Complaint > Special Structural Adjustment Loan

Filing: 17-Request for Inspection (English)

Volume I of II BOARD OF DIRECTORS Laura Jordán de Conte REQUEST. ANNEX A Chair CELS María Angélica Sosa de CENTER FOR LEGAL AND SOCIAL STUDIES Mignone Vice Chair Rodríguez Peña 286 – 1st floor ; (1020) Buenos Aires - Argentine Republic Patricia Valdez Tel: (54-1-1) 4371-9968/3790 – ...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Eligibility: Additional Review

...Vice President Mieko Nishimizu Director Edwin Lim Sector Manager Alastair McKechnie Task Manager Tjaarda Storm van Leeuwen d INDIA NTPC POWER GENERATION PROJECT (Loan 3632-IN) ...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Eligibility: 60-Eligibility Report (English)

...Vice President (RVP) traveled to Phnom Penh to meet with senior Government officials in August 2009. The RVP reiterated the request for the moratorium on evictions and offered to allocate Bank resources for the resettlement of the BKL communities. According to Management, the RVP proposed to the Government to suspend jointly the Project while the national 18 Management Response, ¶ 58. 19 Management Response, ¶ 59. ...

Complaint > Greater Beirut Water Supply Project

Eligibility: 71-Inspection Panel Report - Follow-up to Board Decision of March 10, 2011

...vices Delivery in the Bank; Brazil – Financial Sector Reform; Brazil – Selected Issues of the Financial Sector; and Brazil – Review of State Banks. 15 Annex 2: Management Note (i) Cover memorandum from Managing Director (ii) Cover memorandum from Regional Vice President (iii) Note and action plan matrix regarding the Request for Inspectio...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Eligibility: 40-Eligibility Report (English)

...Vice-President of the new concerns about fishing activities raised with the Panel during the Panel’s visit to Nigeria and of the FoE-GH letter. The Panel has added both items to the processing of the existing Request. A. The Project Project Objectives 5. The Project aims to contribute to, inter alia, ”improving the competitiveness of the energy sectors in Ghana, Benin, and Togo by promoting the use of cheaper and environmen...

Complaint > Governance Promotion Adjustment Loan

Management Response: 25-Management Response (English)

...vice Commission; reform of the Rural Development Program; reduction of fraud, waste and corruption; civil service reform; and improvement in the quality and efficiency of service delivery in a number of sectors – health and education, financial services, and forestry sector management. 13. Financial support for implementation of the Borrower’s reform program was comprised primarily of the US$90 million GPAL, provided by the Bank, and an IMF standby agreement of SDR 85.5 million (approx...

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

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...president and vice president. M’Ba sought the presidency in March 1967 with Albert Bongo (later Omar) as his running mate. When M’Ba died later that year, Bongo succeeded to office and has retained control ever since. In 1968, Bongo formally converted Gabon to a one-party state, replacing the BDG with the Parti Démocratique Gabonais (PDG). First elected president in his own right in 1975, Bongo has since been reelected four times (in 1979, 1986, 1993, and 1998) for terms of varying length as a r...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Response

...vice Provider, WSS Services Ltd., was contracted. WSS Services Ltd. provides HIV testing, counselling and treatment, as well as general health services for all workers and community members. It carries out HIV/AIDS education and sensitization campaigns through community outreach. Information, education and communication materials have been prepared and distributed. 41. However, WSS Services Ltd. has not been paid in a timely fashion or otherwise assisted by the Contractor over severa...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...vice – an active participant in LFI – even promoted logging in Liberia by claiming the sector could produce revenues similar to those generated during periods of unsustainable logging while Taylor was in power.47 LFI planning documents and meeting minutes demonstrate, however, that the Bank and the US closely collaborated during the LFI reform process,48 and at no point is it known that the Bank project management team corrected the Forest Service’s erroneous arguments about revenues. The ...

Complaint > Indigenous and Community Biodiversity Project (COINBIO)

Management Response: 30-Management Response (English)

...vices rendered result from a contract for the provision of professional services. With that sort of defense, once the claimants have established that there were elements of subordination and provision of services the Collegiate Tribunals have found merit in the claimants' actions; i.e. faced with a lawsuit of people who rendered their services under a contract for the provision of professional services, the defendant can be affected by a badly argued defense or by a wrong interpretation...

