Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Compliance Report: Investigation Report (English)

...compensation.269 Given this situation, the RAP states that “THDC through NGO will facilitate purchase of private land for the land losing PAFs on a “willing buyer-willing seller” basis.”270 The assumption is that cash compensation for land and other immovable assets will be sufficient to meet the Bank policy objective of livelihood restoration. 263 The Panel notes that a new national land acquisition act, the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Filing: Request for Inspection

...compensation was given in the form of money to a community which had little experience of handling monetary transactions. Even this money was inadequate to reestablish their former living standards or to purchase replacement land and rebuild lost assets. The WB policy on involuntary resettlement recognises the insufficiency of cash compensation particularly in situations such as Singrauli. The policy stresses the importance of land based compensation schemes, even in areas with a high population...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-Fourth Management Progress Report

...compensation for crops and trees based on fair market value and adjusted prices; (c) updates of the socio-economic survey of Project affected persons; (d) assignment of a Project staff for targeted vulnerable groups during the compensation period; (e) provision of the livelihood restoration program; (f) full disclosure of compensation process; (g) engagement of an independent monitor to witness the payment process; (h) establishment of an adequate grievance mechanism that incorporates the use of...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Eligibility: 32-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...cash equivalent for the The Panel notes that the space limita- value of 225 sq. feet. tions will affect a significant number of In the case of non-title holders, the same entitlements shops. are provided, except cash compensation, since they are not entitled to such compensation under the Land ...

Complaint > Amaravati Sustainable Capital City Development Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Third Report and Recommendation(English)

...cash compensation may be appropriate where active markets for land exist, displaced persons use such markets, and there is sufficient supply of land. Cash compensation levels need to be sufficient to replace the lost land and other assets at full replacement cost in local markets. 61 54. The PAD explains that the Bank assessed the appropriateness of cash compensation under LARR and confirmed that an active market for agricultural land exists in the vicinity of Amaravati and that the cash c...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Filing: 89-Request for Inspection (English and Russian)

...cash crop, costs the nation’s children tens of millions of hours of school time annually and exposes the children to serious health and safety risks. The systemic, government orchestrated forced child labor in Uzbekistan has been widely condemned by the International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations (UN) bodies, The European Union (EU), the United States (US), private companies, and a myriad of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In planning for and approving the Second Rural Enterpr...

Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Compliance Report: 31-Investigation Report (English)

...compensation for the potential impacts is provided under the Project, e.g. water and sanitation services, in accord with OD 4.01. The Panel welcomes the initiative to provide compensation for the Afro- Colombian minorities, but finds that details about some of the compensation measures are not specific, and it is unclear whether appropriate financial arrangements have been made to implement benefits, such as sanitation...

Complaint > Electricity Expansion Project

Management Action Plan: Second Management Progress Report

...cash period) compensation for those Project affected people who were found eligible and who were wrongly omitted, based on the outcome of the verification (under A.1). B) Consultation, Participation and Grievance Redress 1) Review the Grievance - KenG...

Complaint > Energy Loss Reduction Project (Rogun HPP, Tajikistan)

Management Response: 70-Management Response (English)

...Compensation. The methodology to be used in valuing losses to determine their replacement value and a description of the proposed types and levels of compensation. v. Entitlement Matrix and Compensation Measures. Definition of affected persons and criteria for determining their eligibility for compensation and resettlement assistance. An entitlement matrix defining compensation packages and other resettlement measures that will assis...

Complaint > Natural Resource Management Project

Compliance Report: 84 - Investigation Report (English)

...cash compensation; this process, however, seems to have been delayed by local objections and by political developments, most notably the terrorist attack on Westgate mall in Nairobi in October 2013. 87. The Panel was told of a number of significant concerns about this one-time cash compensation, including a concern that if the people accepted compensation and were not allowed to live or be relocated together, then they would be “blown to the wind” resulting in great harm to their cultural i...

