Complaint > Yanacocha-03/Cajamarca

Eligibility: Independent Investigation into the Mercury Spill of June 2, 2000 in the Vicinity of San Juan, Choropampa and Magdalena, Peru - June 2000

...Laboratory Analysis of Human Samples for Mercury Blood and urine samples from the first group of patients treated for mercury intoxication were sent to the CICOTOX laboratory in Lima. Because results took 15-20 days, a CICOTOX laboratory was established at RHC using equipment donated by Minera Yanacocha to measure total mercury in human samples. The new laboratory at RHC was established and staffed by Dr. Rosalia Anaya Pajuelo and Dr. Edgar Valentin from the National University of San Marc...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89-Отчет и рекомендации Инспекционного совета (на русском)

...Child labor: issues and directions for the World Bank”, Peter Fallon and Zafiris Tzannatos, 1998, Executive Summary, pp. vi-viii. 26 Неофициальный перевод с английского между фермерами и Финансовыми организациями, будет расширено, и в него будет также включено условие, касающееся принудительного тр...

Complaint > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project (First Request)

Other: 54-Socio-Economic Evaluation (English)

...children attending school overall, however, does not differ significantly by region – even if controlling for household size. An additional 8% have pulled children from school temporarily. This is a fairly common practice in Katanga and is often linked with needing to pay final school fees in order to get final exams. In comparison, a smaller percentage of the PV children of school age (6-15) are in school - sixty-two percent (2009 survey) compared to 66 percent of children aged 6-15 for ur...

Complaint > Productive Infrastructure Program - Request II: Caracol Industrial Park (MICI)

Filing: Complaint

...children. Post-displacement, victims have found it difficult to finance their children’s education as a result of the loss of income.234 Unfortunately, as a result of these financial difficulties, it is likely that female children suffered disproportionately a loss of education: victims are likely to have prioritized their male children for education, with female children expected to take on tasks at home.235 Better inclusion of the views of women would likely have raised the priority of food se...

Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Compliance Report: 23-Investigation Report (English)

...labor opportunities, OD 4.30 provides that “[f]or land-based resettlement, the new site’s ... locational advantages should be at least equivalent to those of the old site.” The Requesters claim that Pindra is further away from causal labor opportunities. Management only mentions the labor opportunities for Pindra resettlers at the coal-loading dump, not opportunities for causal labor or informal labor at the mine site, which is about three km. This lack of opportunity ap...

Complaint > Southeast Europe Equity Fund II

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...child labour, forced labour and discriminatory practices) and community issues, such as cultural property, involuntary resettlement, and impacts on indigenous peoples.” 39. In its opening Mission Statement, OPIC’s Environmental Handbook of 2004 (the relevant reference at the time of signing the Partnership Agreement) states “OPIC will assure that the projects it supports are consistent with sound environmental and worker rights standards. In cond...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Action Plan: 44-Third Management Progress Report

...Labor Officers); (ii) weak mediation of legal cases under the transmission line component; and (iii) lack of benefits to informal tourism workers. The issue of blasting impacts on surrounding households’ human and animal health conditions, etc. was also addressed. 3 III. IMPLEMENTATION OF MANAGEMENT ACTION PLAN 6. Table 1 (below) summarizes the status of actions taken under the MAP. Please see Annex 1 ...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Compliance Report: CRP’s Final Report (English)

...children. More than likely, this has affected his ability to support the family. The CRP visited this home and found it to be in poor condition compared with the other houses at the resettlement site. The family has other children, who are equally poorly off. The loss of these two children represents, among others, a loss of future income and support for this family. 112. The child in Poipet who died on the way home from school was in a comparable situation. There was a longer distance bet...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Filing: 78-Request for Inspection (English)

...child mortality, immunization rates and tuberculosis incidence—Kosovo ranks far below neighboring countries, often by a factor of two. Infant and child mortality rates, which are twice as high as in neighboring countries, result from readily preventable problems—perinatal conditions, respiratory diseases and diarrhea. [18] According to 2007 UNDP data, Kosovo had the highest child and infant mortality rates and the lowest life expectancy (69 years) in South East Europe. Environmental problem...

Complaint > Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited-01/Leon and Chinandega

Agreement: English

...Laboratory monitoring of critical renal function and disease progression Accurate staging and ongoing clinical management of CRI relies on precise laboratory monitoring of renal function. 4.2.1 Availability of laboratory reagents for renal function tests Renal function testing requires an uninterrupted supply of laboratory reagents (reactants) to measure creatinine, uric acid, calcium, phosphorus, and electrolytes. INSS along with MINSA have been unable to secure the pro...

