Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation(English)

...cash compensation, but the cash compensation would not be paid for a year or two and the assessment upon which the level of compensationwas based undervalued their homes. 28. The Banks have failed in their duty to ensute that persons resettled by the project, including the claimants, improve or at least maintain their standards of living. in fact, resettled persons have suffered financial losses and the destruction of their way of life. They have not participated in the development benefits...

Complaint > Santa Fe Road Infrastructure Project and Provincial Road Infrastructure Project, 3rd Request

Compliance Report: 51-Investigation Report (English)

...compensation at full replacement cost for losses of assets and development assistance in addition to compensation – e.g. credit facilities, trainings etc. – “where necessary to achieve the objectives of the policy.” When livelihood is land-based, OP 4.12 states that preference should be given to land-based resettlement strategies, but considers payment of cash compensation appropriate when, for example, only a fraction of land is taken and the residual land ensures ...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Response

...compensation continued to be slow. The existing grievance redress mechanism appeared to be working on issues of compensation complaint registration but the communication feedback loop from UNRA/compensation service provider on the resolution of claims was not working well. The grievance redress mechanism had also not been used to address other social issues apart from compensation; some communities did 28 Previous engagements indicated the time, place and purpose of the community meetings but...

Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...cash compensations to the owners, the ESIA estimated the aging pine trees at 330 USD, while the price of a 75-year-old pine tree in the market is between 4000 and 9000 USD, not to mention the costs of the associated ecosystem resources and the annual fruit yield. This is one example of many that show the unacceptable undervaluation of the agricultural resources, aiming to relieve the stakeholders from accountability. IV. Insufficient Study of Alternatives The United Nations World Water Deve...

Complaint > Proposed Kosovo Power Project and Second Additional Financing Energy Sector Clean-up and Land Reclamation Project

Management Response: 103-Management Report and Recommendation

...compensation for the assets of adversely affected people, including for the illegal structures that they constructed after 2004 in the Zone. As noted above, the draft ESIA for the proposed KPP identifies key environmental and social risks and impacts and recommends broad mitigation options, such as improving planning and management of resettlement in the Zone, which are based on good 27 The remaining 60 have opted for cash compensation instead. 28 http://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-...

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

Compliance Report: 37-Investigation Report (English)

...cash in the southern and eastern parts of the Ituri forest. The bushmeat hunted by the Mbuti were bartered with the traders for starchy food, such as rice and cassava flour, and for clothes and cooking pans; otherwise it was sold for cash in order to pay taxes, fines, for marriage, childbirth, funeral service and other social and cultural obligations. In the 1970s and 1980s, nearly a half (in weight) of their catch was traded, and the r...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Eligibility: 16-Eligibility Report (English)

...compensation areas. Response: Creation of environmental offsets and compensation areas is one of a series of alternative “Appropriate conservation and mitigation measures…” defined in Annex A of OP 4.04 (paragraph e). The measures selected “… depend on the ecological characteristics of the Management Response - Page 77 given site…” The creation of offsets or compensation areas is not appropriate to the proposed ...

Complaint > Jute Sector Adjustment Credit Project

Management Response: Management Response

...compensation people are eligible for under the law, and JMBA pays the balance to cover the differential between basic compensation and replacement cost. There have been numerous delays and difficulties related to replacement cost compensation, and it has been a subject of continuous discussion between IDA and JMBA23. Many delays are caused by incomplete and inaccurate land records. Some of the problems of ...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: First Management Progress Report

...compensation amounts were appropriate and in line with national laws and regulations. The Bank would procure an independent technical advisor to assist UNRA in reviewing compensation amounts and calculating any additional compensation required, by January 1, 2017. If it was determined that additional compensation needed to be paid by the Contractor, UNRA would insist on Contractor compliance with this obligation. If any required payment was not made, the GoU committed to ...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Third Management Progress Report

...compensation victims except one had been compensated in accordance with the amounts and calculating any recommendations of the insurance expert. The family of the additional compensation that may be remaining victim (a fatal accident) had engaged a private lawyer required, by January 1, 2017. If it is and was claiming additional c...