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

Management Action Plan: 26-Inspection Panel Review of Management Progress Report

...cash compensation based on how close they live to the ditches that are going to be built. 32. Management stated that EBY started supplying drinking water t o the residents six months earlier. Management also noted that the Bank has always discouraged EBY from compensating people for impacts not directly related t o the Project because this would set a precedent very difficult to reverse. For this reason, the Bank i...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Management Action Plan: 32-Sixth Management Progress Report

...cash compensation for the land they had lost; they the social and economic needs of the affected people, could utilize these to build properties elsewhere. the drawing up of resettlement action plans, and Private interest in resettlement increased as the the establishment of mechanisms and capacity for developers learnt to convert TDR/FSI into profitable implementation. The government did all that was investments in the Mumb...

Complaint > DRC High Priority Roads Reopening and Maintenance (2nd Additional Financing)

Eligibility: Management Report and Recommendation(English)

...compensation is paid retroactively to all eligible quarry and borrow pit owners and operators and that the Borrower retain a compliance auditor to review the compensation amounts and to confirm that they were fair and proportionate. The compliance auditor confirmed in February 2018 that compliance of RN2 quarries and borrow pits had been restored, including compensation paid to owners/operators. See Annex 2. 73. The ex-post processing of compensation after works had started and the absence ...

Complaint > Third Power Project, Fourth Power Project, and proposed Bujagali Hydropower Project

Other: 24-Annexes to Management Report and Recommendation

...Compensation for Tourism: In failing to ensure 8.6, OD Comment: Loss of tourism income and employment was dealt that compensation was paid, and/or rehabilitation 301- 4.30 with in two ways: (1) at the level of the tourism enterprises or op- was provided, to people who will lose their primary 307 erators; and (2) at the level of project-affected individuals deriving sources of income as a result of the Project’s im- income from touri...

Complaint > Second National Water Development Project - AdditionalFinancing

Filing: 86-Request for Inspection (English)

...cash   for   credits   on   the   meter   can   be   scarce   at   times.   A   regular   credit   meter   would   allow   the   essential   service   to   continue   for   a   period   in   credit   mode,   whereas   a   cash   poor   individual   would   have   to   suffer  without  water  with  a  prepaid  meter.  The  consequences  can  be  particularly  dire  in   emergency   situations  ...

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

Compliance Report: 103-Inspection Panel Investigation Report(English)

...compensation options, processes, and procedures. It recommended providing clearer compensation options, making more effort to collect information about the affected households and better informing them about compensation options through a public information campaign, and undertaking a transparent consultation process. 131 In June 2005 a pre-identification mission for another Bank project undertook preliminary evaluation of Kosovo’s resettlement practices in relation to the Bank’s Involuntary Res...

Complaint > Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Clean-Up Project, First Request

Compliance Report: 47-Investigation Report (English)

...cash, and/or employment) if they occupy the project area prior to a cut-off date, established by the borrower and acceptable to the Bank. Only persons who “encroach on the area after the cut-off date are not entitled to compensation or any other form of resettlement assistance.” (b) Management Decision Not to Apply the Policy to Ongoing Demolitions in the Project Area In explaining Management’s decision not to apply OP/BP 4.12 for demolitions in the Project area, the PAD states tha...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Lessons Learned and Agenda for Action

...Compensation Process for Land Acquisition along Right of Way. The compensation of the more than 2,800 affected people was poorly managed by the Government and UNRA (as well as by its consultant, SURVECO) and was a primary reason for serious and persistent grievances among the communities and individual households affected. By December 2014, some 15 months after the Contractor had mobilized, the right of way had yet to be finalized. There were also other unresolved issues, including inadequate co...

Complaint > Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project

Registration: 91-Annexes to the Notice of Non-Registration - Request for Inspection, Management Action Plan, related documents (English)

...cash compensation is all that is offered, the government needs to ensure that affected people are provided with appropriate sustainable livelihood assistance, such as skills training, micro-credit, and employment opportunities.”165 It is essential that people who are unable to provide for themselves are offered adequate alternative housing. The UN Basic Principles provide that “[c]ash compensation should under no circumstances replace real compensation in the form of land and common property res...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Eligibility: 32-Eligibility Report (English)

...compensation for economic losses and other rehabilitation benefits. 7. The Requests concern the proposed construction of one of the east-west connecting roads within the road-based transport component described above and the proposed resettlement and rehabilitation of affected persons. 8. In the road-based transport component, in addition to the larger Jogeshwari- Vikhroli Link Road of 11 kilometers, the Project will develop the Santa Cruz- Chemb...