Complaint > Marlin-01/Sipacapa

Filing: Statement on the IFC-financed Marlin Mine, Guatemala by Civil Society Organizations, June 2006

...President, World Bank Lars Thunell, Vice-President, International Finance Corporation Rashad Kaldany, Director, Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Department, International Finance Corporation Meg Taylor, Compliance Advisory Ombudsman

Complaint > Marlin-01/Sipacapa

Eligibility: CAO Follow-up Assessment Guatemala, Complaint Regarding the Marlin Mining Project, May 2006

...President of the World Bank Group encouraged the parties to negotiate a middle ground and requested that the CAO lead this effort. As a first step toward fulfilling that recommendation, the CAO undertook a field visit to Guatemala from January 23 to February 1, 2006 to explore the feasibility of creating a stakeholder dialogue process that would identify and resolve issues related to the conflict. The role of the CAO in this process would be neither “judge” nor “party,” but rather as an independ...

Complaint > Marlin-01/Sipacapa

Eligibility: Assessment

...President of the World Bank Group, and its mandate is to assist in addressing complaints by people affected by projects in a manner that is fair, objective, and constructive and to enhance the social and environmental outcomes of projects in which IFC and MIGA play a role. In the first instance, complaints are managed through the CAO’s Ombudsman function. In March 2005 the CAO received a complaint from communities in Sipacapa municipality local to the Marlin mining project in Guatemala. The comp...