Complaint > San Francisco-Mocoa Alternate Road Construction Project - Phase I

Dispute Resolution: Issuance of Consultation Phase Report

...vice versa.14 Although in November 2010 some members of the indigenous 6 Cf. IDB, San Francisco-Mocoa Alternate Road Construction Project - Phase I (CO-L1019), Loan Proposal, 17 December 2009, pages 5 to 7. 7 As stipulated in the current Environment and Safeguards Compliance Policy (OP-703), “any operation that is likely to cause significant negative environmental and associated social impacts, or have profound implications affecting natural resources, will be classified as C...

Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Dispute Resolution: Issuance of Consultation Phase Report

...President, Project Manager Independent Board of Paleoseismic Consultants Ronald D. Kaufmann, Vice President, Senior Geophysicist Dr. Ray Weldon, Professor of Neotectonics, Structural and Richard C. Benson, Senior Scientist Quaternary Geology, Univ. of Oregon Daniel W. Casto, Geophysicist Chronology of Saltwater Analysis Verti...

Complaint > Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City Highway Project

Dispute Resolution: Review and Assessment Report

...vice and support.  SPF will review relevant documents and will field a fact-finding mission on his/her own initiative or participate, in consultation with the OD, in a special project administration mission of the OD.  SPF will complete the review and assessment, and will report his/her findings to the President, with a copy to the Vice-President concerned. ...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Dispute Resolution: Final Report (English)

...vices, like safe drinking water and electricity, and support to retrain and start small businesses to earn a new living. Despite this, the complainants alleged that compensation was inadequate, which forced them into debt. In addition, the resettled people were still living in hardship due to inadequate basic services. All complainants alleged that they were worse off because of the project. The proposed course of action suggested four activities to address the concerns of the complainants...

Complaint > BTC Pipeline-20/Atskuri

Dispute Resolution: Problem Solving Completion Report

...President Nursulta Nazarbaiev and Azeri President Ilham Aliyev. Kazakhstan will transport around 3 million tones of oil from 2006 and will increase it to 7,5 million tones by 2010. after that Kazakstan has pledged to transport 25 million tones via BTC annually. Thus the increased impact of tanker traffic (at least initially)and/or the construction of undersea pipeline will drastically impact a sensitive Caspian sea environment. iii) According to the information released under the Freedom o...

Complaint > Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP)

Dispute Resolution: Final Report, 22 Dec 2004

...President, Vice-President (Operations 1), SARD and the complainants on 28 June 2004. The complainants were very critical of the RAR, alleging that it was biased in favor of the Government and ADB. They also strongly disagreed with SPF’s position that reopening a debate on the original MWSP design was outside SPF’s mandate. Notwithstanding their disagreement with SPF’s review and assessment, the complainants decided to carry on with the consultation process. 23. At step 6 of the consul...

Complaint > CAREC Transport Corridor I Investment Program

Dispute Resolution: Review and Assessment Report (RAR) (English)

...President, the periodic financing request report for the second tranche, and the environmental management plan (EMP); (ii) interviews with ADB staff involved in the project; (iii) interviews with the national and oblast committees of roads and local government representatives; (iv) meetings with design and project management consultants; (v) meetings with NGOs; and (vi) a field-based assessment consisting of site visits; individual interviews and small group discussions with 30 villagers, i...

Complaint > Delonex and Africa Oil-01/Kerio Valley

Dispute Resolution: Dispute Resolution Conclusion Report

...vice versa. In addition, CAO is obliged to keep the confidentiality of information shared by a party, unless such party authorizes its disclosure. Separate bilateral negotiations coupled with such confidentiality obligations may be a double-edged sword. While they are useful for the parties and to move the process forward, in this case, they may have created mistrust between the parties and CAO. This is likely because, due to the nature of bilateral meetings, the parties were not able to a...