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

Eligibility: 26-Eligibility Report (English)

...child care facilities, community centers, child/youth development, among others. While the Project is demand-based and all eligible populations can access the project, geographic targeting of eligible communities will be used to identify priority areas for further institutional and organizational development assistance to ensure that vulnerable non-organized groups and municipalities with scarce resources have a fair opportunity to access project resources. Potential beneficiaries will be s...

Complaint > Dinant-01/CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...labor overtime issues and status of completion of Labor Audit by labor consultants. September 2012 Environmental Specialist documents advance to the ESAP. November 2012 Further discussion with Dinant and consultants, to develop a comprehensive approach and build management capacity for Dinant to manage risks (political, soc...

Complaint > Uttarakhand State-Road Investment Program - Tranche 3

Closing Report: Closure Report

...labor laws of the Borrower and the State and that these further include provisions to the effect that contractors (i) carry out HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention programs for labor and disseminate information at work sites on risks of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS as part of health and safety measures for those employed during construction, and (ii) follow and implement all statutory provisions on labor (including not employing or using children as labor, equal pay for e...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Compliance Report: Final Report (English)

...labor colony NAAQS=National Ambient Air Quality Standards; PM-10=(respirable) particulate matter less than or equal to 10 microns; PPAH=Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook; SPM= suspended particulate matter; WB=World Bank. Note: Air quality monitoring was conducted at 7 nearby villages and CGPL’s main gate, hostel and labor colony during January 2013-March 2013. Source: Quarterly Environmental & Social Performance Report-Tata Ultra Mega Coal Fired Power Plant, Mundra, Period: Janu...

Complaint > Lydian Intl3-01/Gndevaz & Jermuk

Compliance Report: English

...Labor influx ESIA considers Negative change in people’s view of Jermuk as a Identified impacts of worker spa town due to labor influx noted as having accommodation on potential “long-term effects in terms of number of local communities, visitors arriving in the town and on overall including Jermuk. economic activity and opportunities for tourist (Chapter 6.21) sector...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Compliance Report: 65-Investigation Report (English)

...laborers, land The Panel‘s assessment is that the issue of impacts of the Medupi Power Plant on development and local impacts the local municipality and public services for which the Municipality is responsible is serious, and potentially detrimental to the rights and interests of the Requesters. Claim: concerns about social and The Panel finds that the EIA accepted by Management did not adequately identify environmental effects of labor ...

Complaint > Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Road Sector Project

Filing: 105-Request for Inspection

...children and children after the Chairman of the world bank. thanking you yours sincerely 1 1) Mr 2) Mr. Unquote 2 From: To: Subject: Date: --Fwd: World record Bribery market created by world bank funds in India @ NH 216 Alignment Monday, December 21, 2015 1:51:54 AM the Inspection Panel World Bank Washington DC U.S.A Dear Sir/Madam, Sub: Hu...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Management Action Plan: 32-First Management Progress Report

...children in eight resettlement sites, including Anik and Mankhurd, with information on the number of children going to school, schools available around R&R sites, and gaps between needs and existing facilities. The data indicate that about 3,964 children (74 percent) out of 5,364 children surveyed have received admission in schools in and around the new resettlement sites, while 1,169 (22 percent) children continue to go to schools at the old resettlement sites because of the quality of educatio...

Complaint > Clean Energy and Network Efficiency Improvement Project

Closing Report: Closure Report

...Labor Standards 51. The Borrower shall ensure, or cause CEB and SLSEA to ensure, that all civil works contracts and bidding documents for the Project include specific provisions requiring contractors to (a) comply with all applicable labor laws of the Borrower on the prohibition of child and forced labor; (b) give equal pay for equal work regardless of gender, ethnicity or caste; and (c) disseminate information on sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV/AIDS) and human trafficking t...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, and Petroleum Environment Capacity Enhancement Project

Compliance Report: 27-Investigation Report (English)

...children changed. The teachers said the changes have been enormous. The lifestyle of the children was altered suddenly. Money that never was around was now coming into the community and the hands of their parents. Unlike before, the children got also some money and they became aware of the power of money, and started to realize that their parents were poor people, something they had never thought about before. As a result the children for the first time started to lose respect for their parents ...