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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > Natural Resource Management Project

Compliance Report: 84 - Investigation Report (English)

...unknown number of people, some of whom are said to have been on the waiting list for land in Phase II, moved into a largely deforested part of this area, put up small shelters, and started farming. Community members justified this action on the basis that the land was theirs since it had been promised to them by President Moi in 1993, and then by the 37 Embobut Task Force 2010: 21 38 See Social Assessment: 21, 22. 21 provincial administr...

Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Compliance Report: 23-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown period of time, thus ending up worse off than they were before. This, he said, was hardly consistent with paragraph 3 (b) of OD 4.30. • The absence of a definition of “adult individuals.” • The reliance on evidence that a person was a legitimate PAP for purposes of compensation and rehabilitation should include the ability to get a “sworn affidavit”. • The absence of any description of an appeal mechanism for P...

Complaint > Cartagena Water Supply, Sewerage and Environmental Management Project

Compliance Report: 31-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown. In order to gain an appreciation of the potential influence of the proposed outfall on a regional scale and assess the assimilative capacity of the region it is useful to compare the loads from the proposed outfall to those originating from the Magdalena River that drains most of Columbia and enters the ocean near Barranquilla about 100 km north of Cartagena. The comparisons are shown in Table 1. From Table 1 it is seen that the impact of the proposed outfall is very small in terms of f...

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

Compliance Report: 26-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown amount of time to come) leaves the large population that has long been awaiting resettlement with losses and hardships. The Panel met many people who are unable to sell homes or property in the area scheduled for flooding but not yet flooded, as buyers can seldom be found for property that may or may not be flooded in the future. These people are unsure whether they will be compensated for improvements or additions to their already-survey...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Compliance Report: 62-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown to coastal groups or even to some neighboring highland populations. 76. In a study conducted for the World Bank, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote: The extreme ethnolinguistic fragmentation of the country is noted by every observer of PNG, and is obviously the root cause of the failure to generate strong collective action at a national level. It is not just that the society is fragmented; the underlying social groups ar...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Compliance Report: 44-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown” and notes that a concern arose for those who were “significantly affected and were considered as Displaced People but did not opt for AESNP’s resettlement assistance, and chose rather to relocate themselves.” 463 The APRAP also recognizes the need to reestablish monitoring of the non-resettled population.464 463. The Panel notes that the survey conducted by BEL cannot be considered a census of economic or social conditions as defined in OP 4.12.46...

Complaint > Power Sector Generation and Restructuring Project

Compliance Report: 46-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown and were not considered. The PAD contains no discussion or description of the project area’s demography and local economy, or of the Vlora community itself, as required by OMS 2.20.238 235. The omission of social assessment has compounded the non-compliance with the Bank policy requirement of consulting the area population and learning from its concerns.239 The Panel reviewed the essential project documents and found that in ...

Complaint > DRC High Priority Roads Reopening and Maintenance (2nd Additional Financing)

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report(English)

...unknown. Management explained that all nine alleged victims were referred to GBV service providers. 432 431 It is not clear how many of those overlap with the cases substantiated by the Panel. 432 E-mail dated April 11, 2018. 88 326. The Panel found a pattern in which abused women and girls were abandoned after the incidents and/or relationships with Contractor personnel. In all cases promises were broken. In some cases perpetra...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Compliance Report: 65-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown, storage capacity of the Mokolo Reservoir. 208 Management response email July 11th, 2011. 209 This provision is echoed in the PAD, p. 215, which notes that if sufficient water were not available to Eskom, the Bank would recommend that Eskom ―investigate the feasibility of using a less water intensive, dry FGD technology prior to commencing full operation.‖ 210 The PAD (p. 217, para. 70, Annex II) refers to an eventual ―independent feasibility analysis of alternative control t...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Compliance Report: 16-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown. In general it may be accepted that the extemely harsh and cold winters of the Project area will prevent most agricultural pests from getting out of control. The PAD and the Management Response make it clear that no Bank funds will be used for the procurement of pesticides, but these will be provided by the borrower as counterpart funds for the Project and must therefore be interpreted as part of a Bank-funded project. 242. The statement in the Management Response (p.75) that ther...