Complaint > Eco Oro-01/Bucaramanga

Filing: Complaint to the CAO, June 13, 2012

...request by the NGOs of the Province of Soto Santander within the process of requesting the Environmental License for the Angostura Project (Annex 1). 11 On June 2, 2011, the Governor of Santander, Horacio Serpa, and Assembly President Roberto Schmalbach invited the municipal authorities, council members and leaders of Soto Norte, and the Comité por la Defensa del Paramo de Santurbán, the CAS, the CDMB, and other social organizations, to set up a work table to seek alternatives for mu...

Complaint > Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance

Filing: 100-Request for Inspection

...request that the Inspection Panel keep the Complainants and their representatives updated on all steps of the Inspection Panel process through correspondence with members of the Collective, the Clinic and Accountability Counsel, whose contact information is included at the end of this complaint. We also request that the Inspection Panel keep all annexes attached to this Request confidential. Only the Request itself may be posted and shared publicly. 2 The EI-TAF is a multi-donor trust fund, ma...

Complaint > Paravani Hydro Power Plant

Monitoring: Monitoring report V

...requested that the Bank Management discloses the flooding risk assessment and present it to all interested stakeholders. Besides that, the Complainant has requested that the Bank Management explains what mitigation measures are determined in the project in order to avoid eventual flooding in Khertvisi Village, besides the fact that the locals would be informed by Turkish authorities when such floods occur. Finally, the Complainant urges that the Bank insures the Client to disclose all materials ...

Complaint > Dariali HPP

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report

...President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, calling for suspension of large and other hydro-power development projects, including Dariali HPP, that pose a serious threat to the environment and livelihoods; December 21, 2011; See In Georgian: http://www.greenalt.org/webmill/data/file/Letter_to_president_HPP_geo.pdf In English: http://www.greenalt.org/webmill/data/file/Letter_to_president_HPPs_ENG.pdf 5. Green Alternative issued and disseminated the fact sheet “How Tergi River is Be...

Complaint > BTC Pipeline-26/Krstanisi

Appraisal: English

...President has the discretion to request the compliance arm of CAO, CAO Compliance, to appraise the concerns raised in the complaint for a compliance audit of IFC or MIGA. Alternatively, a compliance audit can be initiated by request from the President of the World Bank Group or the senior management of IFC or MIGA. A CAO Compliance appraisal is a preliminary investigation to determine whether the CAO should proceed to a compliance audit of IFC or MIGA. Through CAO Compliance appraisals, the...

Complaint > Altain Khuder debt & equity

Monitoring: Compliance Review Monitoring Report I

...request that this item is closed. operations, EBRD’s monitoring and reporting requirements would be re-established and an assessment of current status against the ESAP commitments would need to be undertaken. Under such a development, EBRD would promptly request and implement monitoring events that would likely include a site visit, meetings with site personnel, and ...

Complaint > Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance

Registration: 100-Notice of Non-Registration(English)

...Request for Inspection of the Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance (P144931) supported by the World Bank through a Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Facility (EI-TAF) trust fund. The Request for Inspection is included as Attachment 1 to this Memorandum. Request for Inspection 2. The Request was submitted by Kolektif Jistis Min an Ayiti (the Haiti Mining Justice Collective), a "Collective" of Haitian civil society organizations, with both nati...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Management Response: Management Response (English)

...Request for Inspection 6. On August 3, 2012, the Inspection Panel registered a Request for Inspection of the India: Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project. The Request for Inspection was submitted by residents of Chamoli district in the State of Uttarakhand, who have requested that their identity remain confidential, and by Dr. Bharat Jhunjhunwala (the “Requesters”). 7. The Requesters claim that the VPHEP supported by the Bank: (i) does not sufficiently consider alleged adverse i...

Complaint > Natural Resource Management Project

Management Response: 84-Management Response (English)

...Request vi. The Request for Inspection was submitted by individuals from Sengwer communities in the Cherangany Hills in the western highlands of Kenya (hereafter referred to as the “Re- questers”). The Requesters have asked for confidentiality. vii. The Request raises a broad array of concerns regarding indigenous groups’ land rights and tenure, including historical, unresolved land issues. Specifically the Request refers to a num- ber of incidents between 2007 and 2011, which the...

Complaint > Multiphase Development Infrastructure Program: Support Production in Entre Rios

Appraisal: Issuance of Assessment Report

...Request was received by the Ombudsperson on 20 September 2010. The objective of the assessment process was: (a) to gather further information on the claim submitted to the ICIM and its possible ramifications for project implementation, and (b) to explore whether a dialogue phase should be initiated and flexible, consensus‐oriented methods used to address the substance of the Request. Primary concerns of Requesters: (i) lack of access to information; (ii) irregularities in the consultation proces...

