Complaint > Kenya Energy Sector Recovery Project

Filing: 79-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate changes to a more drought-prone regime? Over the past few months, a private company has systematically destroyed the Chalbi wetland in preparation for their proposed development. Kara and Green Belt Movement objections have been disregarded by the developer and a site house haS been constructed and a bore-hole drilled despite, it is believed, that there is no such provision for a borehole within the Nema approved EIA. Residents' opinions have not been sought and Nema secretly appro...

Complaint > Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya

Filing: Letter of complaint - Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya - April 2018

...climate of fear around its operations, which affects parents, teachers, staff and citizens. BIA has in several instances used the courts to sue over defamation. However, these attempts to obtain gag orders have all failed as BIA has lost these cases so far. Because of these actions, the complainants believe that BIA is using the Kenyan courts to bully and silence critics and competitors. This situation affects not only the involved individuals and organizations, but also creates a climate of...

Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Filing: Additional Request for Inspection (English)

...changes in the project during implementation.” Rather than change the project to reduce the environmental and social impacts in light of repeated violations of loan agreements and project documents, the Banks changed the project to allow the borrower to delay implementation of these neglected components. 65. Finally, the Banks did not adequately exercise their remedies when the borrower failed to comply with project conditions. (OD 13.05, para 41). In particular, the Banks should hav...

Complaint > Lonmin-02/Marikana

Filing: Complaint regarding Lonmin project

...climate change and has also committed to reduce energy consumption by 10% in 2007 compared with 2003 baseline levels. Certain areas of the project do have the potential to impact ambient conditions (eg: dust from tailings dams and smelter emissions). Appropriate strategies to minimize these and other impacts have been taken, for example measures to minimize dust from tailings dams (see below) whilst SOX emissions fro...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...changes in the companies’ ownership and permitting a company to bid upon a concession even through one of the company’s owners owed money to the government; • Breaches of laws prohibiting collusion between bidders; • Violations of laws prohibiting the award of logging concessions on private land; • Negotiations that illegally changed the tax requirements outlined in bid documents after bids had been awarded. Had the contractual changes not been exposed by i...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, and Petroleum Environment Capacity Enhancement Project

Filing: 27-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate change. Furthermore, the potential impacts of possible oil accidents have not been analysed. Preparation of the emergency plan in the event of an oil leak was conducted without the slightest public consultation. • The environmental impact study has not undertaken an analysis of the cumulative and overall impacts of the project. For example, it has not taken sufficient account of the operations for exploiting oil in the Ebomé region (Kribi), and no study of the alterna...

Complaint > Northern Corridor Highway Improvement Program - Santa Barbara - Rurrenabaque and San Buenaventura

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...climate changes and increased deforestation. Year after year, this region has seen extreme phenomena occurring with a higher frequency -- torrential rains and increased river flows that are creating situations as the floods we are experimenting these days, posing serious life-threatening risks to the people who live in Rurrenabaque and any neighboring municipalities. This bridge project also poses risks to the mountain areas that are regarded as a ...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Filing: Request for Inspection (English)

...change with officials of the World Bank in regard to this loan. We had submitted a representation to Ms Isabel Guerrero, VP, South Asia, WB in March 2012 attaching therewith copies of earlier exchanges with the WB officials. We have received a reply to this representation from WB Officials in June 2012. However, the reply only re-states the positions taken in earlier exchanges hence we are not giving a point-wise rejoinder to this reply. These documents are attached for your kind perusal, please...

Complaint > Phase 1B of Lesotho Highlands Water Project, 1st Request

Filing: 12-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate that now exists. 1.4 The LHWP. By way of background to the LHWP itself, concerns have often been expressed about design flaws associated with the first (completed) dam (Katse, Phase 1A). This Claim is based on the argument that "both Phase 1A and the next dam to be built -- Mohale (along with a diversion weir and tunnel to the Katse Reservoir), known as "Phase 1B" -- cause harm to the claimants and others similarly situated. Indeed we believe that a $50 million World Bank loan for Phase ...

Complaint > EPS Emergency Power Sector Reconstruction Loan, EPS Power II and EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Filing: Complaint

...change substantially in the next few years”. First, although 'substantially' can be open to interpretation, we would argue that production was planned to change substantially from 2011 onwards, and that this was known at the time of the appraisal of the project. This is shown for example in the General Regulation Plan for the Area of Barosevac, Medosevac, Zeoke and Burovo (2008) (p.5), which shows that in 2011 production for the Kolubara basin was planned to be at 30 million tonnes while in 2020...

