Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Filing: Complaint

...unknown. Despite the geographic disparity between complainants, the substance of the complaints that BABC has monitored is quite similar. The complaints generally relate to insufficient compensation to restore lost assets and/or adequate housing, resulting in increased indebtedness; multiple families living in one shelter who were not awarded separate plots of land at the Project-sponsored resettlement site; faulty DMS that substantially downgraded entitlements, including assistance for vu...

Complaint > MHP-01/Vinnytsia

Filing: Letter of complaint - June 5, 2018 EN

...unknown to local communities. A 2016 Supplementary Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (“ESIA”) for the VPF released by the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (“OPIC”) in connection with its own investment review process attempts to estimate the resource use and other impacts of the VPF, by adding together predictions and reports found in other documents, produced at varying times, for individual facilities.23 However, discrepancies between the OPIC Supplementary ESIA ...

Complaint > MHP Corporate Support Loan, MHP Biogas

Filing: Complaint (English)

...unknown to local communities. A 2016 Supplementary Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (“ESIA”) for the VPF released by the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (“OPIC”) in connection with its own investment review process attempts to estimate the resource use and other impacts of the VPF, by adding together predictions and reports found in other documents, produced at varying times, for individual facilities.23 However, discrepancies between the OPIC Supplementary ESIA...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Filing: 44-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown whether Lake Victoria will recharge to the high levels and outflow experienced during the 1961-2000 period. It is also not known whether such a recharge will occur in the next few years or in the next 100 years. A 2005 report2 by Water Resources and Energy Management International Inc., a US consultancy commissioned by the Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, predicts that climate change could dramatically reduce the lake's levels and therefore outflow to ...

Complaint > Marena Renovables Wind Project 2

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...unknown.26 The above leads to a failure to identify, in a timely and effective way, the direct adverse impacts on the communities located where the transmission lines will be constructed. In violation of the Indigenous Policy,27 this omission by the Bank 21 On 02/08/2011, the Community of San Dionisio Pueblo Viejo held an Assembly in which it decided on total rejection of the Project. It should be emphasized that, besides community members and inhabit...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...unknown the potentially damaging consequences of a project supporting large-scale, concession-based logging. 3) Failure to Publish an Environmental Assessment: OP 4.01. The Bank has failed to publish the Environmental Assessment it has commissioned, denying affected communities the ability to determine the project’s social and environmental impact. 4) Violation of Bank’s Forest Policy: OP 4.36; BP 4.36. The Bank violated its Forest Policy by promot...

Complaint > Mongolia Mining Infrastructure Investment Support (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Investment Support - Additional Financing

Filing: 102 - Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown whether and how stakeholder comments were taken into consideration in further development of those TOR. • The Shuren Hydro design on which all hydrological and economic calculations were based was known to threaten the huge water intake facility of Erdenet city. Threatening public water supply • Shuren Project personnel knew that, but until summer 2014 they did not discl...

Complaint > Interagua-01/Guayaquil

Filing: English Part 1

...unknown, and through a more efficient collection of water resources.”2 According to MIGA, “the new project is expected to contribute to the enhancement of health and living conditions for the local population, while at the same time reducing the cost of water for those now depending on other water sources.”3 2. The participation of MIGA in the Project MIGA granted the Interagua project a guarantee of $18 million in 2001. According to MIGA, “the project represents MIGA’s first...

Complaint > Karot Hydro-03

Filing: COMPLAINT AGAINST IFC’S PROJECT NO. 36008 – KAROT HYDRO (PAKISTAN)

...unknown union like Social Hydro Union could have managed to do that without the help of Karot’s management. It has been clear, ever since the creation of the company-controlled union, that Karot management has kept up negotiations with Awami Labour Union solely in a formal manner, with no real intention to improve its workers’ conditions. On 6 January 2020, in the face of IFC’s inaction to bring its client into compliance with Performance Standard 2, BWI sent a letter to the IFC listing th...

Complaint > Power Development Project

Filing: 87-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown] (hereinafter “EIA Executive Summary”). 6 EIA Executive Summary, at 2. Interview by Komala Ramachandra with Surendraswor Moktan, Chairperson of the Protest Committee, Member of the Tamang indigenous community, resident of Majhitar, Kamalamai Municipality, Sindhuli District, Ward No. 7 (June 4, 2013). Notes of interviews are on file with Accountability Counsel and available upon request. including ten in Sindhuli District.7 Project documents indicate that a 15-meter right of ...

