Complaint > Itaparica Resettlement and Irrigation Project

Management Response: Management Response

...change and shifting priorities took their toll on execution. Lack of cooperation among different agencies and the politicization of resettlement caused additional problems. As a consequence of these factors, long delays and cost overruns affected implementation. Current program costs are estimated at more than double the o r i g d estimates and approximately 3,560 of the 5,800 farming families affected by the dam are still awaiting completion of imgation on their lots. Nevertheles...

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

Eligibility: 27-Eligibility Report (English)

...changes were made in the pipeline route to avoid sensitive natural habitats, and indigenous groups. These changes were incorporated in the 1999 EA/EMP. According to Management, the EA adopted a method which avoids or minimizes the costs of environmental damage in the selection of the preferred alternatives for each component and for the Pipeline Project as a whole. 36. Management recognizes the gaps in the baseline data collected in the 1997 EA and ...

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

Management Response: 103-Management Report and Recommendation

...changes in the configuration of the proposed KRPP are now being discussed between GoK and the private investor. These changes have rendered parts of the draft ESIA outdated. The draft ESIA is based on a 2x300 MW plant configuration and on the assumption that Kosovo A will be closed down. The draft ESIA would need to be revised and updated in detail by the KRPP private investor to reflect any new KRPP design, specifically regarding the chosen technology and plant capacity and including relev...

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

Management Action Plan: 54-Second Management Response and Report on Progress (English)

...climate reforms to generate growth, and the need to pursue the restruc- turing of other parastatals, additional financing of US$60 million was approved for the project in April 2008, and the project was extended at that time to December 31, 2012. The purpose of the additional financing was to support investment climate reform activi- ties and jump start the reform of SNCC, the public railway, while a proposed World Bank-financed transport operation was being prepared. The Mid-Term Review of...

Complaint > South-West Roads: Western Europe-Western China International Transit Corridor (CAREC-1b & 6b) (Second Request)

Management Response: 74-Management Response (English)

...changed from an APL to a SIL as this was the only Bank instrument that would fulfill the request by the Government. With the change of the lending instrument from an APL to a SIL at appraisal, the entire Project was reclassified as environmental Category A, involving involuntary resettlement. The implication of this re-classification was that the EARF was no longer sufficient for the requirements under OP 4.01, which specify that a detailed Environmental Assessment (EA) report covering all ...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...changes in the companies’ ownership and permitting a company to bid upon a concession even through one of the company’s owners owed money to the government; • Breaches of laws prohibiting collusion between bidders; • Violations of laws prohibiting the award of logging concessions on private land; • Negotiations that illegally changed the tax requirements outlined in bid documents after bids had been awarded. Had the contractual changes not been exposed by i...

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

Filing: 27-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate change. Furthermore, the potential impacts of possible oil accidents have not been analysed. Preparation of the emergency plan in the event of an oil leak was conducted without the slightest public consultation. • The environmental impact study has not undertaken an analysis of the cumulative and overall impacts of the project. For example, it has not taken sufficient account of the operations for exploiting oil in the Ebomé region (Kribi), and no study of the alterna...

Complaint > Integrated Disaster and Land Management

Registration: 101-Notice of Non-Registration(English)- 2 March 2015

...Climate Change Activities (USD 3,703,703). The total amount allocated for the Project is USD 16,947,407. The Project’s closing date is February 18, 2016. 9. According to the Project Appraisal Document (PAD), the Project “will benefit communities living in flood-prone areas in all five regions of Togo (Savanna, Maritime, Plateau, Central, and Kara). The project will also benefit communities settled in the buffer zones of selected protected areas as well as farmers in selected rural areas.” 1...

Complaint > Second Urban Environment Sanitation Project

Compliance Report: 49-Investigation Report (English)

...changes in project concept or design, as appropriate, as the project evolves or circumstances change; (d) identify the key risks to project sustainability and recommend appropriate risk management strategies and actions to the borrower; and (e) prepare the Bank’s Implementation Completion Report to account for the use of Bank resources, and to draw lessons to improve the design of future projects, sector and country strategi...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Filing: Request for Inspection (English)

...change with officials of the World Bank in regard to this loan. We had submitted a representation to Ms Isabel Guerrero, VP, South Asia, WB in March 2012 attaching therewith copies of earlier exchanges with the WB officials. We have received a reply to this representation from WB Officials in June 2012. However, the reply only re-states the positions taken in earlier exchanges hence we are not giving a point-wise rejoinder to this reply. These documents are attached for your kind perusal, please...

