Complaint > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project, First Request

Management Response: 54-Réponse de la Direction (Français)

...change virtuel de 200 FC pour 1 dollar. Avec un taux de change au prix du marché de 360 FC pour 1 dollar au moment du calcul, la Gécamines avait la possibilité d’alléger ses charges salariales en équiva- lent dollar. Dans ses calculs, J. Catry proposait de : i) payer l’enveloppe des indemnités de licenciement en dollars, ce qui permettait aux bénéficiaires de courir moins de risque de dépréciation monétaire ; et ii) recourir à un taux de change de 360 FC pour 1 dollar. • L...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Management Action Plan: 34-Second Management Progress Report Annex (English)

...changes in habitat and changes in the chemical-biological profile of the dhands might mean for these species. Despite the remarkable recovery of Nurri Lagoon in 2006, the precipitous declines in the number of birds and species since 2001 is likely to be indicative of important changes in habitat and possibly the chemical and biological profile of the dhands, but the knowledge base does not exist to determine what these may be, and hence, at present it is not really possible to develop and implem...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Management Response: 16-Management Response (English)

...change over time. Changes in the implementation plan now guarantee an improved, more confidential, and more reliable consultation and decision-making input process. The second question raised by the Request was in regard to whether any meaningful consultations are possible in the political context of China. As illustrated above in the context of this Project, in Management’s judgement, consultations with affected people can be effectively carried out in China as envisaged in, and for the purpose...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Filing: Request for Inspection (English)

...change not compensated 9 Cl (mg/l) 1.2 1 1 change not compensated 10 SO4 (mg/l) 35.9 21.1 19.6 change not compensated 11 Sodium (mg/l) 10 2.1 2.6 change not compensated 12 Potassium (mg/l) 3 2.3 2.2 change not compensated 13 PO4 (mg/l) 0.031 0.036 0.048 change not...

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 > Mongolia Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Investment Support - Additional Financing

Eligibility: 102-Second Report and Recommendation(English)

...change and redistribute the annual run-off of the Selenge and its tributaries. In their view, these changes would have damaging effects on the already vulnerable and unique ecosystem of Lake Baikal, 8 Management Response: 29, 30. 9 Management Response: 30. 8 as the river’s annual run off is one of the main factors that guarantee its ecological integrity. A redistribution of the run off could have highly detrimental effects, including epidemic d...

Complaint > Protection of Basic Services Program Phase II Additional Financing and Promoting Basic Services Phase III Project

Filing: 82-Request for Inspection (English)

...changed in 2005. In the aftermath of the national election that year, State security forces reacted to protests with excessive force, killing 200 and arresting over 30,000 people.45 These State-perpetrated abuses led to a suspension of direct budget support by the World Bank and other members of the Development Assistance Group (DAG), a consortium of 26 donors to Ethiopia. 36. Noting the risks of continuing direct budget support in this political environment, ...

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

Compliance Report: 24-Investigation Report (English)

...change resources because some large sources of foreign exchange (including current private transfers, current transfers to government and net concessional medium and long term loans) were assumed to be independent of the slippage variables. It is not explained why these assumptions were justified. It is noted, though, that a 20 per cent annual reduction in these factors would raise the PPA payment to foreign exchange ratio – and as the ratio rises, so does the macro...

Complaint > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project, First Request

Management Response: 54-Deuxième Réponse de la Direction et Rapport d’avancement (Français)

...changes entre la Banque mon- consultations suspendues à la paroisse de Fatima à Kinshasa. diale et les syndicats représentant les anciens sala- riés des banques en liquidation entre 2003 et 2007. 26 septembre 2003 : Un courrier électronique de [le Consultant] infor- Au travers de ces échanges, la Direction s’est effor- mant les représentants des anciens salariés de la non-objection de la ...

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

Management Action Plan: 26-Third Management Progress Report-20 December 2006

...changes to the local authorities in order to allow more flexible resettlement planning and to accommodate some resettlers closer to the city center. 16. Third, EBY’s revised PARR called for publishing a l i s t o f all persons/families entitled to housing, with a period o f 30 days to make additional claims. That is, families not included o n the l i s t could f i l e for entitlement within the 30-day period. The Bank observed that this would be a reasonable approach which, if handled properly,...