Complaint > Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Project

Filing: Request for Inspection

...compensation during these closures), • reduced operating loomage, • lost business/customers, • reduced revenue, • significant financial losses due to operating costs exceeding realised revenues, and • difficulties in us eventually acquiring working capital and capital improvement loans and in negotiating viable terms and conditions (due to above operating problems and uncertainties/risks associated with local commercial bank's perceived lac...

Complaint > Second Urban Environment Sanitation Project

Management Action Plan: 49-First Management Progress Report (English)

...compensation. o Payment of compensation to the people affected by the EI was consequently deferred until the RAP could be completed, which was delayed for the reasons explained above. A draft RAP was substantially completed, but its finalization was contingent upon final site selection in light of the EA. o Although the Government has now decided to exclude Kwabenya from the Project, the takin...

Complaint > Santa Fe Infrastructure Project and Provincial Road Infrastructure Project, 1st Request

Eligibility: 42-Eligibility Report (English)

...cash, with the amount corresponding to replacement cost at market price. Compensation will be provided before land acquisition is undertaken. Additionally, the PSF is assessing the legal status of the land acquired by expropriation in the 1970s. 37. In its Response, Management indicates that the proposed Project would be categorized as “Category B”. According to Management, the Project area is already heavily developed and no significant adverse environmental impacts will...

Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Response

...compensation valuation in Lebanon. The EC, which is independent of the CDR, decides the compensation rates based on many . factors, such as the consultation with P APs, listed prices, recent transactions, location, and land use. The EC unit compensation rates varied from the RAP rates. The RAP includes 11 categories of land with compensation rates ranging from US$13.33 to US$33.33 per square meter, while the EC's land categorization is different, and the compensation rates range from US$20.00 t...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...cash compensation and provision of economic livelihood; for non landowners, a plot for land for a house and employment. Such options were to be provided to each family member aged 18 and over. 37. Of those displaced prior to Bank involvement through acquisition of land for construction of ash dykes for Phase I of Rihand and Vindhyachal as well as the Singrauli thermal plant by 1993 some had relocated to other areas, most had been moved to resettlement colonies (Chilkadand for Singrauli, Punarwas...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report

...compensation is covered by the Workman’s Compensation Act, and in the case of accidental death such compensation is limited to 60 times the worker’s monthly wage at the time of death.127 Disability compensation paid to an accident victim is determined by a district medical officer and not by the insurance company. The company further told the Panel that although Ugandan law limits worker’s compensation insurance payments, no such limits would apply to an additional and separate death and disabil...

Complaint > Water Supply Augmentation Project, Greater Beirut Water Supply Project and its Additional Financing

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...compensation valuation in Lebanon. The EC, which is independent of the CDR, decides the compensation rates based on many . factors, such as the consultation with P APs, listed prices, recent transactions, location, and land use. The EC unit compensation rates varied from the RAP rates. The RAP includes 11 categories of land with compensation rates ranging from US$13.33 to US$33.33 per square meter, while the EC's land categorization is different, and the compensation rates range from US$20.00 t...

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

Management Action Plan: 26-First Management Progress Report-6 August 2004.pdf

...cash compensation is not a satisfactory means, nor population to be resettled. is principal occupation the sole criterion for income restoration. • The Bank is committed to ongoing enhanced supervision of all Project resettlement activities. • Management will continue to urge EBY to collect the necessary baseline data, and it will monitor how the current PARR responds to t...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Second Management Progress Report

...compensation The GoU has committed to complete RAP implementation on the Fort Portal – Kamwenge Road is close land acquisition and compensation to conclusion. As of February 22, 2018, 98 percent of claimants payments to Project-affected people, (2,949) had received all compensation due (4 percent more than in in line with national laws and Bank the previous reporting period). UNRA is working on compensating policy requirements, by no later than the remaining 2 percent of cla...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report

...cash compensation and provision of economic livelihood; for non landowners, a plot for land for a house and employment. Such options were to be provided to each family member aged 18 and over. 73. There is an important difference in treatment between the ReAps and the Phase II RAPs: compensation and rehabilitation for pre-1993 affected people was offered on a family basis, or to Project Affected Families. Benefits under the 1993 RAPs are to be app...