Complaint > Mumbai Urban Transport Project

Management Action Plan: 32-Sixth Management Progress Report

...Requesters from Gazi Nagar relocated to a non-MUTP site of their choice. The third group of Requesters from Bharti Nagar was left unaffected by SCLR. The fourth group of Requesters representing shopkeepers affected by the Jogeshwari Road-over- Bridges (ROBs) is not a part of the MUTP R&R process as the ROBs were excluded from the Project during its restructuring in 2008. MMRDA handed over the list of 389 ROB-affected shopkeepers and as many alternative shops to the Municipal Corporation of Great...

Complaint > Electricity Expansion Project

Management Response: Management Report and Recommendation

...Request for Inspection, IPN Request RQ 14/06 (hereafter referred to as “the Request”), concerning the Kenya: Electricity Expansion Project (“the Project”) financed by IDA (the Bank). The Request was submitted by members and representatives of a Maasai community resettled due to geothermal developments in the Greater Olkaria Geothermal Area in Nakuru County, Kenya, who have requested that their identities remain confidential (hereafter referred to as the “Requesters”). The Panel and the Complaint...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Compliance Report: 34-Investigation Report (English)

...Requesters refer to: people forced from their homes by the cyclone of 1999 and more so by the flood of 2003; people forced to leave the area because of 21 Request for Inspection, ¶ 3-VIII. 22 Request for Inspection, ¶ 49. 23 Request for Inspection, ¶ 50. 24 Request for Inspection, ¶ 52. 25 Request for Inspection, ¶ 3-X. 26 Request for Inspection, ¶ 54. 27 Request for Inspection, ¶ 53. 28 Request for Inspection, ¶ 3-X. ...

Complaint > South-West Roads: Western Europe-Western China International Transit Corridor (CAREC-1b & 6b) (Second Request)

Eligibility: 74-Eligibility Report (English)

...Request in light of the eligibility criteria set forth in the Paragraph 9 of the 1999 Clarifications and is satisfied that the Request meets all the six eligibility criteria. 31. Criterion (a): ―The affected party consists of any two or more persons with common interests or concerns and who are in the borrower’s territory.‖ The Panel confirms that the Requesters are legitimate parties under the Resolution to submit a Request for Inspection to the Panel. The Request...

Complaint > Greater Beirut Water Supply Project

Eligibility: 71-Eligibility Report and Chairperson Statement (English)

...requesters, 52. Criterion (c): “The request does assert that its subject matter has been brought to Management's attention and that, in the Requester’s view, Management has failed to respond adequately demonstrating that it has followed or is taking steps to follow the Bank’s policies and procedures.” The Panel confirmed that the World Bank was aware of the concerns of the Requesters in advance of the Request for Inspection. The Requesters’ Representative corresponded s...

Complaint > Land Administration Project

Eligibility: 38-Eligibility Report (English)

...Requesters claim that both sets of procedures are inadequate because they do not respond to their social and political reality. In addition, in the Requesters’ view, conflicts that are decades old cannot be solved through mechanisms such as the Mesa Regional, 19 or 15 Request, p. 4. 16 Request, p. 4. 17 Request, p. 5. 18 Request, p. 7. 19 In this context the Requesters refer to the Mesa Regional as Mesa Interetnica. ...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Eligibility: 34-Eligibility Report (English)

...Request asserts “in substance that a serious violation by the Bank of its operational policies and procedures has or is likely to have material adverse effect upon the requesters.” The Request asserts that the Requesters have and will suffer severe adverse effects from the Project and that such effects result from the Bank’s failure to follow its operational policies and procedures. 71. The Request states, and the Requesters interviewed by the Pa...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation (English)

...Request for Inspection (the “Request”) related to the India: Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project (the “Project” or VPHEP). The Request was submitted by some residents of Chamoli district who state they reside on the banks of the Alaknanda River and are “going to be affected by the Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydro-electric Project”. They also state they do not want the river to be diverted or controlled in any way. Another Requester is a resident of Tehri district. All Requesters are residents of...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Eligibility: 44-Eligibility Report (English)

...Request for Inspection UGANDA: Private Power Generation Project (Proposed) 1. On March 5, 2007, the Inspection Panel (the “Panel”) received a Request for Inspection (the “Request”) dated March 1, 2007 related to the proposed Uganda: Private Power Generation Project (the “Project”). The Ugandan National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) and other local organizations and individuals (the “Requesters”) submitted the R...

