Complaint > CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 1

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

...REQUEST FOR COMPLIANCE REVIEW 8. The request for compliance review was submitted to the Secretary of the CRP on 23 May 2011 by five individuals, who designated as their representative the Central Asia and Caucasus Coordinator of the ADB NGO Forum (Appendix 1). The requesters sought to keep their identities confidential, as provided in para. 44 of the Accountability Mechanism policy. The request for compliance review was made during the consultation phase, in accordance with the policy. 5 ...

Complaint > Dinant-01/CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...request from the President of the World Bank Group, senior management of IFC or MIGA or the CAO Vice President. A compliance process must remain within the scope of the original complaint or request. CAO Compliance auditing focuses on IFC and MIGA, and how IFC/MIGA assured itself of project environmental and social (E&S) performance. The purpose of a CAO audit is to ensure compliance with policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, and conditions for IFC/MIGA involvement, and thereby improve E&...

Complaint > Ficohsa-01/ CAO Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...President. The President has no editorial input as to the content of the compliance Investigation Report, but may take the opportunity to discuss the investigation findings with CAO. Once the President is satisfied with the response by IFC/MIGA senior management, the President will provide clearance for the Investigation Report and the response. The President retains discretion over clearance. After clearance, CAO will disclose the Investigation Report and the IFC/MIGA response to the Board. CAO...

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

Compliance Report: English

...request from the EVP2 of the IFC, for the CAO to audit IFC’s environmental categorization3 of the Amaggi Expansion Project in Brazil (IFC Investment number 22561). Annex 1 is a copy of the EVP’s request. The CAO is the independent recourse mechanism for the IFC and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and reports directly to the President of the World Bank Group. In accordance with its Operational Guidelines4, the CAO screened the audit request against its appraisal criteria and acce...

Complaint > Mining Development and Environmental Control Assistance Project

Compliance Report: 20-Investigation Report (English)

...Requests After the Panel receives a Request for Inspection it is processed as follows: • The Panel decides whether the Request is prima facie not barred from Panel consideration. • The Panel registers the Request—a purely administrative procedure. • The Panel sends the Request to Bank Management, which has 21 working-days to respond to the allegations of the Requesters. • The Panel then conducts a short 21 working-day assessment to determine the eligibility of the Requesters and ...

Complaint > Mozal-01/Matola and Maputo

Compliance Report: CAO Audit of IFC Investments in Mozal, Mozambique, December 18, 2012

...request. It cannot go beyond the confines of the complaint, or request that other issues be addressed. In such cases, the complainant or requestor may consider submission of a new complaint or request. CAO Compliance appraisals and audits consider how IFC/MIGA assured itself/themselves of compliance with national law, reflecting international legal commitments, along with other audit criteria. The CAO has no authority with respect to judicial processes. The CAO is neither a court of appeal nor a...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Compliance Report: 38-Investigation Report (English)

...Requests After the Panel receives a Request for Inspection it is processed as follows: • The Panel decides whether the Request is prima facie not barred from Panel consideration. • The Panel registers the Request—a purely administrative procedure. • The Panel sends the Request to Bank Management, which has 21 working days to respond to the allegations of the Requesters. • The Panel then conducts a short 21 working-day assessment to determine the eligibility of the Requesters ...

Complaint > Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP)

Compliance Report: Final Report , 22 Dec 2004

...President, Vice-President (Operations 1), SARD and the complainants on 28 June 2004. The complainants were very critical of the RAR, alleging that it was biased in favor of the Government and ADB. They also strongly disagreed with SPF’s position that reopening a debate on the original MWSP design was outside SPF’s mandate. Notwithstanding their disagreement with SPF’s review and assessment, the complainants decided to carry on with the consultation process. 23. At step 6 of the consultation ...

Complaint > Celulosas de M'Bopicua (CMB) & Orion-01/Argentina & Uruguay

Compliance Report: CAO Audit of IFC's and MIGA's Due Diligence of Celulosas de M'Bopicua and Orion Paper Mills, Februrary 22, 2006

...request from IFC (see Chapter 3.2.2). The Orion project In the case of the Orion project, the EA was submitted to DINAMA on March 31, 2004. DINAMA’s review up to December 2004, involved six requests for supplementary information and analysis covering a range of topics, including assessment of the cumulative impacts of the Botnia and CMB projects in relation to water, air, and odor. A seventh request was made on December 20, 2004, and the response to this was dated January 17, 2005. On December 6...

Complaint > Avianca-01/Bogota

Compliance Report: English

...President of the World Bank Group. Once the President is satisfied with the response by IFC management, the Office of the President provides clearance for the audit report and the response. After clearance, CAO Compliance shares the audit report and the management response with the World Bank Group Board and discloses both documents on the CAO Web site. As per its established practice CAO will engage an audit panel to work with it on this task. For this particular audit, CAO considers the follow...

