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MoU Between the United Nations Development Programme and Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone

Issues

Biodiversity

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on plant or animal species in the natural environment.

Complaints with this Issue: 134

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Cultural heritage

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on any type of tangible or intangible cultural heritage, including significant sites, unique environmental features, cultural knowledge, and traditional lifestyles.

Complaints with this Issue: 120

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Livelihoods

Description: Complaint raises concerns about impacts on the means by which people make a living, including wage-based income, trade and bartering, agriculture, fishing, foraging, and other natural-resource based means.

Complaints with this Issue: 345

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Pollution

Description: Complaint raises concerns about releases of pollutants related to the project, including hazardous or non-hazardous chemicals, minerals, metals, pathogens, odors, noise, vibration, radiation, light, and heat.

Complaints with this Issue: 229

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Water

Description: Complaint raises concerns about access to or availability of water. Concerns related to water pollution are not included.

Complaints with this Issue: 194

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Sectors

Community capacity and development

Description: Project relates to programs targeted at training, capacity-building, and/or enabling public participation for specific groups within the community.

Complaints in this Sector: 112

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Conservation and environmental protection

Description: Project relates to preservation or management of the natural environment, legal frameworks regarding environmental protection or pollution, and carbon sequestration or other climate change mitigation activities.

Complaints in this Sector: 62

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Regulatory Development

Description: Project relates specifically to development or reform of legal frameworks, including laws and regulations.

Complaints in this Sector: 169

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Description

The Complainant claims that the MoU represents a public intention by the UNDP to collaborate with the MMSEZ and that it has caused harm to communities and the environment because it acts as an endorsement of the MMSEZ by a UN entity, thus lending UN goodwill to a proposal which has otherwise faced public opposition in South Africa. The Complainant claims that the proposed activities in the MMSEZ "will have significant impacts on water use, air pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, sacred and heritage sites, and many other aspects of life for people living in the area." The Complainant further claims that "the agreement signed will not be of benefit for climate change mitigation, protection of biodiversity and pulls SA commitment to transition to a low carbon development backward."

Complaint Stages

Filing

June 7, 2022

Filing

Status:

Start Date: June 7, 2022

Registration

June 7, 2022 -

June 14, 2022

Registration

Status: Closed Without Output

Start Date: June 7, 2022

End Date: June 14, 2022

Eligibility

June 14, 2022 -

Nov. 11, 2022

Eligibility

Status: Closed With Output

Start Date: June 14, 2022

End Date: Nov. 11, 2022

Dispute Resolution

Not Undertaken

Dispute Resolution

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Not offered by mechanism, Dispute resolution was not an option in this case

Compliance Review

Nov. 11, 2022

Compliance Review

Status: In Progress

Start Date: Nov. 11, 2022

Has Compliance Report: No

Non-Compliance Found: No

Monitoring

Not Undertaken

Monitoring

Status: Not Undertaken

Explanation: Complaint not yet reached stage, Compliance Review in progress

Closed

Not Closed

Timeline

Involved Groups

Name Complaints Group Type
Additional CSOs 1 Local CSO