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 > 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 > Amaggi Expansion-01/IFC Executive Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...child labor; ƒ have pest management practices that contravened IFC’s pest management policy (OP4.09 Pest Management); ƒ finance farms with land conflicts; ƒ adversely affect land belonging to indigenous peoples; and ƒ adversely affect conservation units (which includes avoiding designated protected areas and respecting natural habitat conversion restrictions in Brazilian law). Additionally, farmers had to provide access to Amaggi for auditing purposes. IFC documents reviewed indi...

Complaint > GEORGIA - Jvari-Khorga Interconnection

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...labor’ risks arising in the construction industry: • Failure to monitor contractors’ and subcontractors’ compliance with and enforcement of labor laws; • Low awareness of labor laws among contractors and subcontractors as minimum working conditions are typically absent from the subcontracting process; • Use of migrant/temporary labor subject to working conditions below minimum standards established by law; and ...

Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Compliance Report: 23-Annexes to Investigation Report (English)

...labor gangs. These supervisors are paid a daily wage of Rs 50 by the truck owners. Under this system, trucks to be loaded are allocated on rotation to both PAP and non-PAP labor gangs. 10% of all trucks are reserved for PAPs, and the PAP labor gangs participate in the allocation of the balance on equal terms with non-PAP labor gangs. A labor gang earns Rs 1,400 per truck (about Rs 90 per laborer). Normally a labor gang will get to load only one truck in a day. This is a year round activity, and ...

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 > Southeast Europe Equity Fund II

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...child labour, forced labour and discriminatory practices) and community issues, such as cultural property, involuntary resettlement, and impacts on indigenous peoples.” 39. In its opening Mission Statement, OPIC’s Environmental Handbook of 2004 (the relevant reference at the time of signing the Partnership Agreement) states “OPIC will assure that the projects it supports are consistent with sound environmental and worker rights standards. In conducting...

Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Compliance Report: 23-Investigation Report (English)

...labor opportunities, OD 4.30 provides that “[f]or land-based resettlement, the new site’s ... locational advantages should be at least equivalent to those of the old site.” The Requesters claim that Pindra is further away from causal labor opportunities. Management only mentions the labor opportunities for Pindra resettlers at the coal-loading dump, not opportunities for causal labor or informal labor at the mine site, which is about three km. This lack of opportunity appears...

Complaint > Dinant-01/CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...labor overtime issues and status of completion of Labor Audit by labor consultants. September 2012 Environmental Specialist documents advance to the ESAP. November 2012 Further discussion with Dinant and consultants, to develop a comprehensive approach and build management capacity for Dinant to manage risks (political, soc...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Compliance Report: Final Report in English and in Gujarati [PDF]

...labor colony NAAQS=National Ambient Air Quality Standards; PM-10=(respirable) particulate matter less than or equal to 10 microns; PPAH=Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook; SPM= suspended particulate matter; WB=World Bank. Note: Air quality monitoring was conducted at 7 nearby villages and CGPL’s main gate, hostel and labor colony during January 2013-March 2013. Source: Quarterly Environmental & Social Performance Report-Tata Ultra Mega Coal Fired Power Plant, Mundra, Period: January to ...

Complaint > Lydian Intl3-01/Gndevaz & Jermuk

Compliance Report: English

...Labor influx ESIA considers Negative change in people’s view of Jermuk as a Identified impacts of worker spa town due to labor influx noted as having accommodation on potential “long-term effects in terms of number of local communities, visitors arriving in the town and on overall including Jermuk. economic activity and opportunities for tourist (Chapter 6.21) sector grow...

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 > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Compliance Report: 62-Investigation Report (English)

...labor profiles for Village Oil Palm and LSS blocks were reported for Hoskins, Oro, and Bialla and show higher labor inputs at Hoskins.338 The PAD labor assumptions (two hectare) are far below all two-hectare models reported in ADS 2001.339 Furthermore, the OPIC analysis of the Credit Component and Financial Analysis, prepared for the SADP, features a labor profile (Annex Table 1) that estimates labor requirements for one hectare of oil palm in years 4-23 w...

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 > IPP4 Al-Manakher Power Project

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...laboratory-developed methods. It is the single most important standard for calibration and testing laboratories around the world. Laboratories that are accredited to this international standard have demonstrated that they are technically competent and able to produce precise and accurate test and/or calibration data. See www.iso.org/iso/home/standards. 34 84. The involvement ...

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 > Land Administration Project

Compliance Report: 38-Investigation Report (English)

...Labor Organization INA Instituto Nacional Agrario (National Agrarian Institute) IP Instituto de Propiedad (Property Institute) IPDP Indigenous Peoples Development Plan NGO Non Governmental Organization OD Operational Directive ODECO Organización de Desarrollo Étnico Comunitario OFRANEH Organización Fraternal Negra de Honduras OP Operational Policy PAAR Rural Land Management Project (Proyecto de Administración de ...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Compliance Report: 60-Investigation Report (English)

...laboration with the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) Ballard, B and Runsinarith, P. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, August 2007, page 49. 145 Cambodia Land Titling Program: Baseline Survey Project Final Report: Rural Phase 1 (Draft) Cambodia Development Resource Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC), Ballard, B. and Sovannarith, S. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 2004, pages ix-x. 146 Legal Aid of C...