Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Action Plan: 89-Second Management Progress Report(English)

...changes in the cotton sector and beyond. 9 Annex 1: Matrix of Actions related to the Management Response Action Update as of June 14, 2016 Rural Enterprise Support Project II Revision of the Project Implementation Completed. The Project Implementation Plans of the RESP II and Plan to include provisions on the Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change Miti...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Management Action Plan: Investigation Plan (English)

...changes in micro climate and rainfall patterns o Likely social, cultural and economic impacts on communities outside immediate area of influence – in the Alaknanda river basin and beyond o Any contribution of the Project to increased risk of landslides o Any contribution of the Project to increased vulnerability of communities in the Alaknanda river basin in the event of earthquakes  Did the Bank adequately assess whether mitigation measur...

Complaint > Institutional Reform Development Policy Financing

Management Response: 57-Management Response Annexes 2 to 8

...Climate Assessment: Priorities and Recommendationsfor Accelerating Private-Led Growth (May 12,2006) World Bank. Development Policy Review (March 2006) World Bank Group, Doing Business 2007 (Washington: World Bank Group, 2006) World Bank. Yemen Urban Land Policy and Administration Policy Note (2006) United States Department of Commerce U S . Department o f State, Investment Climate Statement - - Yemen (Washington, DC: 2006) Wor...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89 - Final Eligibility Report (English)

...change, cancellation of the loan security are resolved in accordance with applicable law. 35 10. Miscellaneous 10.1. Changing the terms of the Agreement or its cancellation shall be effected by a supplementary agreement. Any changes or additions made to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall come into force after the actual signing by the Parties and attaching seal. All changes, additions and annexes are considered an integr...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Compliance Report: Investigation Report (English)

...climate change. The Panel acknowledges that the small size of the reservoir, the slow water retention period, and the lack of significant biomass to be submerged suggest that any potential release of methane will be negligible and thus will not result in any significant addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. The inverse is more important and has been emphasized by Management, i.e., the positive contributions of hydropower to fight climate change as it provides electricity in a more clim...

Complaint > Institutional Reform Development Policy Financing

Eligibility: 57-Final Eligibility Report (English)

...changes between CSOs and Government. 33. As for the Bank’s program in Yemen and the way forward, Management stated that the Country Office arranged frequent meetings with a cross-section of CSOs. On average, two to three events were held each month, on topics as diverse as the new Social Welfare Fund operation, the 6 Integrated Urban Development project, the Qat Demand Reduction Agenda, and Climate Change. Additionally, Seni...

Complaint > Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance

Filing: 100-Request for Inspection

...Climate Change Resilience: The Case of Haiti, Oxfam America (March 2014), available at http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/rr-climate-change-resilience-haiti- 260314-en_2.pdf. 49 Id. 50 Poverty and Inclusion in Haiti: Social gains at a timid pace, supra note 40. 51 See, e.g., Mining Water Use, USGS available at http://water.usgs.gov/edu/wumi html and Mining and Water Pollution, Safe Drinking Water Foundation, available at http://www.safewater.org/PDFS/resourc...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 2nd Request

Eligibility: 18-Eligibility Report (English)

...change the conclusions reached in the First Management Response. Management continues to believe that the claims are not substantiated. 31 2.2 The claims registered by the Panel include: 1. The terms of the loans for land purchases have not been improved; 2. There is a lack of adequate lines of credit to support project beneficiaries; 3. The project pays inflated prices for la...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Action Plan: 44-Sixth Management Progress Report-21 Feb 2017

...Climate Change and disclose the Lake Victoria hydrological (water releases) Hydrology Risks; information and make it available to the East African Potential Impacts on Lake Community (EAC). Victoria; Alternative -4- Issues Actions (Initial Commitment) Status Project Configurations (OP4.01) IV. PROGRESS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OUTST...

Complaint > Bangladesh Modern Food Storage Facilities Project

Registration: 116-Notice of Non-Registration-13Mar2017

...Climate Change Resilience Fund of US$ 25 million and a US$5 million beneficiary contribution. The Project has been categorized as environmental Category "B", and has triggered OP/BP 4.01 Environmental Assessment and OP/BP 4.12 Involuntary Resettlement. The Request 8. The Request' is related to Component A of the Project, and was submitted by 26 farmers from the Project area who expect to be beneficiaries. The farmers have authorized a local social entrepreneur to represent them in th...

