Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, Management of the Petroleum Economy Project, and Petroleum Sector Management Capacity Building Project

Filing: 22-Request for Inspection (English)

...President of the World Bank himself and various Bank departments to draw their special attention to the problems described above (see examples of related correspondence and documentation). Furthermore, Deputy Ngarlejy YORONGAR, our constitutionally elected representative, took part in the following activities in 1999: Ø Seminars organized by the World Bank in Paris, chaired by Mr. Jean-Louis Sarbib, Vice President of the World Bank for Africa, and by Mr. Patrice Dufour, the Represe...

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

Filing: 26-Request for Inspection (English)

...Vice President of the World Bank, and more, the problem, however obvious, was only recently acknowledged (in 1999) by the financing banks and EBY as being a consequence of the Yacyreta reservoir. Accordingly, EBY drew up the “Stream Flooding Program,” and once again, it did so unilaterally, without effective participation from the affected parties, and with the serious risk that many of the affected families would not be covered by the program, since even after multiple requests for a list of fa...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Filing: 60-Request for Inspection (English)

...Vice President for East Asia and Pacific James Adams visited Cambodia. COHRE was informed that he raised the Boeung Kak issue with senior government officials during his visit. 15. .COHRE welcomes the efforts made by the World Bank management since February 2009 to address the serious problems with the implementation of LMAP, and specifically the harms suffered by Boeung Kak residents. However, the harm caused by seven years of inadequate supervision of the project has in no way been mitigat...

Complaint > Tata Ultra Mega-01/Mundra and Anjar

Filing: Complaint from Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS – Association for the Struggle for Fishworkers Rights) regarding Tata Ultra Mega, June 11, 2011

...Vice President Meg Taylor Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman International Finance Corporation 2121 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC 20433 USA Fax: +1 202 522‐7400 Email: cao‐compliance@ifc.org Dear VP Taylor, We, members of the Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS – Association for the Struggle for Fishworkers’ Rights), representative organization of the affected people, submit our complaint against the Tata Ultra Mega ‐ Coastal Gujarat Power Limited investment, with funding from the Internati...

Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Fiancing - Second Request

Filing: Request for Inspection

...Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Ferid Belhaj, claimed that Lebanon can export water to Jordan (minute 33). Similar claims were made by Minister Gebran Bassil and Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri 26, 27. These recent statements contradict the National Water Sector Strategy, endorsed by the aforementioned local and international policy makers themselves, that claims Lebanon suffers from water scarcity. C. Durin...

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

Filing: Complaint

...Vice Governor, Peter Rosemblum Mr Guillermo Angel Guastavino and stakeholders and victims of two proposed IFC projects New York University to be undertaken near Fray Bentos, Uruguay: the Orion project undertaken by Botnia (IFC Dinah L. Shelton project number 23817), (“the Botnia project”) and the Celulosas de M’Bopicua project Georgetown University undertaken by ENCE (IFC project number 23681) (“the ENCE project”). Michael Shifter Vice President for Policy ...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Filing: 34-Request for Inspection (English)

...President James W. Wolfhenson and Vice President for South Asia Praful C. Patel. The event was widely published in national English and Urdu newspapers and communicated to World Bank officials, but there was no response. (Annex-12) 72. On April 20, 2004 Mustafa Talpur and Khadim Hussain of ActionAid Islamabad had a meeting with Mr. Roche and Suhail Sober Khan of Asian Development Bank, in which the issues related to NDP, was discussed in detail. Mr. Roche admired the role of NG...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-01/Khanbogd

Filing: Letter of complaint (redacted), October 12, 2012

...Vice-President, Compliance Advisor Ombudsman International Finance Corporation 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20433 USA Fax: (+1) (202) 522-7400 e-mail: cao-compliance@ifc.org Dear Ms. Taylor, We, the undersigned residents of Javhlant and Gavliut baghs1 of Khanbogd soum2, South Gobi aimag3 of Mongolia, organized into the Gobi Soil NGO, hereby submit this complaint to the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (“CAO”) concerning the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold-silver mining project (“Oyu Tolgoi Proj...

Complaint > Lafarge Surma Cement -01

Filing: Lafarge Complaint January 2014

Vice President Meg Taylor Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman International Finance Corporation 2121 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC 20433 USA Fax: +1 202 522-7400 Email: cao-compliance@ifc.org Dear VP Taylor, 6th January 2014 Indigenous Peoples’ Land mortgaging, impoverishment, social chaos and ecological destruction in IFC support for Lafarge Surma Cement mining in Khasi Territory of Meghalaya. Dear Madam/Sir,...

Complaint > Agroinvestbank Equity Investment

Filing: Complaint

...President of the EBRD 1 EBRD Social and Environmental Policy, Appendix 2 Page 13 of 14 This firm is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (Registered No: 76828) cc. EBRD Austrian Executive Director cc. Chair of the EBRD Audit Committee cc. Vice Chair of the EBRD Audit Committee cc. EBRD Audit Committee cc. EBRD Audit Committee cc. EBRD Audit Committee cc. EBRD Audit ...

Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion-01/Gatun

Filing: Complaint, May 12, 2011

...vice and reliability, and be more efficient, easier to maintain, and less complicated to operate. Considering what has be found by looking “under the rug”, PCE project-related statements recently published in the WikiLeaks – attributed to Panama's current President and Vice-President, who questioned it while qualifying it as a “disaster” – might more appropriately be called the “understatements of the new millennium”. It is alarming to witness, what I – as an expert in the field of engineering –...

Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...vice and reliability, and be more efficient, easier to maintain, and less complicated to operate. Considering what has be found by looking “under the rug”, PCE project-related statements recently published in the WikiLeaks – attributed to Panama's current President and Vice-President, who questioned it while qualifying it as a “disaster” – might more appropriately be called the “understatements of the new millennium”. It is alarming to witness, what I – as an expert in the field of engineering –...

Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Filing: 80-Request for Inspection (English)

...President, VEDA Climate Change Solutions Ltd; 2-35-15/2; Perraju Pet, Kakinada-533003; India; Telefax: 00 91 8842372430; 00 1 7408038030822 (Mobile) email: vccsl@vccslindia.org; List of attachments: DO 1. Open letter dated 19 April, 2012 addressed to the President, The World Bank Group 2. Email dt.28 December, 2011 addressed to Ms. Rachel Kyte, Vice President, Sustainable Development Network, The World Bank 3. Powerpoint presentation highlighting the concerns sent to Ms.Rachel Kyte, Vi...

Complaint > Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC)-01

Filing: Letter of complaint

...Vice President and CAO Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman International Finance Corporation 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20433 USA E-mail: CAO@worldbankgroup.org October 11, 2017 Dear Vice President Gratacós Re: Complaint concerning IFC investments in and financing to RCBC 1. The Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (“PMCJ”) is submitting this complaint to the Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman regarding IFC’s investment in Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (“...

Complaint > VEIL II-01/ Ratanakiri Province

Filing: Complaint to CAO VEIL II - Feb 2014

...Vice President Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman International Finance Corporation 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20433 USA Tel: + 1 202-458-1973 Fax: +1 202-522-7400 e-mail: cao-compliance@ifc.org February 10, 2014 Dear Vice President Taylor Re: Complaint concerning IFC investment in Dragon Capital Group and VEIL (Project no. 10740 and 20926) 1. Inclusive Development International (IDI), Equitable Cambodia (EC), Cambodian Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA), Indigenous R...

Complaint > Rondonia Natural Resources Management Project

Filing: Request for Inspection

...President of Brazil and t h e President of INCRA, c@es to t h e Wx&BaXL These documents, which can be found in ANNEX 05, include: a) letter t o the President of B r a z i l on 5/28/92, b) letter t o the President of IL'EicRA on 8/14/92, c) letter to the President of . nüCRA on 9/8/92, and d ) letter t o the President of IHCRA on 4/15/93 9- ûn k c h 9, 1993, t h e n o n - g o v e m a t a l organization ECOPORS (Jiçao ikológica Vale do Guaporé ...

Complaint > Eco Oro-01/Bucaramanga

Filing: Complaint to the CAO, June 13, 2012

...Vice-president Compliance Advisor / Ombudsman (CAO) 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20422 USA Receive our cordial greeting. We address you respectfully as Colombian citizens and representatives of the Comité por la Defensa del Agua y el Paramo de Santurbán, and as those affected by the project of the International Finance Corporation (hereinafter IFC), Project Number 27961, to be implemented in Colombia by the firm Greystar Resources Ltd., now Eco Oro Minerals Corp. (hereinafter “the ...

Complaint > Tax Administration Reform Project

Filing: 64-Request for Inspection Annexes (English)

...VICE INVITATION FOR OPTIONS As part of the Tax Administration Reforms a new occupational group, the Inland Revenue Service, has been created by the Government of Pakistan. This service group would be responsible for carrying out the functions relating to Income Tax, Sales Tax and Federal Excise. Each officer of the existing Customs and Excise Group and the Income Tax Group is called upon to exercise option for inclusion into the new Inland Revenue Service. In case no ...

Complaint > Special Structural Adjustment Loan

Filing: 17-Request for Inspection (English)

Volume I of II BOARD OF DIRECTORS Laura Jordán de Conte REQUEST. ANNEX A Chair CELS María Angélica Sosa de CENTER FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES Mignone Vice Chair Rodríguez Peña 286 – 1st floor ; (1020) Buenos Aires - Argentine Republic Patricia Valdez Tel: (54-1-1) 4371-9968/3790 – Fax: (54-...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...vice – an active participant in LFI – even promoted logging in Liberia by claiming the sector could produce revenues similar to those generated during periods of unsustainable logging while Taylor was in power.47 LFI planning documents and meeting minutes demonstrate, however, that the Bank and the US closely collaborated during the LFI reform process,48 and at no point is it known that the Bank project management team corrected the Forest Service’s erroneous arguments about revenues. The Liberi...