Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Eligibility: 32-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...wind direction is towards the north, odor-related prob- lems are small. Action: The Bank will request that MMRDA undertake a specific study of the drainage line from the dump site to the waterway passing through Mankhurd to deter- mine if mitigation ...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Filing: Request for Inspection (English)

...wind generation should be explored more thoroughly. Secondly, we have suggested to WB officials that a redesign of the project will reduce the negative environmental impacts substantially. We have suggested that an obstruction may be made on part of the river bed instead of making a dam across the river bed. This will ensure river bed connectivity. It will make it possible for downward flow of sediments and upward migration of fish. This technique is traditionally used in Uttarakhand for running...

Complaint > Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project and Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project - Additional Financing

Filing: 115-Request for Inspection-26Nov2016

...winds converge, but due to the local differences in elevations, and the continentally, the climate is modified to “modified equatorial climate”. This climate is much cooler than the general tropical continental climate or highland subtropical climate and changes with altitude, becoming semi-arid towards the lower reaches of the catchment. Climate Change versus Climate Variability Climate Change refers to a change in the state of the climate that persists for an extended period, typically decades...

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

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...wind, drawdown zone vegetation, upper catchment inputs (especially from sewage and runoff), decay of inundated soil and biomass, growth and decay of aquatic plants, methane bubbles (due to lower hydrostatic pressure), plankton growth and decay, degassing ...

Complaint > Itaparica Resettlement and Irrigation Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...wind speedsof 10 metersper second or more. Consequently,up to 50% of the area is notproperly concludeshis letter by exhortingthe WorldBank irrigated The coordinator to act in favor of the project: We wish to drawyour attention once again to this cynical disregard,so that the WorldBank can truly assumeits resp...

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

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...winding down; most of the easily accessible timber has already been harvested. In future, transportation costs will predictably be higher and eastern DRC timber less competitive with timber in neighboring countries. The following brief summary of eastern DRC timber export activities draws on sources in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. A-2.2.1 Uganda Throughout the civil war Uganda imported the highest volumes of eastern DRC timber. Mahoganies (Khaya spp. and Entandophragma spp.) accounted for the maj...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Compliance Report: 62-Investigation Report (English)

...window of opportunity to resume lending, was rushed and would have "benefited from a more complete preparation of the arrangements for the operation of the RMTFs and finalization of the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the consultancies under the Project.‖45 37. Project Status. Management states that two years after Board approval "…key Project activities including road reconstruction and maintenance, infill planting and provision of local services and inf...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Compliance Report: 16-Investigation Report (English)

...windbreaks and sand consolidation vegetation in the surrounding areas. This may lead to soil desertification in the cutting areas; 2) If farmland shelter belts or windbreaks are not adequately developed into a system in a timely manner or are destroyed, it will cause soil desertification or will result in a reduction of crop yield in the development area; 3) The accidental break down of the water supply systems and/or irrigation facilities will result in a reduction in agricultural, forestry and...