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

Eligibility: 102-Second Report and Recommendation(English)

...change and redistribute the annual run-off of the Selenge and its tributaries. In their view, these changes would have damaging effects on the already vulnerable and unique ecosystem of Lake Baikal, 8 Management Response: 29, 30. 9 Management Response: 30. 8 as the river’s annual run off is one of the main factors that guarantee its ecological integrity. A redistribution of the run off could have highly detrimental effects, including epidemic d...

Complaint > AD Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh

Eligibility: English

...changes to the ‘draft’ report will not be material to the Board’s decision. In the interests of effective due process, the CAO believes that it would have been more forthright to have presented a final report to the Board and public. This provides the clearest signal that IFC believes that all material concerns have been met. The CAO believes that the transparency of process of developing the scope and content of the ESIA could be improved, particularly with regard to IFC demon...

Complaint > Shuakhevi HPP

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report for PSI (Georgian)

...changes in the micro-climate of the village, reduction of water in the river bed to only 10%. Company later completely ignored the emerged problems and refuses to deliver its commitment. Plenty of meetings have been held on this topic with government officials, Company representatives and Ministry of Energy of Georgia. They were all in vain. No response followed on the letter sent to the managements of the Banks in August. Construction of the project has been completed and it left no drinking wa...

Complaint > EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...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 > Yanacocha-02/Cajamarca

Eligibility: Report of the Independent Evaluation of the Mesa de dialogo y consenso CAO-Cajamarca, May 2005

...change this perception and achieve a wider level participation, the Mesa needs to change certain aspects of the Mesa process. These changes include: • Offering key leaders of other institutions leadership positions within the Mesa. This could be done by conducting outreach and inviting them to help convene the Assemblies. Additional training in negotiation skills and consensus building for new representatives of the reconfigured Assembly; • Facilitating t...

Complaint > South-West Corridor Road Project

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report for CR (English)

...change have been in the direction opposite to the direction given in the complaint and are not related to road narrowing but different design issues of the junction. The changes have been made and are proposed to be made to make the passage under the bridge towards Russia safer. These changes primarily concern shortening the road barriers at the right side and in the middle. For the direction towards Aktobe mentioned in the Complaint, the proposed change of the central barrier will make the narr...

Complaint > South-West Corridor Road Project

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report for PSI (English)

...change have been in the direction opposite to the direction given in the complaint and are not related to road narrowing but different design issues of the junction. The changes have been made and are proposed to be made to make the passage under the bridge towards Russia safer. These changes primarily concern shortening the road barriers at the right side and in the middle. For the direction towards Aktobe mentioned in the Complaint, the proposed change of the central barrier will make the narr...

Complaint > Tbilisi Railway Bypass 2

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...changes in the area of compensation and mitigation should the final detailed design change in any way from the current plan. (v) Develop contingency agreements as required. For example, spell out in writing what will be done in case of accidents, interruption of service, changes in standards, emergence of new scientific information about risks or impacts, and so forth. (vi) Discuss approaches for improving communication, engagement and information ...

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

Eligibility: 37- Management Report and Recommendations (English)

...changes to the legal structure of forestry in the Congo, the new developments concerning the zonation and potentially the impacts that they will have on the rights, land rights regime in Congo, will affect potentially tens of millions of people. As yet almost none of those people are aware of the major changes that may well be coming their way. And so we fear that this is potentially creating a dangerous situation that may fuel conflict in coming years, as indeed similar kinds of changes have fu...

Complaint > DIF Lydian (Amulsar Gold Mine) 2

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...changes in the micro-climate to support populations of P. porphyrantha adjacent to the mine. The brown bear Ursus arctos is a protected species in Armenia and is included in the national Red Data Book with a status of Vulnerable (Margarian 1987). Ecological surveys carried out as part of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for Amulsar has confirmed that a breeding population is present. In spring 2014 two d...