Complaint > Mongolia Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Investment Support - Additional Financing

Management Response: 102 - Management Response (English)

...climate change bility, are part of the ToR. and desiccation of Mongo- Section B 4.3. – Climate Change Assessment – of the Shuren Fea- lian landscape will be ex- sibility Study states: “The Consultant shall, based on global and acerbated by dam projects. regional studies, and climate change projections, estimate the Flow volumes are decreas- ...

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

Registration: Notice of Non-Registration

...climate change (2050) on the water resources feeding into the Bisri Dam, and it did not evaluate alternatives to limit water shortage: The variation of water availability (Precipitation, infiltration, surface runoff, and Evapotranspiration) with climate change is not tackled. The assumption that surface runoff increases with climate change is not supported with appropriate references. D. Following concerns about the water quantities in the Greater Beirut Water Supply Pr...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Action Plan: 89-Management Progress Report

...change, cancellation of the loan security are resolved in accordance with applicable law. 35 10. Miscellaneous 10.1. Changing the terms of the Agreement or its cancellation shall be effected by a supplementary agreement. Any changes or additions made to this Agreement shall be in writing and shall come into force after the actual signing by the Parties and attaching seal. All changes, additions and annexes are considered an integr...

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

Filing: Request for Inspection

...climate change (2050) on the water resources feeding into the Bisri Dam, and it did not evaluate alternatives to limit water shortage: The variation of water availability (Precipitation, infiltration, surface runoff, and Evapotranspiration) with climate change is not tackled. The assumption that surface runoff increases with climate change is not supported with appropriate references. D. Following concerns about the water quantities in the Greater Beirut Water Supply Pr...

Complaint > Mining Development and Environmental Control Assistance Project

Filing: 20-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate. The protected areas affected include the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve, one of the most biodiverse protected areas in the world. These areas protect the last remnants of Ecuador's Western Forest and dozens of species in danger of extinction. They are recognized throughout the world as being among the forests that contain the greatest biodiversity and are most threatened by deforestation, and are one of ecologist Norman Meyers' "biodiversity hotspots." III. As we indicate in th...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 1st Request

Eligibility: 14-Eligibility Report (English)

...Changes in Costs With Changes in Inflation and Farm Income Simulation of a R$3,500 Loan Conditions: (i) 10-year repayment period, with a three-year grace period; (ii) annual installments of R$500, adjusted for the TJLP (government long-term interest rate) Year Repayment Adjustment Change in Projected Income/debt amount* for projecte...

Complaint > Institutional Reform Development Policy Financing

Management Response: 57-Responses to Questions from the Requesters and the Inspection Panel

...Climate Change, Anti-Corruption and Strengthening of the Social Welfare Fund) and offering help to do so. In this regard, two missions visited Yemen (November 3-5, 2009, and December 12-15, 2009) to reiterate these messages and to concretely support the Bank's advice for Government-led consultations on operations that the Bank supports. In May 2010, the Region took stock of the impact of this advice in an assessment note that was shared with Government in June 2010. Consultations wit...

Complaint > Quilleco Hydropower Project

Registration: 67-Notice of Registration (English)

...change for Certified Emission Reductions (“CERs”) with the aim of mitigating global climate change through carbon emission reductions, under the expectation that the Project will result in reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that are additional to any that would occur in the absence of the Project. The ERPA for the Quilleco Hydropower Project, which has already commenced operations, was entered into between Hidroelectrica Guardia Vieja S.A. (“HGV”), a subsidiary of Colbun SA, and the ...

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

Compliance Report: 37-Investigation Report (English)

...climate change.71 Tropical deforestation, in particular, has a strong effect on climate change because tropical trees store about 50 percent more carbon per hectare than trees elsewhere. 72 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that the largest of the anthropogenic land cover changes involves deforestation, and that during the past two decades, “the CO2 flux caused by land use changes has been dominated by tropica...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 1st Request

Management Response: 14-Management Response (English)

...changes to help ensure better compliance with Bank policies and procedures. The objective is to stop the operation and any contemplated expansion, because the Requestors do not believe that the Government should be pursuing a voluntary, market-based approach to achieve redistribution of land assets in Brazil. “Expropriation means punishing (in accordance with current legislation) the owners of large tracts of land who keep them in unproductive state and/or fail to fulfill the soci...