Complaint > Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project

Other: 91 - CSO letter on the first Pilot for Early Solutions

...requesters from accessing the Panel’s process. Before initiating the Pilot Program in the Lagos case, the Inspection Panel verified that the Request met the requirements for registration and assured Requesters that if they were not satisfied with the Pilot process, they would have the right to request that the Panel register their Request.5 Although two out of three of the Requesters in the Lagos case expressed their deep dissatisfaction with the Pilot Program and therefore submitted a request f...

Complaint > Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Clean-Up Project, First Request

Other: 47-Press Release (English)

...Requesters’ claims. Bank Management will also supervise completion of a social and vulnerability assessment, and the retroactive application of the resulting assistance packages for the poor and/or vulnerable affected by the demolitions. Management will report back to the Board in three months on progress. “From basic project management to interactions with the Board and the Inspection Panel, the Bank’s record with this project is appalling,” said World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick, w...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Other: Press Release on Board Discussion (English)

...Request for Inspection was submitted by residents of Chamoli and Tehri District in Uttarakhand. The Requesters raised several concerns about local and region-wide environmental, social and cultural impacts related to the Project. The Inspection Panel found that the Bank was in broad compliance with its policies and procedures while preparing the Project and that it had introduced some best practices in the technical, environmental and social aspects. The Panel report also highlighted initiatives...

Complaint > Natural Resource Management Project

Other: 84 - Press Release on Board Discussion (English)

...Request for Inspection was submitted by residents of Chamoli and Tehri District in Uttarakhand. The Requesters raised several concerns about local and region-wide environmental, social and cultural impacts related to the Project. The Inspection Panel found that the Bank was in broad compliance with its policies and procedures while preparing the Project and that it had introduced some best practices in the technical, environmental and social aspects. The Panel report also highlighted initiatives...

Complaint > Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project

Other: 91 - Panel's response to CSO letter on the first Pilot for Early Solutions

...Requesters and their representatives freely and directly. Throughout the Pilot process, there were numerous instances in which the Panel intervened to bring to the attention of Bank management specific concerns raised by the Requesters, to which Bank management promptly responded. Furthermore, and as stipulated in the Pilot document, Requesters can at any time request for the process to be stopped and ask for a full investigation. In this particular case, we in fact received a last minute reques...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Other: 40-Press Release on Board Discussion

...request made by communities in Nigeria who claimed that the WAGP project will adversely impact their safety, environment and livelihoods due to acquisition of land and other related assets. They contended that the Bank failed to comply with its policies and procedures on environmental assessment, project supervision, and involuntary resettlement, posing irreparable harm to their livelihoods. The Inspection Panel noted the importance of the Project as a regional initiative in West Africa. However...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Other: 44-Press Release

...President Robert B. Zoellick. “I welcome the report of the Inspection Panel on how to focus our efforts on improving the Bujagali project. We can demonstrate that the World Bank Group can help develop vital clean energy sources while safeguarding other environmental and local concerns.” Responding to a request from the National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE), a Ugandan non-governmental organization, the Inspection Panel investigated the World Bank’s compliance with its oper...

Complaint > Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Clean-Up Project, First Request

Other: 47-PowerPoint Presentation for Independent Accountability Mechanisms Meeting

...Request for Inspection registered i t db by th the P Panell iin July 2007 Management Response  Categorical assertion that there is " no direct or indirect linkage " between the Project and the demolitions in Jale Fact Finding Process Eligibility Phase:  Meeting with the Government and Construction Police  Meeting with the Requesters “You are crying now, but don't worry, you will be eating with a silver spoon soon, as this is part ...

Complaint > Santa Fe Road Infrastructure Project and Provincial Road Infrastructure Project, 3rd Request

Other: 51-Press Release (English)

...request were being addressed by Management without the need for a full investigation. In general, the Inspection Panel found that Bank Management and staff made significant efforts to address the issues raised by the Requesters, to achieve compliance with Bank policies and to engage in a constructive and forthcoming dialogue with the affected people. The Panel noted the positive way in which Management dealt with the complaint and strived for appropriate corrections during the Panel process. The...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Other: 65-Press Release on Board Discussion (English)

...Request, namely that South Africa’s legal and institutional framework for environmental and social safeguards supports the application of the Use of Country Systems policy, and that the Medupi power plant entails substantial environmental and social risks raised in the Request that have to be carefully managed moving forward.” He added, “The Panel believes that its findings represent constructive contributions towards addressing these concerns, and highlights the importance of transparency and e...

Complaint > Second Urban Environment Sanitation Project

Other: 49-Press Release on Board Discussion (English)

...requested in August 2007 by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) on behalf of the Agyemankata Community, which resides in the Kwabenya township in Greater Accra. The Request focused on a specific project subcomponent, the proposed Kwabenya sanitary landfill, which was to be constructed to serve the solid waste management requirements of Greater Accra. The Requesters claimed that they would be adversely affected by the Bank’s failure to comply with its own operat...

Complaint > Third Power Project, Fourth Power Project, and proposed Bujagali Hydropower Project

Other: 24-Press Release on Board Discussion

...Request the private sponsor of the Bujagali project, to carry out focused surveys to support implementation and monitoring of the relevant components of the Community Development Action Plan. · Monitor implementation of agreements to be signed with tourism operators and support measures to be taken to address re- employment of Ugandan citizens affected by loss of tourism-related jobs. Management was also invited to continue the economic analysis in order to facilitate, as necessary, risk mitigat...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Other: 34-Press Release on Board Discussion (English)

...requested by residents of Badin. The requesters, on behalf of local communities, claimed they were adversely affected by the Bank’s failure to comply with certain operational policies in connection with the Bank-financed NDP Project and earlier LBOD project. “While these older Bank-supported projects did succeed in creating opportunities for poor people in Sindh by expanding agriculture dramatically, the Inspection Panel has shown that the World Bank ─ and everyone involved in the projects ─ cou...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Other: 60- Press Release (English)

...President, Robert Zoellick. The Panel Investigation was conducted in response to a Request for Inspection submitted on September 4, 2009, by NGOs on behalf of residents in the Boeung Kak Lake area of central Phnom Penh, who have been forcibly resettled by the Phnom Penh Municipality and a private developer to make way for a new development. The Inspection Panel Report focused on whether the Bank has complied with its own policies including Resettlement Policies during the design, implementation ...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Other: GBV Task Force Recommendations

...Requests for Proposal SBD Standard Bidding Documents W O R K I N G T O G E T H E R T O P R E V E N T S E X U A L E X P L O I TAT I O N A N D A B U S E 4 Executive Summary “ In October 2016, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim established an indepen- dent Task Force of external experts to provide guidance on how to strength- en Bank systems, tools and processes ...