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

Compliance Report: 103-Inspection Panel Investigation Report(English)

...USAID’s involvement, through its five-year, REPOWER-KOSOVO project, which started in October 2014, included regulatory assistance, support for clean energy, efforts to unbundle KEK distribution for privatization, feasibility studies for Kosovo B, and a financing strategy for its rehabilitation. USAID also worked extensively on mine stabilization, but did not support mine development. After an explosion at the Kosovo A power plant in 2015 USAID brought in experts to assess the situation. USAID is...

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

Compliance Report: 103-Inspection Panel Investigation Report(Albanian)

...USAID-it, përmes projektit pesë-vjeçar, REPOWER KOSOVO, që filloi në tetor të vitit 2014, përfshinë ndihmën për rregullatorin, mbështetjen për energji të pastër, përpjekjet për ta ndarë distribucionin e KEK-ut për privatizim, studimet e fizibilitetit për Kosovën B, dhe një strategji financimi për rehabilitimin e saj. USAID-i gjithashtu ka punuar gjerësisht për stabilizimin e mihjeve, por nuk ka mbështetur zhvillimin e tyre. Pas një shpërthimi në termocentralin Kosova A në vitin 2015, USAID-i sol...

Complaint > Real LRIF-01/Coban

Compliance Report: English

...USAID (2010) Promoting Sustainable Energy Integration in Central America https://goo.gl/MeP8wB. 2012 Economist Intelligence Unit country reports for Guatemala and Panama and US State Department Human Rights Reviews (2011) for Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama note various indigenous communities’ protests in relation to infrastructure projects. United States State Department Annual Human Rights Reviews (2011) raise concern in regard to violence, conflict and engagement with in...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID, Policy Note, The Niger Delta,” received from the World Bank Country Office, Abuja on July 17, 2007, p. 3. 44 A Nigerian perspective on this matter may be found on the website of the Urhobo Historical Society: http://www.waado.org/Contents.html (accessed April 10, 2008). 45 “World Bank, British High Commission, DfID and USAID, Policy Note, The Niger Delta,” received from the World Bank Country Office, Abuja on July 17, 2007, p.5. 46 World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance P...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report

...USAID Energy and Infrastructure Projects. Rockville, MD: USAID’s Advancing the Agenda of Gender Equality (ADVANTAGE), Task Order 3. https://www.usaid.gov/documents/1865/building-safer-world-toolkit-integrating-gbv-prevention- and-response This toolkit was designed as a guide for technical and program officers working in energy and infrastructure sectors to integrate gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response into various points of the program cycle. It suggests strategies to inte...

Complaint > Program to Improve Highway Corridors in Paraguay

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...USAID United States Agency for International Development 9 Executive Summary 1. This Report is in response to a Request for a Compliance Review of IDB decisions and actions related to a Project 1 referred to as the “Program to Improve Highway Corridors in Paraguay (PR-0035) (933/OC-PR),” approved by the Board of Executive Directors of the IDB in June 1996. ...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report

...USAID (1996) on proposed development and demonstration projects to enhance large volume uses of coal combustion by-products as a structural fill in India, concluded that most of the mines in this region are relatively young with limited reclamation activities, and swell factor for overburden requires space beyond what is currently available. Management, however, plans to continue to pursue the backfilling option with an Northern Coalfields Limited and Coal Indi...

Complaint > IPP4 Al-Manakher Power Project

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...USAID, JICA, UNDP, GTZ, and WHO. The Complainant’s reference to the need for a “neutral, credible, specialized and accredited third party (not the Jordanian authorities nor RSS) such as national or international mediation bodies, independent mediators and facilitators and independent accountability mechanisms” suggests that it is less the technical capabilities of the testing agencies than dissatisfaction on a political plane, especially as the Complaint refers to mediators rather than alternati...

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

Compliance Report: 27-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID United States Agency for International Development UTO Unité Technique Opérationnelle WBG World Bank Group WCS Wildlife Conservation Society WSJV Wilbros-Spie Capag JV WWF World Wildlife Fund iii Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS II TAB...

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

Compliance Report: 37-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID initiated the Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) which is a 20 year regional initiative that aims to increase knowledge about forests and biodiversity in Central Africa and to build institutional and human resources capacity in the region. 44. In 2002, the United States and South Africa together with 27 public and private partners launched the Congo Basis Forest Partnership (CBFP) at the World Summit on Susta...

