Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89-Eligibility Report and Recommendation (English)

...climate, any investment in the agricultural sector merely sustains the actual system and the forced and child labor policy underpinning it. 16. Impacts on the provision of public services (Education and Health). The Requesters claim that, one of the direct harms from the perpetuation of the system of forced and child labor is the strain on public services (including essential medical care and education). They claim that systemic usage of forced labor hi...

Complaint > Rio Bogota Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project

Filing: 108-Request for Inspection

...changed your mind? 10. Why violate the principles and agreements enshrined in Law 164 of October 27, 1994 (ratifying the country’s adherence to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change); the same applies to Law 629 of December 27, 2000 ratifying the country’s adherence to the Kyoto Protocol on GHG (Greenhouse Gases). 11. Dr. Peñaloza, why are you “proposing that Bogota become a conurbation with the four municipalities? This is why CA...

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

Eligibility: 12-Eligibility Report (English)

...changes in water allocation, repair of leaky infrastructure, a daily lifeline amount of water … and other approaches.” The Management Response addresses compliance with this policy only in terms of Lesotho, not South Africa. However, with respect to meeting the needs of poor water consumers in South Africa, it states that: “any postponement of the Phase 1B Project would carry net economic and financial costs to South Africa and hence would more likely harm than help poor water consumers. Signifi...

Complaint > Land Administration Project (First Request)

Compliance Report: 53-Investigation Report (English)

...change, it may be necessary to make corresponding changes in the project or its implementation arrangements. 149 266.Work in the Annex Areas began in mid-2007. By then, there were serious conflicts relating to the loss of land tenure security stemming from the development of the Bocas del Toro islands as a tourist destination, the changes accompanying the highway that connected Grand Chiriqui with Guabito, and the granting of hydroelectric concessions ov...

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

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report(English)

...change of sex for food, clothes, money, shelter, school fees, rent, or other survival needs. In an effort to distinguish survival sex from other forms of sexual exchange, this report does not use the term “transactional sex,” defined here as the exchange of sexual services for compensation through money or goods “where both parties consent and negotiate the details of the transaction.” 285. Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or phys...

Complaint > Electricity Expansion Project

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report (English)

...changes in lifestyles and technological advancements. This tenacity of pastoralism testifies to its appropriateness as a production system.”238 9. Interviews with members of the PAP communities show that many were aware of recent changes in national legislation that draw attention to historical events negatively affecting pastoral communities such as the Maasai and the legal recognition of community rights to communal grazing. Given the history of land in Naivasha, and Maasai areas gener...

Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation(English)

...changes in the project during implementation." Rather than change the project to d u c e the enhnmcntaî and social impacts in light of repeated violations of loan agreements and project documents, the Banks changed the project to allow the borrower to de;lay implementation of these neglected components. 65. Findy, the Banks did not adequately exercisc their medics when the bomwr failed to comply with project conditions. (OD 13.05, para. 41). In particular, the Banks h u...

Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Compliance Report: 23-Annexes to Investigation Report (English)

...change to their content and scope ProDosed Proiect &dit Coal Sector Enivironmental and Social Coal Sector Rehabilitation Project (CSRP) April 1996 II Environmental sent to the Board .. ~ Assessment Summary ~. Staff Appraisal Report (SAR) and Me:morandum and Recommendation ...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Compliance Report: 62-Investigation Report (English)

...changed dramatically in the last decade. In Papua New Guinea, changes are being brought about with the accreditation process in the ISO14000 management systems, and the certification process under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). The Panel is of the view that the attempts to have the Project‘s key instruments comply with RSPO standards is a major step forward in minimizing adverse environmental impacts. Notwithstanding, given the extent of deforestation, pollution from mill effluen...

Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Compliance Review: Review and Assessment (English)

...changes; hydrological changes; and possible increases in illegal fishing, among others. 166. Mitigation actions called for in the EA include scientific monitoring of fish transfer facilities, water flow management, fish re-population, and control of illegal fishing. Presently EBY has on-going programs for the study of fish populations and commercial fishing upstream, gas super-saturation monitoring, fish elevator efficiency, watershed management, and fish popul...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report (English)

...changes, as needed, as the project evolves or circumstances change, and to identify key risks and recommend strategies and actions. Mission Duration, Frequency and Expertise The Panel notes that there were long gaps between supervision missions prior to the Request. Furthermore, safeguard staff mainly concerned themselves with Project preparation and were far less involved in the construction phase of the Project. The Panel finds that Management did not ensure adequate supervi...

Complaint > Giza North Power Project

Management Response: 85-Management Response (English)

...changes that are taking place in Egyptian society. Management will continue to listen to communities, be in a learning mode, and be ready to adapt our support to programs and projects in Egypt accordingly as it has been doing in Giza North. V. RESPONSE TO SPECIFIC ISSUES RAISED IN THE REQUEST Construction Related Impacts and Compensation 15. Groundwater Issues: Impacts associated with groundwater lowering were temporary and narrow in scope, and the groundwater table...

Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Compliance Report: 23-Investigation Report (English)

...change in their attitude and approach towards the need to address social issues created by mine development and exploitation. In the Panel’s view, however, it will take much more time, strong leadership, satisfactory and timely internal and external measures, the employment of appropriate expertise and, probably, significant changes in career incentives for the new approach to filter down to those at the mine level in Parej East. By analogy with changes in the World...

Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Compliance Review: 32-Investigation Report (English)

...changes likely to result from the study, may help bring the Project into compliance with some of the provisions of Bank resettlement policy discussed in this section. Proposed Road Widening and its Displacement Effects The Requesters complain that they are being forced to move because of a change in the technical design of the Santa Cruz Link Road (SCLR). MMRDA has proposed to widen the road from 39 meters to 45.7 meters. The change is not part of the original design of the MUT...

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

Compliance Report: 47-Investigation Report (English)

...changeably in this Report. 5 Himare and Himara are used interchangeably in this Report. 6 The full text of both Requests for Inspection and Management Response are included in the Panel’s Report and Recommendation dated October 17, 2007. These are available at the Panel’s website, www.inspectionpanel.org. 1 underlying claim did not warrant by itself a recommendation to investigate...

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

Compliance Report: 26-Investigation Report (English)

...changes as circumstances changed is not in compliance with OD 13.05 on Project Supervision. The fact that belatedly at the end of 2003 the Bank suggested some design changes with respect to a resettlement site does not yet bring the Bank into 467 Management Memorandum, Yacyretá Inspection: Follow-up to Your Memo dated December 10, 2003, Concerning certain Resettlement-related Components, January 13, 2004. ...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Compliance Report: 60-Investigation Report (English)

...changes in project concept or design, as appropriate, as the project evolves or circumstances change; 9 OMS 2.20, ¶ 61. 10 OD 4.30, ¶3(b). 11 OD 4.30, ¶ 4. 12 OD 4.30, ¶ 26. 9 d. identify the key risks to project sustainability and recommend appropriate risk management strategies and actions to the borrower (…). 40. BP 13.05 spells out these provisions in more detail at the operational level ...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report

...changes in road design that affected different residents’ assets. Such residents had their assets assessed and received forms confirming the planned changes. However, in some places where the Project decided to return to the original design, the newly affected residents did not receive corrected, updated, and amended documents as was required, leaving the community with the impression that the change would still occur. 214. During its visit the Panel team observed many buildings for which compen...

Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Compliance Report: 31-Investigation Report (English)

...change on the tradable components of each input, and account for any changes in domestic prices that may occur as a result of the project.”323 It is noted that “[a]ll economic costs of the project inputs are lower than the market costs due to the high taxes and tariffs charged in Colombia that offset the impact of the foreign exchange premium.”324 276. Data from contingent valuation (i.e. hypothetical v...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Management Response: 62-Management Response (English)

...changes in project concept or de- • The Bank conducted two supervision missions since the sign, as appropriate, as the project evolves or Credit was declared effective in January 2009: (a) in March circumstances change; 2009, to launch the Project and assist the implementing (d) identify the key risks to project sustainability agency (OPIC) with the preparation of Project start-up activ- and recommend appropriate risk...