Complaint > Ficohsa-01/ CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Report: Spanish

...Financial Intermediaries, p.38. 64 IFC, ESRP (versión 4), agosto de 2009, párrafo 7.2.19. 65 Ibid. 66 IFC, ESRP 7 (versión 4), párrafo 2.19 67 CAO (2012) Audit of a Sample of IFC Investments in Third Party Financial Intermediaries, p.38f. 68 IFC, ESRP (versión 4), agosto de 2009, párrafo 7.2.18. 31 Informe de investigación de la CAO C-I-R9-Y13-F190 IFC no cumplió los req...

Complaint > Interagua-01/Guayaquil

Filing: English Part 2

...financial aspect, the Masterplan omits explaining how they plan to recover the investment in works of infrastructure. The plans estimate current costs of all the works to be constructed and the document includes an interest rate of 9%, designed to show the effects of inflation on 23 investment values. This rate is not realistic. It gives the impression that Interagua has planned for more substantial investments than they will really accomplish. We are...

Complaint > PT Weda Bay Nickel-01/Weda Bay

Eligibility: Ombudsman Assessment Report: Complaint Regarding the MIGA PT Weda Bay Nickel Project (#8113), Halmahera Island, North Maluku, Indonesia, June 2011

...financial and operational success of the WBN project  Maximizing development outcomes and benefits for Indonesia and the local community  Ensuring project compliance with MIGA standards and policies 4.2 Summary of Issues Based on the original complaint and further stakeholder discussions undertaken as part of the CAO Assessment, the primary topics and issues that would need to be addressed to resolve the complaint are summarized below5: 1. WBN social and environmental as...

Complaint > Chad-Cameroon Pipeline-03/Doba

Filing: Complaint from Local Inhabitants and Communities in the Chad Project Area, October 10, 2011

...financial involvement, the political and moral seal of approval of the World Bank Group was more than critical for the development of Doba crude and the outlook for the development of other oil basins in which it became involved during the life of the project (Section 4.10, Loan Agreement of March 29, 2001). According to the project appraisal document for the capacity-building project, the value-added of the World Bank Group’s support consisted of the physical execution of the Doba petroleum pro...

Complaint > Vizhinjam-01/Kerala

Compliance Report: CAO Compliance Investigation Report, Vizhinjam 01, 02 & 03 - January 23, 2018

...financial intermediary, would be of relevance in the context of CAO’s compliance mandate.17 In the course of this compliance investigation, CAO requested from IFC information in relation to possible IFC exposure to the port construction through investments in banks and funds. IFC did not provide requested information in relation to these issues. As a result, CAO does not further explore this issue as part of the compliance investigation. CAO’s investigation considers the port project as it was c...

Complaint > Eco Oro-01/Bucaramanga

Filing: Complaint to the CAO, June 13, 2012

COMPLAINT PRESENTED TO THE OFFICE OF THE COMPLIANCE ADVISOR / OMBUDSMAN (CAO) Re: International Financial Corporation Project No. 27961 in Colombia Presented by: The representatives of the Comité por la Defensa del Agua y el Paramo de Santurbán. The Committee is located in the city of Bucaramanga, Department of Santander, Colombia (see map in Annex 20), is made up of 40 civil society organizations that in turn represent about seventy-five thousand (75,000) persons, and can be contacted at the fo...

Complaint > Eco Oro-01/Bucaramanga

Compliance Report: English

...financial intermediary projects with minimal or no adverse risks.74 Discussion IFC’s investment in the Angostura project is similar to many other IFC early equity investments in junior mining companies. As discussed above in section 3.1, IFC’s early equity approach evaluates the opportunity to provide equity financing once a potentially commercial discovery has been made, to give support to companies to build their capacity to prepare for mine construction.75 Before investing in the project, IFC...

Complaint > PT Weda Bay Nickel-01/Weda Bay

Eligibility: Laporan Penilaian Ombudsman: Pengaduan mengenai Proyek MIGA PT. Weda Bay Nickel(#8113) Pulau Halmahera, Maluku Utara, Indonesia, Juni 2011

...financially feasible alternatives to the source of impacts” and documentation of the selection rationale; that the assessment will identify vulnerable groups; that “the client will establish and manage a program of mitigation and performance improvement measures and actions that address the identified social and environmental risks and impacts;” that community engagement will be “free of external manipulation, interference, or coercion, and intimidation, and conducted on the basis of timely, rel...