Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Filing: 89-Request for Inspection (English and Russian)

...VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK Philippe H. Le Houerou, December 18, 2010 Vice-President of the World Bank Europe and Central Asia Division Dear Mr. Philippe H. Le Houerou! First of all, I would like to express my respect to You and to the World Bank, which has contributed a lot to the development and poverty alleviation in developing countries, including in Uzbekistan. However, we believe that not all World Bank projects in Uzbekistan deserve uncond...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Response: 89-Management Response and Addendum (English)

...Vice- President of the World Bank, Europe and Management also does not have a record of receiving a Central Asia Division letter addressed to the Regional Vice President, Mr. Shigeo Katsu, in September 2013 and notes that Mr. Katsu was • A written case study prepared by Ezgulik in Regional Vice President in 2003-2009. partnership with Bank In...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89 - Final Eligibility Report (English)

...vices (including essential medical care and education). They also claim that systemic use of forced labor hinders the quality and delivery of such services. 7. The Requesters further state that the Social Assessment carried out for the Project failed to adequately identify the problem of forced and child labor, adding that no serious consideration or analysis was undertaken to assess if, and how, the Project could contribute to this problem. They consider that forced labor in Uzbekistan's c...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Action Plan: 89-Management Progress Report

...Vice President for Europe and Central Asia conducted weekly reviews. In addition, a Social Development Specialist, whose primary task is to focus on child and labor issues, has been stationed in the regional World Bank office for the harvest period. No identifiable cases of child labor and no obvious cases of forced labor were observed by the supervision missions in the project areas. As noted later in the report, ILO has just begun work on elaborating whether certain forms of employment and lab...