Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Management Response: Summary of Management Actions(English)

...President Bank Group Senior Management Vice Presidents, Bank, IFC and MIGA Directors and Department Heads, Bank, IFC and MIGA This document has a restricted distribution and may be used by recipients only in the performance of their official duties. Its contents may not otherwise be disclosed without World Bank Group authorization. The Tables below summarize the Actions proposed by Management in its Report and Recommendations. Table A includes actions that address the Panel’s findings ...

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 > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project, First Request

Management Response: 54-Management Response (English)

...Vice President of DRC, 0306/RDC/VPR/CSC/EIC/PK/06, Letter to Managing Director of Gécamines, Issue of mass lay-off at Gécamines, named “Voluntary Departure Pro- gram”, in the framework of the restructuring of this public enterprise in 2003, June 2006 State Minister to the President, PR/MIN.ET/058/vk/2007, Letter to the Prime Minister, Issue of 10,655 Gécamines’ workers laid off in 2003, April 10, 2007 Gécamines, ADG/394/2007, Letter to the State Minister to the President, regarding his letter PR...

Complaint > Institutional Reform Development Policy Financing

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

...vice 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 with civil society and beneficiaries in Yemen informed the design of projects such as the Integrated Urban Development Project and the Second Port Cities Development Project. The World Bank office in Sana’a organized a consultation meeting on January 18, 2009, with ...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-First Management Progress Report

...Vice-President chairs every alternate meeting. Country specific portfolio reviews have also been undertaken, including one for Ghana, which was recently completed, and others planned for FY09. 30. Bank supervision missions. A two-week supervision mission in December 2008 was undertaken, and selected members of the core task team have undertaken five monthly field visits during the past six months. 31. Implementation strategy, periodic review and increase in supervision budget. The Afri...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Response: 89-Management Response and Addendum (English)

...Vice- President of the World Bank, Europe and Management also does not have a record of receiving a Central Asia Division letter addressed to the Regional Vice President, Mr. Shigeo Katsu, in September 2013 and notes that Mr. Katsu was • A written case study prepared by Ezgulik in Regional Vice President in 2003-2009. partnership with Bank In...

Complaint > Tax Administration Reform Project

Management Response: 64-Management Response Annexes (English)

...Vice President Income Tax Officers Association 4. Member FBR, Member Executive Committee, Income Tax Officers Association 5. Commissioner of Income Tax, Member Executive Committee, Income Tax Officers Association 6. Vice President Income Tax Officers Association 7. Additional Commissioner of Income Tax 8. Member Income Tax Officers Association 9. Commissioner of Income Tax, Member Executive Committee, Income Tax Officers Association 10. Additiona...

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

Management Response: 26-Management Response (English)

...Vice President, Country Management Unit Director, and Sector Management Unit Directors have engaged in dialogue with ministers and other high level officials from the Governments of Argentina and Paraguay. Finally, the Regional Vice Presidency and the Country Management Unit Director have also maintained close contacts with affected people, NGOs and other civil society groups including through three visits to the project sites by the Bank’s Regional Vice President, during which me etings were or...

Complaint > Mining Development and Environmental Control Assistance Project

Compliance Report: 20-Investigation Report (English)

...vice would be to make sure, at minimum, that all comments made at the meeting are incorporated in the negotiations package. Others should be incorporated to the extent possible.”106 On March 25, 1993, LATEN cleared the Project for negotiation. The cover memorandum dated March 29, 1993 seeking authorization to negotiate from the LAC Vice President on the pre-negotiations package informs him that the “recommendations and suggestions...

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 > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Eligibility: 40-Eligibility Report Final (English)

...Vice-President of the new concerns about fishing activities raised with the Panel during the Panel’s visit to Nigeria and the FoE-GH letter. The Panel added both items to the processing of the existing Request. Management provided the Panel with a supplemental response regarding the issues raised in the later letter from FoE- GH (“Supplemental Response”) 5 . Management also provided the Panel with “Clarifications Regarding Marine ...

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

Management Response: 18-Management Response (English)

...Vice President for LAC, Brazil CMU Director, and Bank NGO liaison staff, dialogued with the President of the Bahia Federation of Rural Workers (FETAG). At that time, the President stated, "The Federation is not against the Bank funding agrarian reform in Brazil, and local landless farmers have welcomed the program." He further stated that now that the movement had lost the battle to have the Cédula da Terra blocked (they were not aware that the Second Request was presente...

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 > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Compliance Report: 16-Investigation Report (English)

...VICE PRESIDENT, Memo to Director RMT “Compliance with Safeguard Policies” (3 June 1998). Attached to it was a separate memorandum from the Managing Directors to Operational Vice Presidents, headed “Operational Policy Reform: Compliance with Safeguard Policies.” 118 See EAPVP Regional Vice President, supra note 117. 72 176. One of these experts informed the Panel that from the time that ...

Complaint > Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Clean-Up Project, First Request

Management Action Plan: 47-Third Management Progress Report (English)

...Vice-President been a protracted one, the cases have thus object to a reasonable proposal of the Austrian Court of Appeals], far progressed within the foreseen to consolidate the Requesters' has personally attended two of the timeframe. All of the cases have moved claims. Further, the Bank will hearings to date in two missions to beyond initial procedural questions and the also confirm that Government Albania...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Compliance Report: 38-Investigation Report (English)

...vice president of Huachiew Chalermprakiat University; then joined the Thailand Environment Institute (TEI) as vice president. In 1998, Mr. Onchan was appointed president of TEI. He helped establish and was appointed president of the Mekong Environment and Resource Institute (MERI) in 2000. He has served as advisor to the Prime Minister and to the Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, as member of the National Environmental Board, chairman of the National EIA Committee, chairman of the...

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

Eligibility: 26-Eligibility Report (English)

...Vice President, Country Management Unit Director, and Sector Management Unit Directors have engaged in dialogue with ministers and other high level officials from the Governments of Argentina and Paraguay. Finally, the Regional Vice Presidency and the Country Management Unit Director have also maintained close contacts with affected people, NGOs and other civil society groups including through three visits to the project sites by the Bank’s Regional Vice President, during which meetings were org...

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 > Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Project

Registration: 95-Notice of Non-Registration(English)

...vices Contracting Dedicated Satisfactory levels of Main services include: 12/01/2014 Ongoing, on track. Consulting Services to services to ICs for the • Four capacity building events for IC members replace the NGO Service remainder of 2014 organized and undertaken, including payment Identification of firm: • Single sourced firm: Provider for six months and the beginning of ...

Complaint > Special Structural Adjustment Loan

Management Response: 17-Management Response (English)

...President’s Report or Memorandum of the President similarly submitted in connection with approval of an adjustment loan is explicitly not subject to public disclosure (compare BP 17.50, paras. 6 and 7 with Disclosure Memo footnote 2, which – based on Disclosure Policy para. 50 -- states that “the President’s Report for adjustment operations is … not made available to the public”). Disclosure Policy para. 52 also makes the crucial point that “[t]here is also a need to preserve the integrity of th...