Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Management Response: 16-Management Response (English)

...compensation areas. Response: Creation of environmental offsets and compensation areas is one of a series of alternative “Appropriate conservation and mitigation measures…” defined in Annex A of OP 4.04 (paragraph e). The measures selected “… depend on the ecological characteristics of the Management Response - Page 73 given site…” The creation of offsets or compensation areas is not appropriate to the proposed ...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Eligibility: 16-Eligibility Report (English)

...compensation areas. Response: Creation of environmental offsets and compensation areas is one of a series of alternative “Appropriate conservation and mitigation measures…” defined in Annex A of OP 4.04 (paragraph e). The measures selected “… depend on the ecological characteristics of the Management Response - Page 77 given site…” The creation of offsets or compensation areas is not appropriate to the proposed ...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Eligibility: 16-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...cash compensation, and that income restoration is the objective of the RAP. Management believes the RAP provides substantial forms of assistance that, taken together, will allow affected persons to improve, or at least restore, both incomes and living standards. It should be noted that losses are relatively slight: partial loss of pastureland for 63 herder households, loss of farmland in a defunct irrigation scheme for 248 households, and partially disrupted migration patterns for 289 herder hou...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Filing: 16-Request for Inspection (English)

...compensation areas to account for these losses, which the EIA claims are "significant", nor are other adequate mitigation measures suggested. It should be noted that 100% of those surveyed in the move- in area expressed concerns about the "cutting of vegetation, which will destroy the ecological environment and the wild animal and plant resources."(EIA para 7.22, page 65) Such a universal concern should have prompted project alternatives to be considered, or mitigation and ecological compensatio...