Complaint > Red Sea - Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study Program

Eligibility: 76-Report and Recommendation (English)

...unknown and is extremely difficult to model and predict.” The TOR adds that: “The magnitude and dynamics of the change in these characteristics (e.g. rate of mixing, surface water density, chemical composition, water temperature, rate of evaporation, mineral precipitation, biological activity, depth of stratification, etc.,) which are all interrelated, can only be determined following careful limnological modeling based on deep insight i...

Complaint > Power VI Project

Management Response: Management Response (English)

...unknown significant areas t o be avoided. L An overview of the proposed development activities, mitigative measures and residual impact of the rating for each parameter of the human environment is presented in Table 2. ' \ Environmental Impact Assessment of the Proposed Songo Songo December 19. Gas Development Project ...

Complaint > Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project

Eligibility: 19-Eligibility Report (English)

...unknown;11 these discoveries along hyacinth- free rocky shores indicated that it was unlikely that the hyacinth was playing any significant role in the survival of cichlid fish species. On the other hand, the hyacinth was implicated in increases in dangerous diseases such as bilharzia and malaria, and its negative economic effects were large; and (d) the proportion of the nutrients in their vicinity taken up by the hyacinth was unknown, but the fact that...

Complaint > Power Development Project

Filing: 87-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown] (hereinafter “EIA Executive Summary”). 6 EIA Executive Summary, at 2. Interview by Komala Ramachandra with Surendraswor Moktan, Chairperson of the Protest Committee, Member of the Tamang indigenous community, resident of Majhitar, Kamalamai Municipality, Sindhuli District, Ward No. 7 (June 4, 2013). Notes of interviews are on file with Accountability Counsel and available upon request. including ten in Sindhuli District.7 Project documents indicate that a 15-meter right of way (“RoW...

Complaint > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project, First Request

Other: 54-Socio-Economic Evaluation (English)

...unknowns regarding whether such a shift in perspective will succeed for those who have not, to date, succeeded on their own; any reinsertion program would need to have realistic expectations of success. The dependence streak runs deep, and permeates many a PVs' reinsertion project. Most projects were discussed in terms of the investments they would require (including tractors for farming), but rarely in terms of revenue streams. There may be ...

Complaint > Proposed Kosovo Power Project and Second Additional Financing Energy Sector Clean-up and Land Reclamation Project

Compliance Report: 103-Inspection Panel Investigation Report(English)

...unknown. The evacuees in temporary shelters told the Panel they wanted to resettle in the New Shkabaj resettlement site along with other members of their former community of Hade. 131. Panel Finding. The Panel finds the Bank was not involved in the 2004/05 emergency evacuation of a part of Hade Village, nor was it involved in the subsequent resettlement process, and thus is not responsible for the harm arising from it. The Panel understands the evacuation decision was taken by UNMIK and resettle...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Compliance Report: 34-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown from what depth the samples were taken. Allegedly the samples showed that the soils were generally of stiff cohesive clay with high silt content (85%) and with clay and sand contents of 10% and 5% respectively. 102 During the design phase, a consultant collected auger samples from one meter depth and less to calibrate the model. 103 Additional borehole samples were taken by another consultant from a 10 foot depth. 104 These samples s...

Complaint > Proposed Kosovo Power Project and Second Additional Financing Energy Sector Clean-up and Land Reclamation Project

Filing: 103-Request for Inspection

...unknown, future project liabilities with each incremental , quasi-emergency resettlement. 136 OP 4.12, Annex A, ii 20 including footnote 6. 137 OP 4. 12 Para. 33. 42 Profit and Loss ...

Complaint > Parana Biodiversity Project

Management Response: 41-Management Response (English)

...unknown origin, but that the area is in the process of regeneration. On April 3, 2006, the Federal Government established a 16,582 hectare Wildlife Refuge in the area. The PBP has supported discussion with farmers and civil society on the importance of the area’s biodiversity, increased fire protection and improved enforcement of the new protected area. 58. The findings and recommendations of the Technical Audit are intended to feed into the results of the Mid-Term Review. The Technical Au...

Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Management Response: Management Response (English)

...unknown and prior to Bank involvement. These are the only Mbya people known to have been residlent on the island(s) of the Paraná river. In 1987, the Bank received a request fiom the IEpiscopal Confcrence of Paraguay, on behalf of the Mbya families, to consider them u having been displaced by the Yacyretá Project because they had fled the island to problems with authorities when they learned of the construction of the dam. Foliowing meetings ...

