Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89-Eligibility Report and Recommendation (English)

...child labor. 83. The SA contains some description of the issue of child labor, but the Panel considers that this assessment may raise important issues of policy compliance. The SA includes one paragraph on child labor. It notes that the recent work of UNICEF and the SA showed the lack of the worst forms of child labor, but then adds that the labor of 12-18 year olds is used when districts/provinces cannot fulfill their plan of cotton picking. It concludes ...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89 - Final Eligibility Report (English)

...child labor is practiced, the Project contributes to "the Government's policy of organized forced and child labor." The Requesters argue that all farms in Uzbekistan are tied to the State cotton harvesting system and its reliance on forced and child labor. They claim that a direct harm from the perpetuation of the system of forced and child labor is the strain on public services (including essential medical care and education). They also claim that systemic use of forced labor hinders the qualit...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...Child labor and school dropouts a) 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. They allege that one child was employed in the construction of the road but when the school became aware of this, the child was fired and given no support to go back to school. b) School dropouts. The Requesters claim an increase in school dropouts due to teenage pregnancies and child labor. They claim...

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

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation(English)

...Child Labor 45. The Bank takes child labor issues very seriously and has a clear position to help reduce harmful child labor through its ongoing poverty reduction efforts. Management identified that the Contractor determines its workers’ age through an ID check before they are hired. During the September mission, the Bank supported the Borrower’s efforts to review the Contractor’s labor registry, interview members and leaders of the community, and speak with a sample of children living in n...

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

Eligibility: Issuance of Eligibility Memorandum

...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 > Mining Infrastructure Investment Support and Mining Infrastructure Support - Additional Financing

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...labor influx. Management in its Response states that it takes risks related to labor influx on the safety and security of women and girls very seriously. Management argues that labor influx is not related to the Project, since MINIS only provides technical assistance. While the TPP is not supported by MINIS, Management has discussed with the Government of Mongolia concerns about the social impacts of a large labor influx during construction. 18 Furthermore, according to Management, the CIA will ...

Complaint > Mining Infrastructure Investment Support and Mining Infrastructure Support - Additional Financing

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...labor influx. Management in its Response states that it takes risks related to labor influx on the safety and security of women and girls very seriously. Management argues that labor influx is not related to the Project, since MINIS only provides technical assistance. While the TPP is not supported by MINIS, Management has discussed with the Government of Mongolia concerns about the social impacts of a large labor influx during construction. 18 Furthermore, according to Management, the CIA will ...

Complaint > VEIL II-01/ Ratanakiri Province

Eligibility: English

...child labor. The complaint further alleges non-compliance with IFC policies and procedures and with Cambodian laws. The Complainants requested that CAO keep their identities confidential. 3. ASSESSMENT SUMMARY The purpose of this CAO assessment is to clarify the issues and concerns raised by the Complainants, to gather information on how other stakeholders see the situation, and to determine whether the Complainants and HAGL would like to pursue a voluntary dispute resolution process under the a...

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

Eligibility: English

...labor union; • Labour conditions, including concerns of child labour, handling of chemicals, respiratory issues, and access to water and basic hygiene facilities; and • Offsite environmental effects, including pesticide run-off to farms and impacts to indigenous Sutiaba lands, water competition and water contamination, and air pollution and associated respiratory problems as a result of sugarcane burning. The complainants’ con...

Complaint > Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya

Eligibility: CAO Assessment Report - Bridge-01/Kenya - March 2019 - English

...children with disabilities, Bridge expressed that their schools have integrated children living with disabilities and that their advocacy work on this issue has been featured in several regional and national media outlets. Bridge highlighted that, like many other schools, it faces many challenges in serving children with disabilities. However, they said the successes achieved by children with disabilities at Bridge is a demonstration of Bridge’s efforts to ensure that children living with disabi...

Complaint > Southeast Europe Equity Fund II

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report for CR

...labor law and best practice as committed in ESP2008 art 9 and art 13: 10. The EBRD will actively seek, through its investments, to contribute to the effective implementation of relevant principles and rules of international law related to environment, labor, corporate responsibility and public access to environmental information. These principles and rules are set forth in instruments such as treaties, conventions and multilateral, regional or bilateral agreements, as well as in relevant non-bin...

