Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Response: 89-Management Response and Addendum (English)

...child labor as one of the major social issues during its implementation support missions and has accordingly focused on Borrower compliance with the child labor legal covenant. Each Bank implementation support mission has discussed the issue of child labor and the need to adhere to national child labor laws with the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Restructuring Agency (RRA), and PFIs. Each implementation support mission monitors Borrower and PFI compliance with their obligation to check for child...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Response

...child labor and requires that “Children below 18 years should not be recruited.” Labor law in Uganda does not allow children below 12 years to be employed. Children under the age of 14 can be employed in light work under the supervision of an adult, provided the work does not interfere with the child’s education. However, no person under 18 years can be employed in work that is harmful to health, dangerous or unsuitable. The Children’s Act (Cap 59 Sect. 8) states that no child shall be employed ...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Report and Recommendation

...child protection. 33. The 2011 ESIS and appraisal documents lacked required analysis of risks to women and children caused by labor influx, in particular those risks related to sex with minors, teenage pregnancies, sexual harassment, child labor, and school dropouts. Management’s approach failed to meet the standards of systematic or holistic assessment of risks which aims, among other objectives, to identify adequate risk management measures for affected communities. 10. Mitigation Measures...

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

Management Response: Management Response(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 > Mining Infrastructure Investment Support and Mining Infrastructure Support - Additional Financing

Management Response: Management Response

...labor influx 50. Management takes risks related to labor influx very seriously, particularly in relation to the safety and security of girls and women. While such risks are not related to the Project, which is only providing technical assistance, the CIA will consider labor influx issues, including the types of concerns that have been raised by the Requesters. 51. Although the Baganuur power plant is not supported by MINIS, Management has nevertheless discussed with the GoM at the mini...

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

Management Response: Management Response

...labor influx 50. Management takes risks related to labor influx very seriously, particularly in relation to the safety and security of girls and women. While such risks are not related to the Project, which is only providing technical assistance, the CIA will consider labor influx issues, including the types of concerns that have been raised by the Requesters. 51. Although the Baganuur power plant is not supported by MINIS, Management has nevertheless discussed with the GoM at the mini...

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

Management Response: 26-Management Response (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 > Education Improvement Project

Management Response: 94 - Management Response (English)

...Children’s Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development iv EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Projects 1. The Education Improvement Project (EIP). The EIP consists of a loan of US$15 million from IBRD and a credit of US$15 million from IDA. The objectives of the EIP are to improve school readiness of children entering primary education, improve physical conditions and the availability of educational resources in upper secon...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Management Response: 78-Management Response (English)

...labor market flexibility should be sustained and labor taxes kept low to promote labor demand, active labor market programs need to be strengthened to facilitate the transition to work. Employment rigidity is among the lowest in the region and labor taxes are low. Kosovo faces the challenge of maintaining these favorable conditions in the face of pressures to increase worker protection and social services. It has done so successfully, for example, by passing a health insurance law that transform...

Complaint > Electricity Expansion Project

Management Response: Management Response

...Children dropping out of school Relocation ended formally on September 2, during the week when the third school term was about to begin. As part of the follow-up mission on November 19, 2014, the Bank team sought to understand how the relocation process had impacted school children, both primary and secondary: i) KenGen informed the mission that since relocation happened just...

Complaint > Institutional Reform Development Policy Financing

Management Response: 57-Management Response Annexes 2 to 8

...Child Labor --,Mada Establishment --,Yemen Organization for H u m a n Rights --,Sisters Forum Media --,--,Al-Thawra --,--,Sep 21Newspaper --,--,Al-Sharg A l - A w u t Newspaper p d d l e East) --,Rait_yNews Donor Community --,--,National Democratic I n s t i t u t e --,--,G T Z - C O C A Project --,GTZ --,D C M - German Embassy --,French Embassy --,French Embassy --,EI(N --,--,NDI --,--,GTZ Project Institutional Capacity Development Project/ MoPIC --,US AID --,U S AID --,--,UNDP --,UNDP --,DFID ...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, Management of the Petroleum Economy Project, and Petroleum Sector Management Capacity Building Project

Management Response: 22-Management Response (English)

...laboration with the Government of Chad. EEPCI and TOTCO will take primary responsibility for ensuring that contractors, workers and work sites comply with EMP provisions. The compensation, resettlement, oil spill contingency and decommissioning plans will be implemented by EEPCI and TOTCO in collaboration with the Government. EEPCI, TOTCO, and the Government of Chad will also monitor and evaluate the EMP’s implementation in Chad. In addition, the Government of Chad is responsible for implementin...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Response: 89-Ответ руководства Банка (на русском)

...Children Cotton A group of civil society activists has called for immediate boycott of Uzbek cotton produced by forced child labour. ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40679 - 64k - Cached - Similar pages Узбекистан: призыв к бойкотированию хлопка, собранного с помощью рабского труда детей Группа активистов гражданского общества призвала к немедленному бойкоту узбекского хлопка, собранного с помощью принудительного труда детей. 66 ...

Complaint > Protection of Basic Services Program Phase II Additional Financing and Promoting Basic Services Phase III Project

Management Response: 82-Management Response (English)

...Children and Women Devel- opment Association; the Jeru- salem Children and Communi- ty Development Organization, and IFPRI. October 17-21, 2011 Water/WaSH spending and results, Oromia Region – World Bank, Diagnosis of progress and challenges facing water/ WaSH ...