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

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...Unknown Chancellery Tax 3 000.00 RVM General Tax $26 446.? H. VILLE City Council Tax $118.? ONATRA Berthing Tax ...

Complaint > Jute Sector Adjustment Credit Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...unknown potential impacts of took place. the project on them. 46. Even if specific damage caused by Preliminary Finding construction and river training could only be 49. Based on this initial review, it determined ex-post, the environmental appears that IDA omitted to identifi and assessment guidelines call for identification incorporate char people specifically during of impacts in the project area, in...

Complaint > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project, First Request

Management Action Plan: 54-Second Management Progress Report (English)

...unknown number of ex‐workers who were reportedly re‐employed by OCPT after collecting retirement benefits. These two undertakings are currently ongoing, with partial funding from the existing PSDCP budget and partial expected from the reallocation of PSDCP in June 2011, which will continue to finance the activities under this task. 37. Subsequently, to enable access to the national pension system (INSS) for all above ex‐ workers, it will be necessary t...

Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Filing: 80-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown territory. He is driven by passion, commitment and conviction. But he was stopped. By none other than the World Bank on which he is banking. Why? He asks? What wrong have I committed? He questions, "While the World Bank organizes conclaves to inspire the youth to take greater responsibilities, why is it not supporting a youngster to represent a project with which itself partnered? He sought an answer, "how do I reach the international community to benefit from their collecti...

Complaint > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project, First Request

Management Action Plan: 54-Second Management Response and Report on Progress (English)

...unknown to us, desig- nated for the economic and social reintegration of former BCA, NBK, and BCCE employees (Annex 32). August 9, 2007: Provocative and bothersome position taken by the Country Manager in Kinshasa, concerning the formal notice given to COPIREP by the trade group of former employees of the three banks, with respect to: (i) the intentional confusion he created by considering the amount of US $11,500,000 as already paid to constitute full and final payment o...

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

Filing: 83-Second Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown destinations rather than put themselves at risk in their designated new location, while others returned home but were forcefully removed by the police. Information to those affected has been lacking, adding to the uncertainty and fear. There has been no authoritative statement on how many villages and which ones are to be relocated during which phase of the process.11 VII. Conference After the World Bank’s failure to organize a serious meeting consisting of independent experts (see C...

Complaint > Tax Administration Reform Project

Filing: 64-Request for Inspection Annexes (English)

...unknown darkness (of the scenarios given in Para 4) and throwing oneself at the mercy of the Establishment Division. That it is also possible that pe.titioners opt for IRS and would finally find themselves in the PRS without opting for it (Para 4(b) of O:M.); m) Creating a new occupational group and seeking irrevocable options from • I . Customs and Excise Group and Income T~ Group to join the same W...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

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

...unknown. In addition to Navruz, there were several tragic deaths. Igor Yachkevskiy, a 55-year old resident of Tashkent city, died of a heart attack while picking cotton in Okkurgon district, Tashkent region on the 17th of September.9Umid, a third year student of the Bukhara Engineering Institute of High Technologies, in Bukhara region, died after he was hit by a tractor on his 8 Barno Anwar, “Шаҳрисабзликмарҳумтеримчинингоиласиадолаткутмоқда,” Ozodlik.org, 15 October 2012, available at http://...

Complaint > Transport Sector Support Project and its Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Response

...Unknown number of Webuye interchange through (looking at participants – varied. cracked houses, etc.) January 23 and 24, Meeting to discuss is- Task Team and Re- Park Villa Webuye In- 2019: sues of concern and pro- questers terchange posed way forward 41 Kenya ...

Complaint > Arun III Proposed Hydroelectric Project and Restructuring of IDA Credit

Compliance Report: Investigation Report (English)

...unknown. Land- owners tended to be grateful for whatever they received, as opposed to feeling they had true legal recourse to ensure fair treatment. This was particularly true in remote hill and mountainous areas where the local authorities were not operating in a democratic framework. The first Land Acquisition Act was passed in 1956, with subsequent revisions. When the legal framework was examined in the course of designing this project, Bank staff found it to be manifestly inadequate for meet...