Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report Executive Summary

...unknown. Such an analysis would have helped to prevent the lack of transparency in the way compensation payments were made. The Panel further observes that the number of displaced persons reported in the RAP was determined using a figure for “average” household size which the RAP itself notes is “surprisingly low.” The Panel expert determined that the size of the displaced population seems to be underestimated as a result of the methodology used for their identification. ...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Compliance Report: 60-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown, the Panel is extremely concerned about the large number of people who were forcibly evicted, displaced, or are under threat of eviction in Project areas. The Panel found that due to lack of a robust monitoring and evaluation system for the Project, Bank Management did not become aware of significant issues arising from the Project, which does not comply with Bank policy. Additional Observations. The Panel wishes to underscore that it considers the Bank’s engagement on land issues in Cam...

Complaint > Agrokasa-01/Ica

Compliance Report: CAO Audit of IFC Investments in Agribusiness in the Ica Valley, Peru, February 22, 2011

...unknown. In particular, the impacts of the proposed water transfer within the aquifer are not assessed. The ESRS notes Agrokasa’s ongoing commitment to reduce water consumption; however, this is somewhat meaningless in terms of impact without a better understanding of the aquifer baseline, which may well be deteriorating at a significant and wholly unsustainable rate. The basis for a B categorization is therefore heavily predicated on the production of an adequate EA and its disclosure. The CAO ...

Complaint > Sao Jose dos Campos Urban Structuring Program

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown Environmental impact assessments, strategic Prior to the analysis Relatório de Avaliação Not environmental mission: Portuguese No Ambiental disclosed assessments, or 11-19 March 2008 other environmental analyses ...

Complaint > Sao Jose dos Campos Urban Structuring Program

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown Environmental impact assessments, strategic Prior to the analysis Relatório de Avaliação Not environmental mission: Portuguese No Ambiental disclosed assessments, or 11-19 March 2008 other environmental analyses ...

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

Compliance Report: English

...unknown soybean farmers, and Amaggi’s capacity to conduct soybean supplier due-diligence was unclear; ƒ That the project would enable Amaggi to establish a presence in growth areas in eastern Mato Grosso. Displacement of less profitable agricultural activities would indirectly lead to conversion of natural cerrado (Brazilian savannah) or forests to soybean cultivation; ƒ That IFC’s categorization of the project did not take due account of publicly available information that a...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown. Such an analysis would have helped to prevent the lack of transparency in the way compensation payments were made. The Panel further observes that the number of displaced persons reported in the RAP was determined using a figure for “average” household size which the RAP itself notes is “surprisingly low.” The Panel expert determined that the size of the displaced population seems to be underestimated as a result of the methodology used for their identification. ...

Complaint > Proposed Kosovo Power Project and Second Additional Financing Energy Sector Clean-up and Land Reclamation Project

Compliance Report: 103-Inspection Panel Investigation Report(English)

...unknown. The evacuees in temporary shelters told the Panel they wanted to resettle in the New Shkabaj resettlement site along with other members of their former community of Hade. 131. Panel Finding. The Panel finds the Bank was not involved in the 2004/05 emergency evacuation of a part of Hade Village, nor was it involved in the subsequent resettlement process, and thus is not responsible for the harm arising from it. The Panel understands the evacuation decision was taken by UNMIK and resettle...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Compliance Report: 34-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown from what depth the samples were taken. Allegedly the samples showed that the soils were generally of stiff cohesive clay with high silt content (85%) and with clay and sand contents of 10% and 5% respectively. 102 During the design phase, a consultant collected auger samples from one meter depth and less to calibrate the model. 103 Additional borehole samples were taken by another consultant from a 10 foot depth. 104 These samples s...

Complaint > Ombla Hydro Power Plant

Compliance Report: Compliance Review Report

...unknown at the time of seeking Board approval compared to the D1 Motorway Project, where most of the biodiversity studies had already been completed with the active involvement of EBRD prior to Board approval. Also, the biodiversity studies remaining to be conducted are of an entirely different scale in the case of the Ombla Project. The financial value of the further biodiversity / BMP consultancy work to be undertaken by consultants on the Ombla Project is over 18...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Compliance Report: Final Report in English and in Gujarati [PDF]

...unknown. Figure 2: Women at Tragadi bander sorting fish 32 Notes based on observations made by Aakar during its engagement with the fisherfolk community at Tragadi, Report 2, page 11; and Fishmarc and Kutch Nav Nirman Abhiyan (with support from the Foundation for Ecological Security). 2010. Kutch Coast: People, Environment & Livelihoods. Draft report for discussion at a workshop in Kutch on 7–8 January 2010, page 47, which lists 35 families living at Trag...

