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

Management Response: 14-Management Response (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. 4.8 A number of evaluation studies of the Project have been conducted throughout 1998, among them detailed case studies on subprojects in Bahia and Ceara, ...

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 > 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 > 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 (approximatel...

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 > 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 > 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 Liberi...

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 > 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 have been ...

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 the Panel w...

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 Univer...

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 > 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 Support Project and its Additional Financing

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...vices. Dis- A disruption to water supply occurred on November 19, 2018 at Km ruption of utility services. 1+395 when the contractor was excavating drains. Nzoia Water Ser- vices Company Limited (NZOWASCO), responsible for provision of water and sanitation services in the area, had been previously paid to ...

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 in 2...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Management Action Plan: 38- Management Progress Report (English)

...Presidential elections of December 2005 and the Government transition in 2006. Project restructuring was approved by the Regional Vice-president on September 24, 2007. The restructuring updated project implementation arrangements to reflect the current national legal and institutional framework, and modified selected outputs related to Component 2 (details of the restructuring are included in Report N o . 41915-HN - Restructuring Project Paper). The Credit amendment reflecting the restructurin...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-Second Management Progress Report

...vice and guidance from the Sector Manager, Sector Director and the Regional Vice President. Following is the progress over the period February-July 2009: (a) Bank: supervision missions. A full-fledged Bank supervision mission, comprising .of professionals from the HQ and the field, took place during July 13-25,2009. The mission reviewed physical progress, and compliance with the environmental and social . safeguards by WAPCo. Particular attention was paid to the review of progress...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-Third Management Progress Report

...vice and guidance from the Sector Manager, Sector Director and the Regional Vice President. Following is the progress: (a) Bank supervision missions. Two full-fledged Bank supervision missions per year, comprising of professionals from the HQ and the field, have been taking place since 2007. The missions have reviewed physical progress, and compliance with the environmental and social safeguards by WAPCo. Particular attention has been paid to the review of progress on the implemen...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Eligibility: 38-Eligibility Report (English)

...Vice-president of Ofraneh and PATH staff, January 13, 2005 (attached) Annex 2.10: Report of dissemination activities conducted by PATH staff in Garífuna areas, January 2005 Annex 2.11: Invitation and minutes of working session to integrate the provisional Inter-Institutional Commission for the demarcation and titling of Garífuna communities, February 24, 2005 (attached) Annex 2.12: Minutes of the creation of the Mesa Regional de Regularizaci...