Complaint > Governance Promotion Adjustment Loan

Filing: 25-Request for Inspection (English)

...changed in the alienation of their timber resources. In 1990 the World Bank and other donors began to support the State in its attempts to re-assert control over the logging industry. While new legislation and a series of donor -funded activities brought some change, real change was slow in coming and sometimes difficult to see. Certainly, governance was absent in 1994, when a Minister for Forests unlawfully allowed a logging company to begin a road-line clearance of the claimants land: t...

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

Eligibility: 37- Management Report and Recommendations (English)

...changes to the legal structure of forestry in the Congo, the new developments concerning the zonation and potentially the impacts that they will have on the rights, land rights regime in Congo, will affect potentially tens of millions of people. As yet almost none of those people are aware of the major changes that may well be coming their way. And so we fear that this is potentially creating a dangerous situation that may fuel conflict in coming years, as indeed similar kinds of changes have fu...

Complaint > Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance

Filing: 100-Request for Inspection (French)

...Climate Change Resilience? (La Sécheresse Actuelle en Haïti: une Opportunité pour Construire la Résilience au Changement Climatique?) (22 avril 2014), Oxfam America, disponible à http://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2014/04/haiti-drought-opportunity-build-climate-change- resilience/. 107 Voir, par exemple, Evens Sanon et Trenton Daniel, Official: Haiti Drought Causes ‘Extreme’ Emergency Officiel: la Sécheresse en Haït Provoque une 'Extreme' Urgence, Associated Press (18 mars 2014), disp...

Complaint > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project, First Request

Management Response: 54-Management Response (English)

...change rate used for the calculation was a rate which was more favorable than that used by Gécamines in payroll, but less favorable than the exchange rate prevailing at the time of payment (payment took place several months after calculation, while Congolese franc depreciated against the dollar). At the time of the VDP Gécamines salary scales were in US dollars (as decided by Gécamines man- agement) but salaries were paid in Congolese francs, using a virtual exchange rat...

Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Management Response: 31-Management Response (English)

...changes in selected variables (project invest- the actual cost of the outfall sys- tem is likely to be much higher ment costs, as well as property tax collection rate improvements, ad- due to the environmental and ministrative costs, and exchange rate devaluation) on the main finan- other uncertainties mentioned cial indicators of the District (financial shortfall/surplus during project ...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

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

...climate,any investment in the agricultural system merely sustains the state-order system and forced labor which underpins it. In addition, the massive and nationwide forced labor of government employees strains the delivery of many public services, including essential medical care and education. Just in Tashkent, approximately 11,000 nurses and doctors from hospitals and clinics were sent to the fields during the 2012 cotton harvest. As in previous years so in 2012, both high school and universi...

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

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...changed. Typologies exercises conducted by the FATF have indicated increasing use of bureaux de change in laundering operations. Hence it is important that there should be effective counter-measures in this area. This Interpretative Note clarifies the application of FATF Recommendations concerning the financial sector in relation to bureaux de change and, where appropriate, sets out options for their implementation. Definition of Bureaux de Change For the purpose of this Note, bureaux de cha...

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

Management Response: 115-Management Response-17Feb2017

...change; small towns will become bigger cities, communities will require more water for agriculture and recreation. Predicting future water needs for the county would require the AWSB to develop a predictive model, based on population growth, life style trends, climate change etc. Such a model would support the Murang’a County government Technical report that the Murang’a Rivers cannot support designed flow for extraction. 21. 5. Regardless of the Consensus...

Complaint > Mining Development and Environmental Control Assistance Project

Management Response: 20-Management Response (English)

...climate. The Request states that the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve is one of the unique world bio- diversity hotspots and that it contains endangered species. 20. Management Response: The thematic mapping conducted by the Project in no way causes, or has caused, ecological damage to the protected areas, nor does it affect potable water resources or endanger wildlife or natural habitats. Management shares the view of the Requestors that the Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve is a preciou...

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

Management Response: 27-Management Response (English)

...change in the EMP itself, the Change Management Process described in the EMP will be put into effect. Insufficient Analysis of Alternatives – Management believes that the analysis of alternatives was carried out correctly, and that the Pipeline Project, in combination with the CAPECE Project, will bring net benefits to Cameroon. Cumulative Impacts - Management takes the position that the EA/EMP took into account the cumulative impacts a...