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 > 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 conducting...

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 > 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 > 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 problems suc...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Management Response: 78-Management Response (English)

...labor market flexibility should be sustained and labor taxes kept low to promote labor demand, active labor market programs need to be strengthened to facilitate the transition to work. Employment rigidity is among the lowest in the region and labor taxes are low. Kosovo faces the challenge of maintaining these favorable conditions in the face of pressures to increase worker protection and social services. It has done so successfully, for example, by passing a health insurance law that transform...

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 > 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 appears...

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 > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Compliance Report: Final Report in English and in Gujarati [PDF]

...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: January to ...

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 grow...

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 > 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: Human rights violation an...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Monitoring: CRP 2nd Annual Monitoring Report in English and in Gujarati

...children. Only 14 children were identified as affected by respiratory diseases in villages located within the airshed compared to 2 children in the 2 control villages. Of the 14 children identified as affected by respiratory diseases, only 7 children were clinically examined. This sample size is too small to draw robust conclusions and to establish a baseline. This is regrettable as the most immediate health impact of elevated levels of PM10 and PM2.5 are respiratory diseases among the young and...

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 ...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-02/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...children. We do not have enough money to send our children to school, on top of it OT’s impacts are causing pressure on our lives. What we want is to get our homeland rehabilitated and impacts compensated. We need help in order make our children get a good education and job place. As long as OT exists, it will continue affect our land, our life and our children’s livelihood every single moment of its operation. I do really want to get help to give my ...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-01/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...children. We do not have enough money to send our children to school, on top of it OT’s impacts are causing pressure on our lives. What we want is to get our homeland rehabilitated and impacts compensated. We need help in order make our children get a good education and job place. As long as OT exists, it will continue affect our land, our life and our children’s livelihood every single moment of its operation. I do really want to get help to give my ...

Complaint > Jute Sector Adjustment Credit Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...child care, food security, revenue tmnsfer, short-term credit, labor mchange and other basic sources of socio-economic support are dissolved Destruction of the social support system would inevitably bring disaster in the lives of the people. Agriculture, household based craR activities are being run on the basis of the kinshq relation. Considering the notion of dependency of the people, through which their survival mechanism get impetus, we can easily draw conclusion that the destruction of Whq ...

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

Eligibility: 27-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...labor relations and HIV/AIDS. Management’s response provided detaile d discussion of cumulative impacts, institutional development, protected areas, the Bakola/Bagyeli people, compensation payments and processes, the Bank’s intensified supervision of the Pipeline Project and labor relations. The full response is available at www.inspectionpanel.org. In its Report to the Board, the Panel found the Request eligible and recommended that the Executive Directors authorize an investigation. The invest...