Complaint > Second Urban Environment Sanitation Project

Eligibility: 49-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...change on aid disbursement from project- specific aid to direct budgetary support to the government. 22. Preparation of 2003 Environmental and Social Assessment (ESA). In preparing for the appraisal of UESP II in mid-2003, the Project team had the advantage of the relatively recent EIA described above. This EIA, on the basis of the 1999-2000 review of current conditions at the five alternative sites, had confirmed that Kwabenya remained the superior site among the five with respect to the o...

Complaint > Second Norte Grande Water Infrastructure Project

Eligibility: 73-Eligibility Report (English)

...changes Flood risk increases or -13 -11 0 0 0 11 changes 2. WATER Changes in surface and -24 -12 -19 0 0 0 underground water flow Changes in quality of surface 0 0 0 0 0 0 water Changes in quality of 0 0 0 0 0 0 underground water Changes in runoff or -11 -9 0 ...

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

Eligibility: 47-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...changes made during implementation that might require project restructuring. This review has not identified any project with issues of the gravity of those found in this Project. Apart from this Project, fourteen cases of inconsistencies in documentation have been identified and will be corrected. Thirty-four cases of changes made during implementation have been identified; some have already resulted in project restructuring and the others are being vetted to determine if project restructuring i...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Eligibility: 16-Eligibility Report (English)

...change over time. Changes in the implementation plan now guarantee an improved, more confidential, and more reliable consultation and decision-making input process. The second question raised by the Request was in regard to whether any meaningful consultations are possible in the political context of China. As illustrated above in the context of this Project, in Management’s judgement, consultations with affected people can be effectively carried out in China as envisaged in, and for the purpose...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...climate in which complaints were not welcome. 31. Management stated that since the December 2014 letter to the Panel, six consultations took place with the community with the goal of addressing the compensation issues as well as the grave social issues raised in the complaint. In Management’s view, there has been a lack of information sharing, which manifested itself mainly when it came to community members understanding how entitlements are determined and compensation amounts are calculat...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Eligibility: 78-Eligibility Report (English)

...Climate Change (SFDCC). 16 The Project is categorized as Category "A" and is proposed to be implemented by the Kosovo Ministry of Economic Development. 14. According to available project documents, the Lignite Power Technical Assistance Project (LPTAP) supported the preparation of the Project by financing "several key activities." Such activities included the preparation of a Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment (SESA) for a proposed 2000 MW power p...

Complaint > Greater Beirut Water Supply Project

Eligibility: 71-Eligibility Report and Chairperson Statement (English)

...climate change projections for Lebanon point towards less annual rainfall and higher rates of evaporation. G. Conclusions 65. The Panel is satisfied that the Request meets all technical eligibility criteria. 66. It is the judgment of the Panel that, based on the observations above, the Request raises serious concerns about potential harm and serious non-compliance raised in the Request. The Panel also notes that the Request and Management’s Response contain different views on...

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

Eligibility: 26-Eligibility Report (English)

...changes proactive with information and Relevant Policy: OD 4.01 or deterioration allowing public scrutiny of its • No significant changes in chemical and operation and related impacts. physical parameters in reservoir • Continue to closely monitor EBY-IDB • In fact, filling the reservoir by stages has bidding process for...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89-Eligibility Report and Recommendation (English)

...climate, any investment in the agricultural sector merely sustains the actual system and the forced and child labor policy underpinning it. 16. Impacts on the provision of public services (Education and Health). The Requesters claim that, one of the direct harms from the perpetuation of the system of forced and child labor is the strain on public services (including essential medical care and education). They claim that systemic usage of forced labor hi...

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

Eligibility: 12-Eligibility Report (English)

...changes in water allocation, repair of leaky infrastructure, a daily lifeline amount of water … and other approaches.” The Management Response addresses compliance with this policy only in terms of Lesotho, not South Africa. However, with respect to meeting the needs of poor water consumers in South Africa, it states that: “any postponement of the Phase 1B Project would carry net economic and financial costs to South Africa and hence would more likely harm than help poor water consumers. Signifi...