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 > Low-Income Neighborhood Improvement Program - Habitar Brasil

Dispute Resolution: Issuance of Consultation Phase Report

...unknown to the Municipal Government when signing the agreement. Given these facts, which made it legally unviable to use the land area in question, the Mayor’s Office explored other alternative locations for building the dwellings. 4.11 On 16 December 2013, the Mayor’s Office, through the then Director of the Housing Department, presented additional documentation on a new option: (a) a planialtimetric cadastral ...

Complaint > Alcazar Energy-01/Jordan

Compliance Review: COMPLIANCE APPRAISAL: SUMMARY OF RESULTS

...unknown at the time of investment, the 2013 Environmental and Social Review Procedure (ESRP) provides additional guidance on IFC’s E&S due diligence: “IFC’s review will take into account the full range of operations undertaken by the entity in which IFC plans to invest, including any significant operations undertaken by its subsidiaries and companies for which it has management control…[IFC’s] review involves the investigation of the capacity, maturity, and reliability of the client’s E&S ...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Compliance Report: 40-Investigation Report (English)

...unknown. Such an analysis would have helped to prevent the lack of transparency in the way compensation payments were made. The Panel further observes that the number of displaced persons reported in the RAP was determined using a figure for “average” household size which the RAP itself notes is “surprisingly low.” The Panel expert determined that the size of the displaced population seems to be underestimated as a result of the methodology used for their identification. ...

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 > Land Management and Administration Project

Management Response: 60-Management Response (English)

...unknown”. This appears to be the classification that is generally used when State Public Land is encountered during the titling process as well as when land is subject to a dispute that cannot be resolved during the titling process at the field level. • On the basis of information currently available, it seems that only one title was issued in the name of the State as a result of the systematic adjudication process. Management understands that one title wa...

Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Management Response: 40-Management Report and Recommendation (English)

...unknown. 4 Management Report and Recommendation - The size of the displaced population seems to be underestimated as a result of the methodology used for their identification. - Bank Management failed to ensure that the Sponsor performed an adequate analysis of socio-economic risks to vulnerable people. This does not comply with OP 4.12, and denied these people protections provi...

Complaint > Power VI Project

Management Response: Management Response (English)

...unknown significant areas t o be avoided. L An overview of the proposed development activities, mitigative measures and residual impact of the rating for each parameter of the human environment is presented in Table 2. ' \ Environmental Impact Assessment of the Proposed Songo Songo December 19. Gas Development Project ...

Complaint > Maritsa East Mines (BEH Bond Issue)

Eligibility: Eligibility Assessment Report for PSI

...unknowns are destroying us! So far since 2010 all meetings - with Maritsa East Mines, the administration of Radnevo Municipality and others - are at our request. Maritsa East Mines rarely wished to meet with the public and solve the problems arising from coal mining. After 2010 Maritsa East Mines bought up a large part of the agricultural land for the Troyanovo-North field, and the owners who refused to sell were forced to expropriation in accordance with the established order through the State ...

Complaint > Red Sea - Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study Program

Eligibility: 76-Report and Recommendation (English)

...unknown and is extremely difficult to model and predict.” The TOR adds that: “The magnitude and dynamics of the change in these characteristics (e.g. rate of mixing, surface water density, chemical composition, water temperature, rate of evaporation, mineral precipitation, biological activity, depth of stratification, etc.,) which are all interrelated, can only be determined following careful limnological modeling based on deep in...

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 > Improvement of Health Services Delivery at Mulago Hospital and in the City of Kampala, Uganda

Dispute Resolution: IRM Problem-Solving Progress Report

...unknown subdivided Block 208 plot 73 into plots 1035 and 1036. Plot 1035 was created under Instrument NO 75061 – dated 30/9/1974 in the names of F.G Sembeguya Plot 1036 was created under instrument no 75060 - dated 30/9/1974- in the names of Mrs B. J Sembeguya Both plots have never had titles issued for them until fraudulent ones made in 2005 and sold to KCCA. Plot 1035 comprised the hospital and its buildings, while plot 1036 comprised of the garden and house. 27 KCC...

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 > Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project

Eligibility: 19-Eligibility Report (English)

...unknown;11 these discoveries along hyacinth- free rocky shores indicated that it was unlikely that the hyacinth was playing any significant role in the survival of cichlid fish species. On the other hand, the hyacinth was implicated in increases in dangerous diseases such as bilharzia and malaria, and its negative economic effects were large; and (d) the proportion of the nutrients in their vicinity taken up by the hyacinth was unknown, but the fact that...

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

Other: 54-Socio-Economic Evaluation (English)

...unknowns regarding whether such a shift in perspective will succeed for those who have not, to date, succeeded on their own; any reinsertion program would need to have realistic expectations of success. The dependence streak runs deep, and permeates many a PVs' reinsertion project. Most projects were discussed in terms of the investments they would require (including tractors for farming), but rarely in terms of revenue streams. There may be ...

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 > Empresa Electrica Pangue S.A.-02/Upper Bio-Bio Watershed

Eligibility: English

...unknown impacts. Regarding the Pehuenche communities, the IFC investment team announced the creation of a Pehuenche controlled Foundation that would compensate for the social, ecological and cultural impacts of the Pangue dam. Six months before the presentation to the Board ENDESA was well advanced with the Ralco project, something Bank management, according to written documentation and statements, was definitely aware of. In June of 1992 ENDESA already had in its hands...

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

Compliance Report: 103-Inspection Panel Investigation Report(English)

...unknown. The evacuees in temporary shelters told the Panel they wanted to resettle in the New Shkabaj resettlement site along with other members of their former community of Hade. 131. Panel Finding. The Panel finds the Bank was not involved in the 2004/05 emergency evacuation of a part of Hade Village, nor was it involved in the subsequent resettlement process, and thus is not responsible for the harm arising from it. The Panel understands the evacuation decision was taken by UNMIK and re...

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

Agreement: Full Report

...Unknown1 Insecticide  Skin, eye, respiratory irritant1 NSEL BASSIANA 2010 bassiana (fungus) 26 Table 3: Summary of Agrichemicals Currently used at ISA and their Potential Health Effects (Continued) Agrichemical Period Active Vapor Pressure Boiling Point Use Health Haza...