Complaint > Panama Canal Expansion Program

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...unknown benefits they could offer the world. A very recent example of how devastating the introduction of non-native sea creatures into a marine habitat can be is demonstrated by the disastrous escape of “lion-fish” into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida aquarium as a result of Hurricane Andrew. This is not a trivial matter of no consequence. Lion- fish have spread up the eastern seaboard of the USA, into the Gulf of Mexico, and out to the Islands of the Caribbean, wiping out species as they've ...

Complaint > Power Sector Generation and Restructuring Project

Project Document: 46-Implementation Completion Report Review

...unknown engineering designs for which the Government/KESH are now in the process of hiring an engineering firm to prepare design and bidding documents with plans to issue them in September 2013. Additionally, there is a high risk that the plant's off shore lines (cooling water intake and fuel line) will be increasingly vulnerable to ever more severe weather events. The project was not in commission to address the summer 2012 drought, for instance. Also, there is no more project funding ava...

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 > Agrokasa-01/Ica

Compliance Report: CAO Audit of IFC Investments in Agribusiness in the Ica Valley, Peru, February 22, 2011

...unknown. In particular, the impacts of the proposed water transfer within the aquifer are not assessed. The ESRS notes Agrokasa’s ongoing commitment to reduce water consumption; however, this is somewhat meaningless in terms of impact without a better understanding of the aquifer baseline, which may well be deteriorating at a significant and wholly unsustainable rate. The basis for a B categorization is therefore heavily predicated on the production of an adequate EA and its disclosure. T...

Complaint > None

Eligibility: DOC.R60-16: Chair's Summary of the Board Compliance Review Committee and CRP's Eligibility Report (with Management's Response) [PDF]

...unknown third parties. ix. These concerns and fears of the complainants are not unfounded because the CLAC (supported by TA Phase III) also recognized these dangers and is hoping to propose legislative amendments for consideration by Parliament, which if adopted, may help address some of these concerns. Among others, the amendments would require the written consent of customary landowners before ...

Complaint > Greater Beirut Water Supply Project

Management Response: 71-Management Commissioned Studies-Project Cost Estimates, Financial and Economic Analyses

...unknown, and Bank experience with high dams in karsitic environments signaled significant geological risks and a high risk that the pre-feasibility cost estimates would need significant upward revision46; and (iii) additional raw water sources were known to be needed in a second stage project, and moving forward with the Awali option did not foreclose later development of the Damour. OP 10.04 asks that Bank teams, when considering alternatives, take starting dates into account (para. 3). It...

Complaint > Mine Closure and Social Mitigation Project

Management Response: 39-Management Response (English)

...unknown to the mine closure contractor until the slippage. As a result, a modification to the waste dump closure design was required. A series of options was considered and a risk assessment was conducted by international experts in 2003. The designer prepared a new design and submitted it to the CGMC for review and approval in December 2003. The modification included a requirement to move at least 43,000m3 of material from the dump, re-profiling of the upper flanks of the waste dump, and ...

Complaint > Promoting Economic Use of Customary Land and Grant No. 0392 (SAM): Samoa Agribusiness Support Project

Eligibility: DOC.R60-16: Chair's Summary of the Board Compliance Review Committee and CRP's Eligibility Report (with Management's Response)

...unknown third parties. ix. These concerns and fears of the complainants are not unfounded because the CLAC (supported by TA Phase III) also recognized these dangers and is hoping to propose legislative amendments for consideration by Parliament, which if adopted, may help address some of these concerns. Among others, the amendments would require the written consent of customary landowners before a leasehold interest could be mortgaged. 32 The proposed amendments will also protect the righ...

Complaint > Bujagali-02/Bujagali Falls

Eligibility: Bujagali Hydropower Project - Haplochromine Habitat Study, November 2001

...unknown (Lates niloticus) belongs are listed below. Note that the family name always strictly lithophilic cichlids (Seehausen, 1996; Seehausen et al., 1998). Prior ends in idea and that the generic and species names are always italicised. to the discovery of this rock-dwelling assemblage, the haplochromine flock of Lake Victoria was believed to be quite distinct from those of Lakes ...

Complaint > Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited-01/Leon and Chinandega

Agreement: English

...unknown. Job characteristics likely vary with respect to the potential for many different exposures of interest, such as heat stress, agrichemicals, metals, silica, and   4   leptospirosis. If we were to observe no differences in biomarkers of kidney injury and CKD by job category, this would suggest that the primary CKD risk factors are not occupational. However, if there are significant differen...

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 > Sao Jose dos Campos Urban Structuring Program

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown Environmental impact assessments, strategic Prior to the analysis Relatório de Avaliação Not environmental mission: Portuguese No Ambiental disclosed assessments, or 11-19 March 2008 other environmental analyses ...

Complaint > Sao Jose dos Campos Urban Structuring Program

Compliance Report: Publication of Panel Report

...unknown Environmental impact assessments, strategic Prior to the analysis Relatório de Avaliação Not environmental mission: Portuguese No Ambiental disclosed assessments, or 11-19 March 2008 other environmental analyses ...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-01/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...unknown   60,000  T/mth   Medical   250,000  for  medicine   unknown   20,000  T/mth   expenses   Travel     800,000   unknown   unknown   Veterinary  care   50,000     unknown   80,000  T/year   Livestock ...

Complaint > Oyu Tolgoi-02/Khanbogd

Agreement: MDT/IEP Final Report - January 2017 - English

...unknown   60,000  T/mth   Medical   250,000  for  medicine   unknown   20,000  T/mth   expenses   Travel     800,000   unknown   unknown   Veterinary  care   50,000     unknown   80,000  T/year   Livestock ...

Complaint > Amaggi Expansion-01/IFC Executive Vice President Request

Compliance Report: English

...unknown soybean farmers, and Amaggi’s capacity to conduct soybean supplier due-diligence was unclear; ƒ That the project would enable Amaggi to establish a presence in growth areas in eastern Mato Grosso. Displacement of less profitable agricultural activities would indirectly lead to conversion of natural cerrado (Brazilian savannah) or forests to soybean cultivation; ƒ That IFC’s categorization of the project did not take due account of publicly available information ...

Complaint > None

Policy Document: Environmental and Social Complaints Mechanism: Rules of Procedure (ROP)

...unknown when the Complaint was previously submitted. If the Complaint requires a compliance audit by AFD, an examination conducted by another mechanism does not mean that the Complaint cannot be handled by AFD, in accordance with the present Rules of Procedure, since it questions the way in which AFD itself has complied with its E&S Risk Management Procedure; - Regarding dispute resolution, the subject of the Complaint has already been settled in the context of court or out-of-court mediat...

Complaint > Land Management and Administration Project

Eligibility: 60-Eligibility Report (English)

...unknown”, which seems to be the classification that is generally used for State Public Land in a titling process. However, Management also adds that based on information it gathered, only the villages around BKL area were demarcated and no demarcation of individual parcels took place. Moreover, only one title (for a public gas depot) was issued in the 12 Management Response, ¶ 95. 13 Management Response, ¶ 48. 14 Management Response, ¶ 48. ...

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 ...