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

Compliance Report: 27-Investigation Report (French)

...USAID Agence des États-Unis pour le développement international UTO Unité technique opérationnelle VIH/Sida Virus d’immunodéficience humaine/Syndrome d’immunodéficience acquise WCS Société pour la conservation de la faune sauvage WSJV Wilbros-Spie Capag JV WWF Fonds mondial pour la nature 4 TABLE DES MATIERES REMERCIEMENTS SIGLES ET ABREVIATIONS TABLE DE...

Complaint > Power Sector Generation and Restructuring Project

Compliance Report: 46-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID). Final Report: USAID Support for Commercialization, Training and Utility Advisor for Albania, July 29, 2003. Available at http://www.coreintl.com/core_library/USAIDSupportCommTrainingUtilityAdvisorAlbania.pdf (accessed on July 16, 2009). Also discussed in Albania-EU Energy Efficiency Centre, Energy in Albania Newsletter, June 2001. Available at http://www.eec.org.al/newsletter%2015.pdf (accessed on July 16, 2009), p. 3. 51 PAD, p. 11. 52 PAD, p. 11. 53 CAS 2006, pp. 4-5. 54 Ec...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Compliance Report: 38-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID and the Ford Foundation. He has been project director of over thirty research projects and author or co-author of numerous technical and research papers on rural development, natural resources and environmental management. Currently, he serves in several capacities: chairman of the Board of Directors of the MERI, member of National Research Council for economics, and a director of the International Global Environment Strategy (IGES) based in Japan. Mr. Onchan was appointed as eminent perso...

Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Compliance Report: 31-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID and the Ford Foundation. He has been project director of over thirty research projects and author or co-author of numerous technical and research papers on rural development, natural resources and environmental management. Currently, he serves in several capacities: chairman of the Board of Directors of the MERI, member of National Research Council for economics, and a director of the International Global Environment Strategy (IGES) based in Japan. Mr. Onchan was appointed as eminent perso...

Complaint > Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project

Compliance Report: 36-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID and the Ford Foundation. He has been project director of over thirty research projects and author or co-author of numerous technical and research papers on rural development, natural resources and environmental management. Currently, he serves in several capacities: chairman of the Board of Directors of the MERI, member of National Research Council for economics, and a director of the International Global Environment Strategy (IGES) based in Japan. Mr. Onchan was appointed as eminent perso...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Compliance Report: 34-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID and the Ford 190 Foundation. He has been project director of over thirty research projects and author or co- author of numerous technical and research papers on rural development, natural resources and environmental management. Currently, he serves in several capacities: chairman of the Board of Directors of the MERI, member of National Research Council for economics, and a director of the Internat...

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

Compliance Report: 26-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID and the Ford Foundation. He has been Project Director of over thirty research projects and author or co-author of numerous technical and research papers on rural development, natural resources and environmental management. Currently, he serves in several capacities: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the MERI, Chairman of the Committee on the Preparation of State of the Environment Report for Thailand, member of National Research Council for economics, and a Director of the Internationa...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Compliance Report: 65-Investigation Report (English)

...USAID)-funded ESIA Guides for Thermal and Hydroelectric Power Projects for member countries of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). His education was in environmental engineering sciences at the University of Florida, where he completed the Master of Science in Environmental Engineering. Jacob W. Kijne (Netherlands) is the former Director for Research of the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka. Before this he worked for four years, heading the Institute‘s program, in Pakista...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Compliance Report: 38-Informe de Investigación (Español)

...USAID y la Fundación Ford. Se ha desempeñado como Director de más de treinta proyectos de investigación y es autor y coautor de gran cantidad de trabajos técnicos y de investigación sobre desarrollo rural, recursos naturales y gestión ambiental. Actualmente cumple diversos roles: Presidente del Directorio del MERI, miembro del Consejo Nacional de Investigación de economía, y Director del International Global Environment Strategy (IGES) con sede en Japón. El Sr. Onchan fue designado persona emine...

Complaint > Land Administration Project (First Request)

Compliance Report: 53-Informe de Investigación (Español)

...USAID, la Reserva Internacional de Biosfera de Bosawas, la Biosfera Maya, el control Q'eqchi' de las Cuevas de Candelaria y el corredor biológico entre Chisec y el Parque Nacional Laguna Lachuá en Guatemala. Actualmente trabaja como consultor para varias organizaciones internacionales de conservación y participa en proyectos de cartografía con los pueblos Waorani de Ecuador y Cofán de Colombia. 121