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

Eligibility: Management Report and Recommendation(English)

...child labor workers on RN2 have work contracts. A copy of their ID has been archived. in the Project. Contracts were amended twice to harmonize them with national labor laws. Contracts were cleared by the relevant labor authorities. Management acknowledged issues While this is not covered under Bank policies, some workers were underpaid as related to workers’ health a result of an unfavorable exchange rate. Specifically, 499 work...

Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Eligibility: 23-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...labor crews participate in the allocation of the balance on equal terms with non-PAP labor crews. A labor crew earns Rs 1,400 per truck (about Rs 90 per laborer). This is a year round activity though the number of trucks to be loaded varies. PAPs have also...

Complaint > Ecodevelopment Project

Eligibility: 11-Eligibility Report (English)

...children of mainstream societies. That this is alien to the Adivasi child as it does not incorporate either the Adivasi value systems or language is brushed aside by the State. Till the 60s even these teaching institutions were located based on the needs of village societies. This meant that the Adivasi child had a narrow access to the education facilities made available. In these schools, the Adivasi child suffered racial discrimination and humiliation from children of the village societies. Ma...

Complaint > Yanacocha-02/Cajamarca

Eligibility: Independent Investigation into the Mercury Spill of June 2, 2000 in the Vicinity of San Juan, Choropampa and Magdalena, Peru - June 2000

...Laboratory Analysis of Human Samples for Mercury Blood and urine samples from the first group of patients treated for mercury intoxication were sent to the CICOTOX laboratory in Lima. Because results took 15-20 days, a CICOTOX laboratory was established at RHC using equipment donated by Minera Yanacocha to measure total mercury in human samples. The new laboratory at RHC was established and staffed by Dr. Rosalia Anaya Pajuelo and Dr. Edgar Valentin from the National University of San Marcos. Th...

Complaint > Yanacocha-03/Cajamarca

Eligibility: Independent Investigation into the Mercury Spill of June 2, 2000 in the Vicinity of San Juan, Choropampa and Magdalena, Peru - June 2000

...Laboratory Analysis of Human Samples for Mercury Blood and urine samples from the first group of patients treated for mercury intoxication were sent to the CICOTOX laboratory in Lima. Because results took 15-20 days, a CICOTOX laboratory was established at RHC using equipment donated by Minera Yanacocha to measure total mercury in human samples. The new laboratory at RHC was established and staffed by Dr. Rosalia Anaya Pajuelo and Dr. Edgar Valentin from the National University of San Marcos. Th...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89-Отчет и рекомендации Инспекционного совета (на русском)

...Child labor: issues and directions for the World Bank”, Peter Fallon and Zafiris Tzannatos, 1998, Executive Summary, pp. vi-viii. 26 Неофициальный перевод с английского между фермерами и Финансовыми организациями, будет расширено, и в него будет также включено условие, касающееся принудительного труда взр...

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

Eligibility: 26-Eligibility Report (English)

...child care facilities, community centers, child/youth development, among others. While the Project is demand-based and all eligible populations can access the project, geographic targeting of eligible communities will be used to identify priority areas for further institutional and organizational development assistance to ensure that vulnerable non-organized groups and municipalities with scarce resources have a fair opportunity to access project resources. Potential beneficiaries will be s...

Complaint > Jute Sector Adjustment Credit Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation

...child care, food security, revenue tmnsfer, short-term credit, labor mchange and other basic sources of socio-economic support are dissolved Destruction of the social support system would inevitably bring disaster in the lives of the people. Agriculture, household based craR activities are being run on the basis of the kinshq relation. Considering the notion of dependency of the people, through which their survival mechanism get impetus, we can easily draw conclusion that the destruction of Whq ...

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

Eligibility: 27-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...labor relations and HIV/AIDS. Management’s response provided detaile d discussion of cumulative impacts, institutional development, protected areas, the Bakola/Bagyeli people, compensation payments and processes, the Bank’s intensified supervision of the Pipeline Project and labor relations. The full response is available at www.inspectionpanel.org. In its Report to the Board, the Panel found the Request eligible and recommended that the Executive Directors authorize an investigation. The invest...