Complaint > Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project

Eligibility: 36-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...President’s Memorandum on Adaptable Lending, 1997 and subsequent directives on Learning and Innovation Loans (LILs). 1 OP 4.36 (Forestry) issued in September 1993 applies to this Project because the Credit financing the FCMCPP was approved in June 2000 while the current Bank Policy OP/BP 4.36 (Forests) was issued in November 2002. vi I. INTRODUCTION 1. On February 4, 2005, the Inspec...

Complaint > Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project

Compliance Report: 36-Investigation Report (English)

...vice president of Huachiew Chalermprakiat University; then joined the Thailand Environment Institute (TEI) as vice president. In 1998, Mr. Onchan was appointed president of TEI. He helped establish and was appointed president of the Mekong Environment and Resource Institute (MERI) in 2000. He has served as advisor to the Prime Minister and to the Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, as member of the National Environmental Board, chairman of the National EIA Committee, chairman of the...

Complaint > Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project

Management Response: 36-Management Response (English)

...vice salaries, widespread corruption, and other problems; it set out building “the foundations for sustainable development and poverty reduction” as the Bank’s main objective in Cambodia (CAS, p. v). The CAS acknowl- edged the risks to Cambodia of faltering political commitment to reforms in the face of powerful special interests or a return to social unrest and political instability. During his February 2005 visit to Cambodia, World Bank President Wolfensohn told Government ministers, diplomats...