Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: First Management Progress Report

...child protection, and occupational health and safety. 37. Safeguard portfolio reviews of Bank-financed projects in Uganda, with specific focus on child labor/abuse: The Bank has completed a general review of environmental and social safeguards performance in all IDA-supported projects within the Uganda portfolio, and a complementary review with a specific focus on the risks of sexual abuse involving minors, and child labor. The recommendations of both reviews have been made public through th...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Lessons Learned and Agenda for Action

...children. Projects are being implemented in a country context that poses serious risks for children overall; x Weak identification and mitigation of risks. Review of project documents showed weak identification of potential risks to children during project preparation, resulting in very weak preventive measures; x No reported instances of child abuse (sexual abuse, child labor, etc.) were encountered in connection with any of the projects reviewed. The...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Third Management Progress Report

...Labor and Social Development (MGLSD) over a period of two years, from January 25, 2017, to January 11, 2019. The SCOPE project aimed to: (a) enhance access to response and prevention services for child survivors of sexual violence and those at risk; and (b) strengthen the capacity of the MGLSD and district authorities to coordinate, monitor and ensure the quality of services for child survivors of sexual violence. MGLSD engaged four implementing NGOs (BRAC, Joy for Children, International Justic...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Investigation Plan

...Child labor. The Requesters claim an increase in informal businesses along the road construction, which has attracted children to work as vendors and car washers and led to a rise in school dropouts. They also allege that children were employed in the construction of the road. The Panel’s investigation will include an analysis of the following questions: i. Were children employed by the Project? Was the risk of child labor properly assessed by the B...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Second Management Progress Report

...child labor/abuse 37. The Bank completed a general review of environmental and social safeguards performance in all IDA-supported projects within the Uganda portfolio, and a complementary review with a specific focus on the risks of sexual abuse involving minors, and child labor. The recommendations of both reviews have been made public through the “Uganda TSDP AF – Lessons Learned and Agenda for Action Report” and include proposals for strengthening Borrower capacity and improving safeguar...