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 > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Timeline: 40-Register (English)

...Request for Inspection received by Secretariat April 27, 2006 2. Request Registered May 2, 2006 3. Notice of Registration with the Request sent to the May 2, 2006 President 4. Notice of Registration sent to: 5. Requesters May 2, 2006 6. Executive Directors May 2, 2006 7. Notice of Registration put on the Internet May 2, 2006 8. Executive Direc...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Eligibility: 40-Eligibility Report Final (English)

...Request for Inspection Re: Request for Inspection GHANA: West African Gas Pipeline Project (IDA Guarantee No. B-006-0-GH) Inspection Panel Recommendation 1. On April 27, 2006, the Inspection Panel received a Request for Inspection related to the West African Gas Pipeline Project1 . The Request was submitted by the Ifesowapo Host Communities Forum of the Wes...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Registration: 40-Notice of Registration (English)

...Request for Inspection GHANA: West African Gas Pipeline Project (IDA Guarante No. B-006-0-GH) On April 27, 2006, the Inspection Panel (the “Panel”) received a Request for Inspection (the “Request”), dated the same day, related to the Ghana : West African Gas Pipeline Project (the “Project”). The Request was submitted by the Ifesowapo Host Communities Forum of the West African Gas Pipeline Project ...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report (English)

...Request, p. 3. 154 Request, p. 4. 155 Request, p. 4. 156 Request, p. 4. 157 Request, p. 4. 158 Request, p. 3. 159 Request, p. 5. 160 Request, p. 5. 40 minimize land acquisition, guarantee that all affected households have an option to choose between land-for-land or cash compensation based on negotiated replacement costs, ensure that no cons...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-First Management Progress Report

...request. 3. Since the approval of the MAP in August 2008, significant progress has been made in addressing the issues and implementing specific measures. Key accomplishments include: (a) Commissioning of the pipeline, injection facility, and receipt station, and line packing to enable commencement of free-flow gas from Nigeria to Ghana in December 2008. Ghana’s Volta River Authority (VRA) is currently not consuming the free-flow gas on account of the favorable oil prices in ...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Eligibility: 40-Eligibility Report (English)

...Request, p. 6. 15 Request, p. 6. 16 Request, p. 7. 17 Request, p. 7. 18 Request, p. 3. 19 Request, p. 4. 5 19. The Requesters indicate that there were no “binding contractual relations between individual landowners and WAPCO”.20 They assert that the payment of compensation was left to the discretion of the Project sponsors, resulting in payment of compensation only for the actual crops on ...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-Fourth Management Progress Report

...Request and asking to be included among the Requesters. The Host Communities Forum and FoE-Ghana represented local people living in Nigeria and Ghana, and were recognized as the Requesters. 6. Claims of the Requesters. The Requesters from Nigeria’s Delta Region were mainly concerned with the Project’s impact on gas flaring reduction and with the safety of an existing pipeline to which WAGP was to be linked. The Requesters and affected communities living near the gas pipeline in Nigeria comp...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Response: 40-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...Request was submitted on behalf of the members of the Association, which is composed of 12 communities affected by the Project around the Badagry area, in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria (hereafter referred to as the “Requesters”). 2. The Executive Directors and the President of IDA were notified by the Panel of receipt of the Request. The Management responded to the claims in the Request on June 6, 2006. 3. In its Report to the Board on July 7, 2006, the Panel refrained from recommen...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Action Plan: 40-Third Management Progress Report

...requested by many communities. A program of livelihood assistance to support the income and production of Project displaced households and enterprises, that detailed study may show are falling below the bar of ‘no worse off’. (c) Environmental and safety compliance. Major actions under the MAP have been completed; however, with the project transitioning into operations, a number of activities, such as translation of Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for the operations phase, co...