Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report

...child labor issues. 339. The Bank’s Aide-Mémoire and Back-to-Office Reports lacked any mention of child labor issues until January 2015. The Supervising Engineer’s reports were also silent on this matter until April 2015, when the report mentioned that the community refuted child labor was taking place. It was only in May 2015 that the Engineer acknowledged during meetings with the Kitonzi and Kyabyoma communities “it was reported that the issues were mostly child labour and child work 339 E...

Complaint > El Dorado International Airport

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...child labor in its agricultural operations. In this example, it is inconceivable that, if the Bank is considering financing Party B, the Bank and Party B would be able to ignore and distance themselves from the potential risks associated with the use of child labor by the agricultural business and claim that these risks are beyond the scope of OP-703. The Bank-financed expansion supports the entire agricultural business, and the risk that child labor will be used increases as a result of such ex...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project 2

Compliance Report: CRP’s Final Report in English, in Khmer [PDF] (Management's Response and Requester's Response to the CRP's Draft Report are attached)

...children. More than likely, this has affected his ability to support the family. The CRP visited this home and found it to be in poor condition compared with the other houses at the resettlement site. The family has other children, who are equally poorly off. The loss of these two children represents, among others, a loss of future income and support for this family. 112. The child in Poipet who died on the way home from school was in a comparable situation. There was a longer distance between t...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Compliance Report: 65-Investigation Report (English)

...laborers, land The Panel‘s assessment is that the issue of impacts of the Medupi Power Plant on development and local impacts the local municipality and public services for which the Municipality is responsible is serious, and potentially detrimental to the rights and interests of the Requesters. Claim: concerns about social and The Panel finds that the EIA accepted by Management did not adequately identify environmental effects of labor ...

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

Compliance Report: 27-Investigation Report (English)

...children changed. The teachers said the changes have been enormous. The lifestyle of the children was altered suddenly. Money that never was around was now coming into the community and the hands of their parents. Unlike before, the children got also some money and they became aware of the power of money, and started to realize that their parents were poor people, something they had never thought about before. As a result the children for the first time started to lose respect for their parents ...

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

Compliance Report: 26-Investigation Report (English)

...children were left out of a household’s census even though the child’s baptismal certificate showed that he/she was part of the household at the time of the 1990 census. 234. The Panel brought the examples of persons excluded from the census to the attention of EBY during its January 2003 visit to the project area. EBY acknowledged that, as with censuses in any country, no census is perfect, but stated that there is a procedure for someone missed in the...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Compliance Report: 16-Investigation Report (English)

...children? Yes 65 No 15 If yes, are they in school? A. In school 57 B. Not in school 8 40. Reasons for school-age children not being in school: A. Children do not want to go to school [0] B. Children help parents with the farm work 3 C. School too ...

Complaint > Program to Improve Highway Corridors in Paraguay

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...children the Aché language. A further step to highlight the importance of their language has been a bilingual (Aché-Spanish) publication to document Aché history and culture which was prepared by the Aché themselves supported by the Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (FODEC) and the German embassy in Asunción. On the other hand, the Aché look to the future as full members of Paraguayan society. They are concerned about education and wish to see some of their children as doctors and lawyers...

Complaint > Santa Fe Road Infrastructure Project and Provincial Road Infrastructure Project, 3rd Request

Compliance Report: 51-Investigation Report (English)

...child nutrition between Indian and multinational corporations, Indian NGOs, UNICEF and the State Government of Maharashtra. On the Mexico-U.S border he led a team that built a partnership of community foundations committed to strengthening cross border collaboration in the field of community development. He also created a global Senior Fellows Program to enhance leadership skills in the development foundation sector. Dr Winder has served as an advisor to Oxfam UK, the Worldwide Initiative for Gr...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Compliance Report: 34-Investigation Report (English)

...laborers who would be directly affected by any changes in the distribution of agricultural resources and in agricultural production, would have been appropriate not just as sharecroppers or laborers but also as members of distinct cultural and ethnic groups who are especially vulnerable and poor. 413. In this context, the Panel finds that Management did not initiate a process to determine whether the NDP Project would affect any group of people which ...