Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Other: Guidance Note on Labor Influx

...labor may also lead to an increase in exploitative sexual relationships and human trafficking whereby women and girls are forced into sex work (see also Box 3 below). • Child labor and school dropout. Increased opportunities for the host community to sell goods and services to the incoming workers can lead to child labor to produce and deliver these goods and services, which in turn can lead to enhanced school dropout. • Local inflation of prices: A si...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...children. This has also resulted into marriage breakages. We however pity the girl Child wherever 3/32 such developments shall be effected and sympathize with those where such have been implemented. 7. Increased school dropout and absenteeism and Child labor. Due to increased population there is petty business emerging along the road. School children drop out or are frequently absent due to such activities. The children are a...

Complaint > Wilmar Group-01/West Kalimantan

Monitoring: English

...child labor or forced labor in the primary supply chain, the client will identify those risks consistent with paragraphs 21 and 22 above. If child labor or forced labor cases are identified, the client will take appropriate steps to remedy them. The client will monitor its primary supply chain on an ongoing basis in order to identify any significant changes in its supply chain and if new risks or incidents of child and/or forced labor are identified, the client will take appropriate steps to rem...

Complaint > Tata Tea-01/CAO Vice President Request

Monitoring: CAO Monitoring Report of IFC regarding Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited (APPL), India - January 2019

...Child labor (Finding 4.3.4) Summary of CAO Investigation Findings Child labor is known to be prevalent in India’s agricultural sector, including on tea plantations. In this context, CAO finds that IFC’s pre-investment due diligence of the risk of child labor on its client’s plantations was inadequate. Similarly, since receipt of the CAO complaint, IFC has not taken adequate measures to assure itself that the client currently complies with its child labor requirements. IFC Response and Analysis: ...

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

Management Action Plan: Investigation Plan

...Labor Issues, Occupational and Road Safety a. Were there instances of irregular labor practices by the contractor? If so, were remedial actions taken? b. Were minors employed by the Project? Was the risk of child labor properly assessed? Did the Project include preventive and mitigation measures? If so, were they implemented? c. Were there occupational and/or road accidents leading to injuries or fatalities? If so, did th...

Complaint > Tata Tea-01/CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Review: English

...children on the client’s tea estates; Child labor is known to be prevalent in India’s agricultural sector, including on tea plantations. In this context, CAO finds that IFC’s pre-investment due diligence of the risk of child labor on its client’s plantations was inadequate. Similarly, since receipt of the CAO complaint, IFC has not taken adequate measures to assure itself that the client currently complies with its child labor requirements. e. Risks related to the client’s use of pest...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Other: Press Release

...children and communities, including many cases of child sexual abuse and teenage pregnancies caused by road workers, an increased presence of sex workers, the spread of HIV/AIDS, sexual harassment of female employees, inadequate resettlement practices, a lack of road safety, and negative construction impacts. The Inspection Panel confirmed the claims, and identified a substantial number of instances of the Bank not complying with its own policies and procedures. The Panel found that Bank managem...

Complaint > AD Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh

Timeline: Commitments Register, February 2008

...laborers first, and then to been given priority in award of contracts in all infrastructure Pahari/Nepali laborers.ee works and that more than 3000 contracts have been awarded locally. Restriction on deployment of child AD Hydro STATUS: ONGOING labor.y ...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-04/Bujagali

Appraisal: Appraisal of IFC investment in Bujagali Energy (IFC Project #24408) and MIGA guarantee of World Power Holdings (MIGA Project #6732), Uganda, (CAO Complaints 04 and 06), April 8, 2015

...child labor, etc.) and requires the company to comply with national laws, including the Employment Act, 2006 (Act No. 6). The LFMP also requires contractor and subcontractor to abide by similar requirements. The Employment Act allows workers to file a complaint with a labor officer (Commissioner or a District Labor officer) in cases when an employer neglects or refuses to fulfill the terms of a contract of employment. A labor officer may institute civil or criminal proceedings before the Industr...

Complaint > Bujagali Energy-06/Bujagali

Appraisal: Appraisal of IFC investment in Bujagali Energy (IFC Project #24408) and MIGA guarantee of World Power Holdings (MIGA Project #6732), Uganda, (CAO Complaints 04 and 06), April 8, 2015

...child labor, etc.) and requires the company to comply with national laws, including the Employment Act, 2006 (Act No. 6). The LFMP also requires contractor and subcontractor to abide by similar requirements. The Employment Act allows workers to file a complaint with a labor officer (Commissioner or a District Labor officer) in cases when an employer neglects or refuses to fulfill the terms of a contract of employment. A labor officer may institute civil or criminal proceedings before the Industr...