Complaint > Southern Transport Development Project (STDP)

Monitoring: Annual Monitoring Report [PDF]

...request for compliance review of the Southern Transport Development Project1 (STDP) in Sri Lanka. The request was submitted by the Joint Organization of the Affected Communities of the Colombo Matara Highway. The CRP determined that the request was eligible and the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) authorized a compliance review. The CRP reviewed and investigated the request and submitted its findings and recommendations in a final report to the Board in June 2005 whic...

Complaint > Education Sector Reform Project

Filing: Complaint

...President of ADB (RRP). All requests from the local NGOs regarding information were rejected or not responded. Experts believe that education as an institution in Tajikistan is in real danger now and the culturisation and socialisation through these curriculums will retard the growth of a nation backward. As reasons for the project failure civil society organisations name: 1) A major chunk of the project finance went to training of teachers, school directors and government officials. After ...

Complaint > CAREC Transport Corridor I Investment Program

Dispute Resolution: Final Report (English)

...request for two cattle passages and a bridge or underpass for agricultural machinery, which they had requested in earlier consultations. At the time, they were concerned about access to grazing pastures; the safe passage of agricultural equipment; adequate means of water flow from the south side to the north side of the road, where the village is located; accessing the highway; and obtaining information about the project. OSPF concluded that there was reasonable probability that the complai...

Complaint > Agroinvestbank Equity Investment

Filing: Complaint

...requested then that information will not be supplied unless permission is given by the entity concerned, in this case AIB. Has such an approach been made by the EBRD to AIB and if so what was AIB’s response? If no approach was made, we would like to know why, and we would respectfully request that AIB be approached for permission to disclose the information and documentation requested. 11. Result Mr Schonberger hopes to achieve by submitting this complaint to the PCM Given the events t...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Eligibility: 60-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...Request for Inspection, IPN Request RQ 09/08 (the Request), concerning the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project (the Project or LMAP) financed by the International Development Association (the Bank). The Request was submitted by the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) on behalf of communities claiming to have been affected by the Project (the Requesters). 2. The Board of Executive Directors and the President of the Bank were notified by the Panel of receipt of the ...

Complaint > Private Sector Development and Competitiveness Project (First Request)

Management Action Plan: 54-Second Management Response and Report on Progress (English)

...Requests for Inspection. The Board approved the Panel’s recommendation on June 11, 2009. 3. On January 7, 2010, the Inspection Panel registered a third Request for Inspec- tion, IPN Request RQ10/01 (hereafter referred to as “the Request”), concerning the PSDC, which is the subject of this response. 4. This third Request for Inspection was submitted by Mr. Freddy Kituba Kimbwel and Mr. Timothée Lobe Bangudu, on behalf of the “Intersyndicale,” which represents former employees o...

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

Management Response: 102 - Management Response (English)

...Request vii. On March 13, 2015, the Inspection Panel registered a Request for Inspection (IPN Request RQ 15/03, hereafter referred to as “the Request”), concerning the Mongolia: Min- ing Infrastructure Investment Support Project (P118109) and Mining Infrastructure Invest- ment Support Project – Additional Financing (P145439) (the MINIS Project), financed by the International Development Association (the Bank). viii. The Request for Inspection was submitted by community representatives a...

Complaint > Aconcagua-01/Santa Barbara

Eligibility: English

...President of the World Bank Group, and its mandate is to assist in addressing complaints from people affected by projects in a manner that is fair, objective, and constructive and to enhance the social and environmental outcomes of projects in which IFC and MIGA play a role. In the first instance, complaints are responded to by the CAO‟s Ombudsman function. This assessment report is a public document that summarizes the complaint, stakeholder views expressed during the CAO‟s assessment phase, an...

Complaint > Lydian Intl3-01/Gndevaz & Jermuk

Filing: Complaint regarding Lydian Amulsar project

...request. If you have a questions, please contact with Inga Zarafyan, president of “EcoLur” Informational NGO. E-mail: ingazarafyan@gmail.com, info@ecolur.org, sosamulsar@gmail.com Tel: +374 91 92 12 64 mob. 18 http://ecolur.org/en/news/mining/donvt-disturb-us-to-make-money-photos/3907/ 19 http://ecolur.org/en/news/mining/ecolur-open-letter-to-quotgeoteamquot-cjsc/3924/ 20 See open letter to IFC http://ecolur.org/en/news/mining/public-calling-for-ifc-stop-amulsar-project/5262/

Complaint > Termoelectrica del Golfo Project

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

Translation from the Original Request in Spanish ELLIS J. JUAN. AVENIDA PASEO DE LA REFORMA NO. 222, 11TH FLOOR. COLONIA JUÁREZ, DELEGACIÓN CUAUHTÉMOC, MEXICO CITY, FED. DIST. POSTAL CODE 6600. TEL. (55) 9138-6200DR. INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (IDB). MEXICO CITY, FED. DIST., OFFICE. TO THE ATTENTION OF THE OFFICE OF THE MICI. INDEPENDENT CONSULTATION AND INVESTIGATION MECHANISM OFFICCE. (sic) ...