Energy (IFC Project #24408) and MIGA guarantee of World Power Holdings (MIGA Project #6732), Uganda, (CAO Complaints 04 and 06), April 8, 2015

...child labor, etc.) and requires the company to comply with national laws, including the Employment Act, 2006 (Act No. 6). The LFMP also requires contractor and subcontractor to abide by similar requirements. The Employment Act allows workers to file a complaint with a labor officer (Commissioner or a District Labor officer) in cases when an employer neglects or refuses to fulfill the terms of a contract of employment. A labor officer may institute civil or criminal proceedings before the Industr...

Complaint > Accelerating Infrastructure Investment Facility in India - Tranche 1

Filing: Complaint

...Labor Standards, no explicit ratification is needed for them to be part of the legislative framework of a country. The Core Labor Standards consist of (a) freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining, (b) the abolition of all forms of forced or compulsory labor, (c) the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation, and (d) the elimination of child labor. All Asian and Pacific DMCs,6by virtue of...

Complaint > Mining Infrastructure Investment Support and Mining Infrastructure Support - Additional Financing

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...labor influx. Management in its Response states that it takes risks related to labor influx on the safety and security of women and girls very seriously. Management argues that labor influx is not related to the Project, since MINIS only provides technical assistance. While the TPP is not supported by MINIS, Management has discussed with the Government of Mongolia concerns about the social impacts of a large labor influx during construction. 18 Furthermore, according to Management, the CIA will ...

Complaint > Mining Infrastructure Investment Support and Mining Infrastructure Support - Additional Financing

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...labor influx. Management in its Response states that it takes risks related to labor influx on the safety and security of women and girls very seriously. Management argues that labor influx is not related to the Project, since MINIS only provides technical assistance. While the TPP is not supported by MINIS, Management has discussed with the Government of Mongolia concerns about the social impacts of a large labor influx during construction. 18 Furthermore, according to Management, the CIA will ...

Complaint > Mining Infrastructure Investment Support and Mining Infrastructure Support - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Response

...labor influx 50. Management takes risks related to labor influx very seriously, particularly in relation to the safety and security of girls and women. While such risks are not related to the Project, which is only providing technical assistance, the CIA will consider labor influx issues, including the types of concerns that have been raised by the Requesters. 51. Although the Baganuur power plant is not supported by MINIS, Management has nevertheless discussed with the GoM at the mini...

Complaint > Mining Infrastructure Investment Support and Mining Infrastructure Support - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Response

...labor influx 50. Management takes risks related to labor influx very seriously, particularly in relation to the safety and security of girls and women. While such risks are not related to the Project, which is only providing technical assistance, the CIA will consider labor influx issues, including the types of concerns that have been raised by the Requesters. 51. Although the Baganuur power plant is not supported by MINIS, Management has nevertheless discussed with the GoM at the mini...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Management Action Plan: 32-Sixth Management Progress Report

...Child care centers, 39 schools, education facilities run by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (universal literacy campaign), and private schools in and around the R&R sites benefit over 9,500 school age children. The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) runs a health center at Anik in rooms provided by MMRDA; a maternity care cum health center is under construction at Mankhurd; and a community hall at Majaj has been constructed. Internal street lights have been provided with the agreement that the...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Management Action Plan: 32-Fifth Management Progress Report

...children. Some 9,499 children receive education at 39 formal schools located in and 7 around MUTP resettlement sites and child care centers established within the resettlement buildings. MMRDA has set up a community center at the Majas site which will double as a primary health care center and has provided flour mills at different R&R sites. MMRDA has transferred the required number of rooms at Anik resettlement site to the MCGM, where it has starte...

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

Management Response: 26-Management Response (English)

...child care facilities, community centers, child/youth development, among others. While the Project is demand-based and all eligible populations can access the project, geographic targeting of eligible communities will be used to identify priority areas for further institutional and organizational development assistance to ensure that vulnerable non-organized groups and municipalities with scarce resources have a fair opportunity to access project resources. Potential beneficiaries will be s...

Complaint > Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project

Dispute Resolution: English

...labor, some work outside Fuzhou City and in other provinces, and one person has a permanent job with the local government. All of them have identification cards and residence registration books12 from their home towns. Two complainants seem to have residence certificates for Fuzhou City. The complainants explained that they have no houses anywhere else and nowhere to go since they have lived in the current location for the past 15 years. The land for the seven houses was acquired in two plots in...

Complaint > El Dorado International Airport

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...child labor in its agricultural operations. In this example, it is inconceivable that, if the Bank is considering financing Party B, the Bank and Party B would be able to ignore and distance themselves from the potential risks associated with the use of child labor by the agricultural business and claim that these risks are beyond the scope of OP-703. The Bank-financed expansion supports the entire agricultural business, and the risk that child labor will be used increases as a result of such ex...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project 2

Compliance Report: CRP’s Final Report in English, in Khmer [PDF] (Management's Response and Requester's Response to the CRP's Draft Report are attached)

...children. More than likely, this has affected his ability to support the family. The CRP visited this home and found it to be in poor condition compared with the other houses at the resettlement site. The family has other children, who are equally poorly off. The loss of these two children represents, among others, a loss of future income and support for this family. 112. The child in Poipet who died on the way home from school was in a comparable situation. There was a longer distance between t...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89-Отчет и рекомендации Инспекционного совета (на русском)

...Child labor: issues and directions for the World Bank”, Peter Fallon and Zafiris Tzannatos, 1998, Executive Summary, pp. vi-viii. 26 Неофициальный перевод с английского между фермерами и Финансовыми организациями, будет расширено, и в него будет также включено условие, касающееся принудительного труда взр...

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

Eligibility: 26-Eligibility Report (English)

...child care facilities, community centers, child/youth development, among others. While the Project is demand-based and all eligible populations can access the project, geographic targeting of eligible communities will be used to identify priority areas for further institutional and organizational development assistance to ensure that vulnerable non-organized groups and municipalities with scarce resources have a fair opportunity to access project resources. Potential beneficiaries will be s...

Complaint > Productive Infrastructure Program - Request II: Caracol Industrial Park (MICI)

Filing: Complaint

...children. Post-displacement, victims have found it difficult to finance their children’s education as a result of the loss of income.234 Unfortunately, as a result of these financial difficulties, it is likely that female children suffered disproportionately a loss of education: victims are likely to have prioritized their male children for education, with female children expected to take on tasks at home.235 Better inclusion of the views of women would likely have raised the priority of food se...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Compliance Report: 65-Investigation Report (English)

...laborers, land The Panel‘s assessment is that the issue of impacts of the Medupi Power Plant on development and local impacts the local municipality and public services for which the Municipality is responsible is serious, and potentially detrimental to the rights and interests of the Requesters. Claim: concerns about social and The Panel finds that the EIA accepted by Management did not adequately identify environmental effects of labor ...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Management Action Plan: 32-First Management Progress Report

...children in eight resettlement sites, including Anik and Mankhurd, with information on the number of children going to school, schools available around R&R sites, and gaps between needs and existing facilities. The data indicate that about 3,964 children (74 percent) out of 5,364 children surveyed have received admission in schools in and around the new resettlement sites, while 1,169 (22 percent) children continue to go to schools at the old resettlement sites because of the quality of educatio...