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

Compliance Report: 22-Investigation Report (English)

...REQUESTS When the Panel receives a Request for Inspection, it is processed as follows: 1. The Panel decides whether the Request is prima facie3 not barred from its consideration. 2. The Panel registers the Request—a purely administrative procedure. 3. The Panel sends the Request to Bank Management, which has 21 working days to respond to the allegations of the Requesters. 4. On receipt of Management’s response, the Panel conducts a short (21 working-day) assessment to determine the eli...

Complaint > Southern Transport Development Project (STDP)

Compliance Report: CRP Final Report [PDF] (Management Response and Requester Response to CRP Draft Report are attached)

...request for compliance review (Request) on the Southern Transport Development Project 1 (STDP or Project) in Sri Lanka. The Request was submitted by the Joint Organization of the Affected Communities of the Colombo Matara Highway (JO or Requesters). The Request is in Appendix 1. The CRP met in December 2004 and determined that the request was eligible, and as required under the CRP Operating Procedures, recommended to the ADB's Board of Directors (Board) to authorize the CRP to conduct a complia...

Complaint > Lukoil Shah Deniz Stage II

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...President visited Azerbaijan" (May http://www.ebrd.com/news/2016/ebrd-president-visited- 25, 2016) azerbaijan.html "EBRD President concludes visit to http://www.ebrd.com/news/2017/ebrd-president-concludes- Azerbaijan" (8 Sep 2017) visit-to-azerbaijan.html EBRD - Project-specific Information Project Summary Document (EBRD): Lukoil http://www.ebrd.com/work-with-us/projects/psd/lukoil-shah- Shah Deniz Stage II de...

Complaint > South-West Corridor Road Project

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report (English)

...requesting the disclosure of information or documents. Even if the request of the name of a contact person was to be considered a request for information, the Bank had already addressed this request when it declined to enter into an agreement with the Complainant for collaborating in the monitoring of the Project. Moreover, by the time the communication was received, the Project had already been completed and, in substance, the letter was urging the Bank to engage in cooperation with the Complai...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Compliance Report: 16-Investigation Report (English)

...Requests After the Panel receives a Request for Inspection it is processed as follows: • The Panel decides whether the Request is prima facie not barred from Panel consideration. • The Panel registers the Request—a purely administrative procedure. • The Panel sends the Request to Bank Management, which has 21 working- days to respond to the allegations of the Requesters. • The Panel then conducts a short 21 working-day assessment to determine...

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

Compliance Report: 26-Investigation Report (English)

...Requests After the Panel receives a Request for Inspection it is processed as follows: • The Panel decides whether the Request is prima facie not barred from Panel consideration. • The Panel registers the Request—a purely administrative procedure. • The Panel sends the Request to Bank Management, which has 21 working days to respond to the allegations of the Requesters. • The Panel then conducts a short 21 working-day assessment to determine the eligibility of the Requesters ...

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

Compliance Report: 27-Investigation Report (English)

...Request, the Panel had to decide whether the Request was prima facie not barred from its consideration. 14 The Panel found the Request to be within its jurisdiction. The Request was registered on September 30, 2002, and the Notice of Registration was sent to the Bank’s President, Executive Directors, and the Requesters. The Notice of Registration was posted on the Inspection Panel’s website. 15 Bank Management responded to the Request on October 29, 2002, withi...

Complaint > Natural Resource Management Project

Compliance Report: 84 - Investigation Report (English)

...requested the Board to approve the Panel’s recommendation to process this Request as part of the ongoing investigation relating to the first Request for Inspection. The Panel proposed to verify the technical eligibility of the Requesters and the Request during the planned investigation visit. The Board approved the Panel’s request to process the second Request jointly with the first Request and, if deemed eligible, that the Panel address the claims presented in this additional Request in the con...

Complaint > Sostanj Thermal Power Plant

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...Request No. 2011/05), para. 18; PCM, Compliance Review Report: Ombla Hydropower Project (Request No. 2011/06), para. 27. Indeed, the relevance of Article 6(3) of the 1992 Habitats Directive for the interpretation of Bank environmental safeguards can be traced back to Paragraphs 6 and 21 of the EBRD’s 2003 Environmental Policy, see PCM, Compliance Review Report: D1 Motorway, Phase 1, Slovak Republic (Request No. 2010/01), paras. 8-10 and 12. ...

Complaint > Wilmar Group-03/Jambi

Compliance Report: English

...President, the CAO Vice President or senior management of IFC/MIGA. CAO compliance investigations focus on IFC/MIGA, and how IFC/MIGA assured itself of project environmental and social (E&S) performance. The purpose of a CAO compliance investigation is to ensure compliance with policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, and conditions for IFC/MIGA involvement, and thereby improve E&S performance. In the context of a CAO compliance investigation, at issue is whether:  The actual E&S out...