Complaint > Natural Resource Management Project

Eligibility: 84-Eligibility Report and Recommendation (English)

...Request 13. What follows is a summary of the allegations included in the written Request received by the Panel. The full Request is attached to this Report as Annex I. 14. The Requesters state that they have suffered harm as a result of the Bank’s “failures and omissions” in the Project. The alleged harms are described below. 15. According to the Request, KFS has burned over 500 houses and property in Empoput forest since 2007 in the process of ...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, and Petroleum Environment Capacity Enhancement Project

Eligibility: 27-Eligibility Report (English)

...Request cites individual cases of dismissals consequent to working accidents, as simple “illustrations of the problems (…) of violations of the rights of populations by virtue of the project.”43 36 Request, at p. 7 ¶ 5(d). 37 Request, at p. 3 ¶ 3. 38 Request, at p. 5 ¶ 4. 39 Request, at p. 7 ¶ 5(a). 40 Request, at p. 7 ¶ 5(d). 41 Request, at p. 7 ¶ 5(f). 42 Request, at p. 5 ¶ 4. 43 Request, at p. 6 ¶ 4. During its visit to Cameroon, the Panel spent a subst...

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

Eligibility: Inspection Panel Report and Recommendation(English)

...Request; and Section VI contains the conclusion. Annex 1 presents the Requesters’ claims, together with Management’s detailed responses, in table form II. THE REQUEST 3. The Request for Inspection was submitted by two individuals living in and near Goma, North Kivu Province, who are connected to a quarry exploited by the Contractor. Attached to the Request are emails from the Requesters to the Inspection Panel. The Requesters have asked that their identit...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Filing: 16-Request for Inspection (English)

...request the Panel to recommend to the Bank's Executive Directors that an investigation of these matters be carried out in order to resolve the problems. As advised in your Operating Procedures, this request for Inspection is brief. We also are willing and able to provide supplemental information. We authorize you to make this request public, with the exception of Annex A. John Ackerly Bhuchung Tsering President ...

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

...Requesters also argue that PBS I, II and III constitute a single continuous program with only minor modifications at each phase, and that the manner in which PBS III is designed provides critical resources to woredas for their implementation of designated local level development activities, villagization being among them. 92 Request for Inspection: 1. 93 Request for Inspection: 5. 94 Request for Inspection: 5. 95 Request for Inspection: 6. 96 Request for Inspection: 6. 97 Reque...

Complaint > Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project

Management Response: 36-Management Response (English)

...Request for Inspection, IPN Request RQ05/1 (hereafter referred to as “the Request”), concerning the Cambodia Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project (“FCMCPP” or “the Project”), Credit No. 3365-KH, financed by the International Development Association (IDA). 2. Structure of the Text. The document contains the following sections: Section II provides information on the Request; Section III presents background information and analytical work on the Project, including the overall...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Eligibility: 62-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...Request for Inspection, IPN Request RQ 09/10 (hereafter referred to as “the Request”), concerning the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Smallholder Agriculture Development Project (“SADP” or “the Project”) financed by the International Development Association (IDA). The Request for Inspection was submitted by the Ahora/Kakandetta Pressure Group, affected customary land owners from Oro province and smallholders in one of the three Project areas (the “Requesters”). The Requesters asked that their identities ...

Complaint > Private Power Generation Project

Compliance Report: 44-Investigation Report (English)

...Requests After the Panel receives a Request for Inspection it is processed as follows: • The Panel decides whether the Request is prima facie not barred from Panel consideration. • The Panel registers the Request—a purely administrative procedure. • The Panel sends the Request to Bank Management, which has 21 working days to respond to the allegations of the Requesters. • The Panel then conducts a short 21 working-day assessment to determine the eligibility of the Requesters and ...

Complaint > Electricity Expansion Project

Management Action Plan: First Management Progress Report

...Request for Inspection submitted by members and representatives of a Maasai community resettled due to the Project-supported geothermal developments in the Greater Olkaria Geothermal Area was registered by the World Bank’s Inspection Panel (IPN Request RQ 14/06). The same concerns brought to the Panel were raised with the European Investment Bank Complaint Mechanism (EIB-CM) as the Project is co-financed by the EIB. 4. Management submitted its Response to the Request on December 19, 2014. ...

Complaint > Itaparica Resettlement and Irrigation Project

Management Response: Management Response

...Request for Inspection Panel Review of the Itaparica Resettlement and Irrigation Project (“thc Rcqucst’) filed by the Pólo :Sin&caì dos Trabalhadores Rurais do Submédio São Francisco on hlu& i 9. i 997 Under the Board Resolution establishing the Inspection Panel (Resolution 93-10, 9.’LC!Y3) thrs Request is ineligible for consideration because more than 95% of the Loan Proceeds had bcen disbursed as of the date the Request was received. However, in the interest of trsnswnc’.. the following ...

Complaint > NTPC I Power Generation Project

Compliance Report: Inspection Panel Investigation Report

...Request for Inspection 2. On May 1, 1997 the Panel received a Request for Inspection (“Request”) from a representative of people living in the project area. The claims in the Request focus on allegations of harm suffered as a result of non-compliance by the Bank with its policy on involuntary resettlement. The Chairman of the Panel registered the Request on May 2, 1997. Management Response 3. The Management Response (“Response”) to the Request was submitted to the Panel on June 3, 1997. ...