Complaint > Lydian Intl3-01/Gndevaz & Jermuk

Compliance Report: English

...unknown because their tolerance to increased dust levels is unknown. There may therefore be future impacts on livestock grazing, informal herb collection, and cropping that are as yet unspecified. The acceptability of this situation is therefore predicated on a monitoring and management program that is participatory and transparent, and that actively manages future impacts that may affect the health or livelihoods of villagers such as those living in Gndevaz.71 The IESC gap analysis notes that t...

Complaint > Arun III Proposed Hydroelectric Project and Restructuring of IDA Credit

Compliance Report: Investigation Report (English)

...unknown. Land- owners tended to be grateful for whatever they received, as opposed to feeling they had true legal recourse to ensure fair treatment. This was particularly true in remote hill and mountainous areas where the local authorities were not operating in a democratic framework. The first Land Acquisition Act was passed in 1956, with subsequent revisions. When the legal framework was examined in the course of designing this project, Bank staff found it to be manifestly inadequate for meet...

Complaint > Vizhinjam-01/Kerala

Compliance Report: CAO Compliance Investigation Report, Vizhinjam 01, 02 & 03 - January 23, 2018

...unknown due to the stage of project development, the requirement is to develop an LRF outlining general principles compatible with PS5.78 Once individual project components are defined, the requirement is to develop a LRP that establishes the entitlements of affected persons and communities.79 The Guidance Note to PS5 emphasizes that the potential cost of mitigation for economic and physical displacement should be scoped early in the project design phase and integrated into consideration of proj...

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

Compliance Report: 82- Inspection Panel Investigation Report Ethiopia PBS Phase III Project

...unknown as data is unreliable, but the majority of Anuak live in Ethiopia.60 Linguistically, they belong to the Luo (or Lwo) group of the Western Nilotic languages, while the overwhelming majority of Ethiopians speak Afro-Asiatic languages. Unlike the Nuer or Dinka, who also belong to the Western Nilotic group and who are cattle pastoralists, the Anuak mostly depend on agriculture, fishing, hunting and gathering.61 65. According to the Panel’s experts, the Anuak mainly rely on crops, such a...

Complaint > Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project

Compliance Report: 36-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown, the dominance of this historic Khmer kingdom within and beyond the current boundaries of Cambodia has very probably entailed many centuries of significant linguistic and ethnic “Khmerization” (or convergence of other languages and ethnic traditions toward those of the Khmer who were historically dominant in the region). 75. The map below shows localities where five language families are spoken ...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project 2

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

...unknown proportion of these AHs were inadequately compensated for their houses. 164. ADB staff stated that houses were likely undercompensated for a variety of reasons, including (i) miscategorization where a house is assigned a class with lower compensation when it falls into more than one class, (ii) houses affected by the 25% rule unilaterally introduced by IRC contrary to the agreed 30 m2 rule, (iii) miscategorization of houses with two or more floors as single floored, and (iv) the applicat...

Complaint > Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project

Compliance Report: 19-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown. These discoveries along the hyacinth free rocky shores indicated that it was unlikely that the hyacinth was playing any significant role in the survival of cichlid fish species."39 151. A crucial question concerns the fate of the water hyacinth seeds during and after shredding and sinking. The Management Response indicates that this was one of the issues raised with the experts consulted.40 The opinion was that: "Regeneration of water hyacinth af...

Complaint > Pando-Monte Lirio Hydroelectric Power Project

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown. The project will divert the river and it is likely that the remaining 10 percent ecological flow will significantly reduce the depth of the river. The Project has been intensively debated within Management. There have also been discussions with the Board. o Time line of Ecological Flow Discussions Prior to Financial Closure: Prior to the date of financial closure, the IDB demanded that EISA presented in form and substance satisfactory to the Bank the following documents: (a) f...

Complaint > Tata Ultra Mega-01/Mundra and Anjar

Compliance Report: English

...unknown impact on sea turtle nesting; and (b) that that the “mixing plume of hot water may cause thermal stress prompting deviation of sea turtle movement from normal route traversed to reach sea shore for nesting.” (Ibid.). CAO also notes that a map included in the BNHS study under the title “Map 4 (provided by CGPL). Worst Case Scenario for Thermal dispersion from the outfall channel” (p.21)-and relied upon by BNHS in the preparation of their study-significantly underestimates the maximum exte...