Complaint > Phase 1B of Lesotho Highlands Water Project, 1st Request

Filing: 12-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate that now exists. 1.4 The LHWP. By way of background to the LHWP itself, concerns have often been expressed about design flaws associated with the first (completed) dam (Katse, Phase 1A). This Claim is based on the argument that "both Phase 1A and the next dam to be built -- Mohale (along with a diversion weir and tunnel to the Katse Reservoir), known as "Phase 1B" -- cause harm to the claimants and others similarly situated. Indeed we believe that a $50 million World Bank loan for Phase ...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Management Response: Management Response

...change the location of the ashdike to Mithini (Rihand project site) was indeed the result of an attempt to further minimize resettlement and impact on agricultural land. Upgrading of existing ash dikes has also been considered and the land requirements for ash disposal are being brought down from 0.8 acre/MW to 0.6 acre/MW through improved ash pond management. However, the acquisition of additional land could not be entirely avoided. Management was satisfi...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Management Action Plan: 44-First Management Progress Report

...Climate Change and commitment to disclose the Lake monthly “water release” information since Hydrology Risks; Victoria hydrological (water releases) December 2008 to the EAC. Potential Impacts on information and make it available to Lake Victoria; the EAC. Alternative Project Configurations (OP4.01) 4 II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND ST...

Complaint > Natural Resource Management Project

Compliance Report: 84 - Investigation Report (English)

...change in terminology within the Project came from the GoK and that this change would have no substantive implications for the Project. The Bank “explained repeatedly that the use of the term “VMGP” does not in any way diminish the benefits and protections available” to members of the Cherangany-Sengwer community who opposed the change.96 162. Nevertheless, Indigenous Peoples leaders remained concerned, and at a Regional Consultation Workshop held in Nakuru in March 2012 supported by a Man...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Management Response: Management Response (English)

...changed. power house location is changed 6. Project affected people 6. The project is at initial stage discussed the opportunity of and hence employment possible employment with opportunities are not THDCIL. available. However in future if project is constructed, accordingly employment ...

Complaint > Mining Development and Environmental Control Assistance Project

Compliance Report: 20-Investigation Report (English)

...changes with authorities, Project Staff and consultants. 89. OD 13.05 states that “[p]roject supervision is one of the Bank’s most important activities.” It adds that the “ main purposes [of project supervision] are, inter alia, to identify problems promptly as they arise during implementation and help the borrower resolve them, and to modify as necessary the project concept and design as the project evolves during implementation or as circumstances change (in this context, Ban...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Response: 40-Management Response (English)

...Climate Change. to reduce the flaring and venting of gas associated with the As such, gas flaring is doing great harm to 5 Joint UNDP/World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme 2004. 30 West African Gas Pipeline Project OD/ No ...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Eligibility: 40-Eligibility Report Annex II Management Response

...Climate Change. to reduce the flaring and venting of gas associated with the As such, gas flaring is doing great harm to 5 Joint UNDP/World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme 2004. 30 West African Gas Pipeline Project OD/ No ...

Complaint > Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project

Eligibility: 19-Eligibility Report (English)

...changes have favored the success of the Nile perch and contributed to the extinction of endemic fish species. Although the water quality changes may have favored the establishment of the Nile perch, reports of more frequent fish kills in recent years have raised questions on the sustainability of the fishery. While ecosystemic changes are well documented, the causes for these changes are uncertain because basic data have not been acquired over time on the quantity and quality of water input from...

Complaint > Power Sector Generation and Restructuring Project

Management Response: 46-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...change of Government in 2005 and Management’s letters to the Government in April and May 2006, in which the Bank requested confirmation from the new Government of Albania that it agreed with continuation of the Power Sector Generation and Restructuring Project. Management would like to reiterate that when the Government in Albania changed, following elections in June 2005, the Bank gave time for the new authorities to review the project, recognizing that it had been the subject of political deba...