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

Filing: 103-Request for Inspection

TO: Executive Secretary, the Inspection Panel 1818 H Street NW, MSN 10-1007 Washington, DC 20433 USA Attn: Gonzalo Castro De La Mata, Dilek Barlak, Mishka Zaman 12rn June 2015 Prishtine, KOSOVO " WESTERN BALKANS We, citizens of Hade (Old and New) and Obiliq, Kosove respectively Haqif Shala,(Shkabaj) Ragib Grajcevci (Old Hade), Avni Orajcevci (Obiliq) have, are and will suffer Joss of...

Complaint > Ituango Hydropower Plant

Filing: Request Receipt

...unknown. This is contrary to the international standards and best practices established for this type of project.92 The Policy establishes that: “1. Every effort will be made to avoid or minimize the need for involuntary resettlement. A thorough analysis of project alternatives must be carried out in order to identify solutions that are economically and technically feasible while eliminating or minimizing the need for involuntary resettlement.” In addition, accord...

Complaint > Altain Khuder debt & equity

Filing: Complaint

...unknown number of herders who once had grazing lands in the area where the mine is now located are also displaced. Some herders said that resettlement continues to this day to make way for the mine’s expansion. Inadequate compensation Altain Khuder’s resettlement programme includes cash compensation but not allocation of new land. Despite the highly complex, customary and collective land system, negotiations took place on an individual basis without involvement of the soum or aimag, while compen...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...Unknown Chancellery Tax 3 000.00 RVM General Tax $26 446.? H. VILLE City Council Tax $118.? ONATRA Berthing Tax ...

Complaint > Maple Energy-01/Nuevo Sucre and Canaan

Filing: English

...unknown illness. His symptoms were extreme stomach pain and vomiting. The doctors in the hospital performed blood tests and they were negative for any known illnesses. Leonardo Tuesta died an excruciatingly painful death in a Contamana hospital, 14 hours after becoming violently ill.75 ii. Liz Charo Buenapico Maldonado, age 12, in severe pain, near death Liz Charo Buenapico Maldonado is 12-years old.76 Before the 2009 oil spills, community members descri...

Complaint > EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Filing: Complaint

...unknown whether the Project group acted at all. [27] The third stage of policy of MB Kolubara and EPS regarding Vreoci, from mid 2010 to now, began with the decision of the Council of MZ Vreoci from June 28, 2010 to suspend its participation in the Committee for monitoring of Vreoci resettlement and in the Committee for monitoring the Vreoci graveyard relocation. The decision was taken at a citizens' gathering attended by hundreds of citizens and a large number of members of ES "Vreoci". With th...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

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

...unknown. In addition to Navruz, there were several tragic deaths. Igor Yachkevskiy, a 55-year old resident of Tashkent city, died of a heart attack while picking cotton in Okkurgon district, Tashkent region on the 17th of September.9Umid, a third year student of the Bukhara Engineering Institute of High Technologies, in Bukhara region, died after he was hit by a tractor on his 8 Barno Anwar, “Шаҳрисабзликмарҳумтеримчинингоиласиадолаткутмоқда,” Ozodlik.org, 15 October 2012, available at h...

Complaint > Tax Administration Reform Project

Filing: 64-Request for Inspection Annexes (English)

...unknown darkness (of the scenarios given in Para 4) and throwing oneself at the mercy of the Establishment Division. That it is also possible that pe.titioners opt for IRS and would finally find themselves in the PRS without opting for it (Para 4(b) of O:M.); m) Creating a new occupational group and seeking irrevocable options from • I . Customs and Excise Group and Income T~ Group to join the same ...

Complaint > Improving Rural Livelihoods through Carbon Sequestration Project

Filing: 80-Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown territory. He is driven by passion, commitment and conviction. But he was stopped. By none other than the World Bank on which he is banking. Why? He asks? What wrong have I committed? He questions, "While the World Bank organizes conclaves to inspire the youth to take greater responsibilities, why is it not supporting a youngster to represent a project with which itself partnered? He sought an answer, "how do I reach the international community to benefit from their ...

Complaint > Sustainable Development of Natural Resources - Additional Financing, and Sustainable Development of Natural Resources II

Filing: 83-Second Request for Inspection (English)

...unknown destinations rather than put themselves at risk in their designated new location, while others returned home but were forcefully removed by the police. Information to those affected has been lacking, adding to the uncertainty and fear. There has been no authoritative statement on how many villages and which ones are to be relocated during which phase of the process.11 VII. Conference After the World Bank’s failure to organize a serious meeting consisting of independent experts...