Complaint > Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya

Filing: Letter of complaint - Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya - April 2018

...child seeking admission on any ground, including ethnicity, gender, sex, religion, race, colour or social origin, age, disability, language or culture.” The complainants assert that BIA’s activities do not respect children’s right to education without discrimination and that they violate the above-mentioned standards. This statement is true especially for the most marginalized children including children of families living in poverty and children with disabilities. Through its operations, BIA in...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project 2

Filing: Request for compliance review [PDF](attachments are available upon request from Chair, CRP at crp@adb.org)

...children have stopped going to school. Both younger and older children are affected, but while there is a primary school nearby, there is no secondary school so teenage children are more likely to have dropped out. Parents reported noticing a regression in children’s grades or skills, including reading. In some cases children are working to supplement household income instead of attending school. ...

Complaint > Maple Energy-01/Nuevo Sucre and Canaan

Filing: English

...labor, which consists of any work or service not voluntarily performed that is extracted from an individual under threat of force or penalty. This covers any kind of involuntary or compulsory labor…” The definition of forced labor in the IFC Guidance Note includes work coerced from a person under threat of force or penalty, not just extracted. An example of forced labor contract arrangements in the Guidance Note includes “limitations on freedom of movement” as was the case here. G46-G50. ...

Complaint > Accelerating Infrastructure Investment Facility in India - Tranche 1

Filing: Complaint

...Labor Standards, no explicit ratification is needed for them to be part of the legislative framework of a country. The Core Labor Standards consist of (a) freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining, (b) the abolition of all forms of forced or compulsory labor, (c) the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation, and (d) the elimination of child labor. All Asian and Pacific DMCs,6by virtue of...

Complaint > AD Hydro Power Limited-01/Himachal Pradesh

Agreement: Commitments Register, December 2007

...laborers’ accommodations, facilities. All the facilities are being monitored by the social cell laborers’ fuel use, and health as per schedule prepared by ADHPL based on the guidelines by management issues.t IFC. Labor camps will be set up AD Hydro and STATUS: ONGOING catering to all migrant labor force. subcontractors Separate labour...

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

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report(English)

...Child Labor. Management stated it takes the allegations of child labor very seriously, but after reviewing the Contractor’s labor registry and interviewing workers and community members, it was unable to confirm any case of child labor employed by the Project. 26. Indigenous Peoples. Management explained it “could not ascertain adverse impacts from the Project on Indigenous Peoples.”28 27. Livelihoods impacts. Management noted that apart from the Requesters, other quarry owners and...

Complaint > Tata Tea-01/CAO Vice President Request

Monitoring: CAO Communique - APPL, January 28, 2019

...child labor, use of pesticides, security, economic displacement, project impacts on Indigenous Peoples, and consultation around an employee share purchase program. In response to CAO’s investigation, IFC noted that APPL was implementing an action plan to address shortcomings and legacy issues in areas such as human health, worker health and safety, housing, and sanitation infrastructure. In addition, IFC committed to commission a third-party to undertake an annual audit and worker perception sur...

Complaint > Avianca-01/Bogota

Monitoring: Monitoring and Closing Report, Avianca-01, May 2017

...laboration with its contracted consultants, IFC reported that it has developed several guidance notes on various labor topics, including internal guidance for IFC staff related to: grievance mechanisms, addressing child and forced labor in the supply chain of retailers, addressing sexual harassment, Turkey and Egypt labor country profiles, freedom of association in Mexico and Central America, freedom of association in EMENA, retrenchment in EMENA and overtime manage...

Complaint > Food and Agriculture Health and Quality Management Program (CCLIP)

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...children are poisoned by lower amounts of pesticides than adults. Because of their immature development, they are more susceptible than adults to the effects of poison. Children’s livers and other organs often do not have the capacity to break down certain pesticides. Their immune systems are not fully developed, which heightens the risk of acquiring diseases. Children living in the countryside are in contact with the pesticides used in the agricultural environment that surrounds them; therefore...

Complaint > Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited-01/Leon and Chinandega

Agreement: English

...child's age and parents’ occupations; see Appendix 1). We selected all students who met eligibility criteria based on the parental questionnaire. Study staff then asked the children to assent to participate. Those children who signed the assent form were then asked to complete a questionnaire (see Appendix 2), which was reviewed to assess final eligibility (student’s past work history and prior participation in sports or vigorous exercise on that day). Current menstruation status was obtained ve...