Complaint > EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Filing: Complaint

...changed much over the past 20 years, regardless of changes of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia since 2006. Apart from the strict centralization of decision- making, this institutional framework creates a large lack of responsibility of each entity. Since the decision is not bound to the implementation, each entity of the institutional framework may adopt any decision, and then transfers responsibility to the superior entity for the lack of implementation. Only the Government has no suc...

Complaint > Governance Promotion Adjustment Loan

Filing: 25-Request for Inspection (English)

...changed in the alienation of their timber resources. In 1990 the World Bank and other donors began to support the State in its attempts to re-assert control over the logging industry. While new legislation and a series of donor -funded activities brought some change, real change was slow in coming and sometimes difficult to see. Certainly, governance was absent in 1994, when a Minister for Forests unlawfully allowed a logging company to begin a road-line clearance of the claimants l...

Complaint > Protection of Basic Services Program Phase II Additional Financing and Promoting Basic Services Phase III Project

Filing: 82-Request for Inspection (English)

...changed in 2005. In the aftermath of the national election that year, State security forces reacted to protests with excessive force, killing 200 and arresting over 30,000 people.45 These State-perpetrated abuses led to a suspension of direct budget support by the World Bank and other members of the Development Assistance Group (DAG), a consortium of 26 donors to Ethiopia. 36. Noting the risks of continuing direct budget support in this political environment, ...

Complaint > Karot Hydro-03

Filing: COMPLAINT AGAINST IFC’S PROJECT NO. 36008 – KAROT HYDRO (PAKISTAN)

...change of emails can be found as ANNEX 6.1 and the Charter of Demands as ANNEX 6.2). This position paper by Awami Labour Union described blatant violations of labour rights’ as a result of Karot’s lack of recognition of Awami Labour Union as the CBA, anti-union practices such as threats of contract termination and subjecting union leaders to fabricated judicial proceedings made by Karot management, and prohibiting union leadership from entering the premises. It also highlighted basic finan...

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

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...changed. Typologies exercises conducted by the FATF have indicated increasing use of bureaux de change in laundering operations. Hence it is important that there should be effective counter-measures in this area. This Interpretative Note clarifies the application of FATF Recommendations concerning the financial sector in relation to bureaux de change and, where appropriate, sets out options for their implementation. Definition of Bureaux de Change For the purpose of this Note, bureaux de cha...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

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

...climate,any investment in the agricultural system merely sustains the state-order system and forced labor which underpins it. In addition, the massive and nationwide forced labor of government employees strains the delivery of many public services, including essential medical care and education. Just in Tashkent, approximately 11,000 nurses and doctors from hospitals and clinics were sent to the fields during the 2012 cotton harvest. As in previous years so in 2012, both high school and uni...

Complaint > Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance

Filing: 100-Request for Inspection (French)

...Climate Change Resilience? (La Sécheresse Actuelle en Haïti: une Opportunité pour Construire la Résilience au Changement Climatique?) (22 avril 2014), Oxfam America, disponible à http://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2014/04/haiti-drought-opportunity-build-climate-change- resilience/. 107 Voir, par exemple, Evens Sanon et Trenton Daniel, Official: Haiti Drought Causes ‘Extreme’ Emergency Officiel: la Sécheresse en Haït Provoque une 'Extreme' Urgence, Associated Press (18 mars 2014), disp...

Complaint > MHP Corporate Support Loan, MHP Biogas

Filing: Complaint (English)

...climate change, human rights and gender.” In line with the EC’s approach and the Court’s rulings regarding the implementation of the EIA Directive, Performance Requirement 1 #9 goes on to instruct that environmental and social assessment should identify associated facilities that are essential to the viability of the project, as well as cumulative impacts “of the project in combination with impacts from other relevant past, present and reasonably foreseeable developments as well as unp...

Complaint > Nedbank Tier II-01/Kintinian

Filing: Letter of complaint to CAO with annexes - Nedbank-01 - April 2017

...change Commi ssion (Annex 1). If the IFC policy were properly followed, we would expect to find in that agreement a requirement on AngloGold Ashanti to apply the Performance Standards to its mining operations in Guinea, since the high level of risks of industrial mining operations to people and the environment are well known. There is no such term in the agreement, save an undertaking by AngloGold Ashanti that it is in compliance with all applicable environmental laws and permits as ...

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

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 13

...change le nom du pays, qui redevient la République démocratique du Congo après s’être appelé, depuis 1971, République du Zaïre. Un décret-loi constitutionnel relatif à l’exercice du pouvoir est promulgué. Bien qu’il ne contenait pas de titre spécifique consacré aux droits fondamentaux, son article 2 dispose néanmoins que l’exercice des droits et libertés individuels et collectifs est garanti, sous réserve du respect de la loi, de l’ordre public et des bonnes mœurs. 7. Mais le 2 août 1998 une...