Complaint > Land Reform and Poverty Alleviation Project, 1st Request

Eligibility: 14-Eligibility Report (English)

...vices. Beneficiaries tend to select technicians they feel will produce results for them and, if they are not satisfied, have the freedom to make changes. In contrast, public extension and other technical services typically neglect smallholders, and farmers have little choice about the agent assigned to serve them. 37 4.8 A number of evaluation studies of the Project ha...

Complaint > Second Urban Environment Sanitation Project

Eligibility: 49-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...vice Act, passed in June 2003, provided legal and administrative support for decentralizing the provision of basic services, such as urban sanitation.1 However, existing revenue mechanisms, like property tax rates, add minimal 1 The central government provides subsidies to the Metropolitan/Municipal Assemblies (MAs) for solid waste collection, and assists the MAs in establishing better institutional arrangements for the management of the urban environment. In principle, the responsibility for ...

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

Compliance Report: 47-Investigation Report (English)

...Vice President and General Counsel. For the record, the Panel notes that reporting on this issue can not be construed as endorsement of the procedures surrounding the issuance of this Corrigendum or its content. 69 any explanation with respect to events surrounding the misrepresentation to the Board regarding this “error.” F. Panel Process 277. The Panel finally notes that ...

Complaint > Ecodevelopment Project

Eligibility: 11-Eligibility Report (English)

...President, International Development Association EXTENSION: 85120 SUBJECT: INDIA - Ecodevelopment Project (Cr. No. 2916-IN; GEF TGF No. TF028479-IN) Management Response to Request for Inspection 1. Reference is made to the Memorandum dated April 3, 1998, to the President of the International Development Association, by which the Chairman of the Inspection Panel requested Association Management to provide th...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Eligibility: 60-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...Vice President SDR Special Drawing Right SLC Social Land Concession TOR Terms of Reference TWG-L Technical Working Group on Land UN United Nations UNCHS United Nations Human Settlements Programme/Centre for Human Settlements (UN HABITAT) UNDP United Nations Development Programme US$ United States Dollars ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Land Sector: Challenges and Opportunities for Cambodia’s Developm...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Management Response: Management Response (English)

...Vice President, South Asia Department, World Bank on the violation of Operational Policies in grant of loan to THDC India for Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project,” which is signed by one of the Requesters and several other individuals; and (ii) Nine annexes to the letter: (1) Impact of Dams on Quality of Waters of River Ganga as Assessed by Pilgrims at Devprayag, Rishikes...

Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Compliance Review: Review and Assessment (English)

...President, by the then existing office of the Senior Vice President, Operations, in the form of general instructions, supplemented occasionally by “Operational Circulars” or less formal notes from the Senior Vice President, Operations. Following the 1987 reorganization, OMSs were gradually reflected in new documents called “Operational Directives” or “ODs,” some of 1 See ibrahirn F.I. Shihata, The World Bank Inspection Panel, Oxford Un...

Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Eligibility: 31-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...vices. The study objective was to compare the performance of pri- vate and public service providers with regard to expansion The study found that both the public and the private utilities of services in low-income areas. The private water and focused their expansion efforts on low income groups (strata sewerage companies operators in Cartagena, Barranquilla, 1 to 3). With respect to wate...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Eligibility: 16-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...Vice President PAD Project Appraisal Document PID Project Information Document PRSP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper QACU Quality Assurance and Compliance Unit QAG Quality Assurance Group RDV Rural Development Department RED Regional Environment Division RESU ...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Management Response: 78-Management Response (English)

...presidential crises in 2010 and 2011 and a subsequent compromise across all major parties, President Atifete Jahjaga—Kosovo’s first female, first non-partisan president—is expected to be the last head of state elected indirectly by Parliament. Two commissions are currently finalizing a broad-based overhaul of the Constitution and the Electoral Law to allow, inter alia, for the direct election of the President. On this basis, the next rounds of presidential and general elections are foreseen...