Complaint > West African Gas Pipeline Project

Registration: 40-Notice of Registration (English)

...Request for Inspection GHANA: West African Gas Pipeline Project (IDA Guarante No. B-006-0-GH) On April 27, 2006, the Inspection Panel (the “Panel”) received a Request for Inspection (the “Request”), dated the same day, related to the Ghana : West African Gas Pipeline Project (the “Project”). The Request was submitted by the Ifesowapo Host Communities Forum of the West African Gas Pipeline Project ...

Complaint > Second Urban Environment Sanitation Project

Management Action Plan: 49-Third Management Progress Report (English)

...Request for Inspection, IPN Request RQ07/06, concerning the Second Urban Environmental Sanitation Project (UESP II) in Ghana. The Request was submitted by the Accra-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) on behalf of the Agyemankata community, which lives in the area known as Kwabenya within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (the Requesters). The Request focused on one of the sub- components of the overall Project, namely the proposed Kwabenya sanitary landfill. The Requesters cl...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Registration: 62-Notice of Registration (English)

...Request in the Inspection Panel Register. Please note that 4 the Panel's registration is an administrative procedure and it implies no judgment whatsoever concerning the merits of the Request for Inspection. Until further notice, all communications with the Requesters in connection with the Request will be sent to Mr. Damien Ase, as the representative of the Requesters. As provided in paragraph 18 of the IDA Resolution tha...

Complaint > Eskom Investment Support Project

Registration: 65-Notice of Registration (English)

...Request for Inspection (the “Request”) related to the proposed Republic of South Africa: Eskom Investment Support Project (the “Project”). The Request was submitted by groundWork and Earthlife Africa, two NGOs from South Africa, on behalf of representatives of community members in the Project area (the “Requesters”). The Requesters state that they are likely to suffer direct impacts from the Project and its associated facilities. The Requesters have asked that their...

Complaint > Second National Water Development Project - AdditionalFinancing

Filing: 86-Notice of Receipt and Decision Not to Register the Request for Inspection (English)

...Request Introduction In accordance with paragraph 17 of the Resolution' establishing the Inspection Panel, I hereby inform you that on May 22, 2013, the Inspection Panel (the "Panel") received a Request for Inspection related to the Malawi: Second National Water Development Proj ect - Additional Financing (P I24486). The Request for Inspection is included as i\ttaclunent I. The Request The Request was submitted by Ci...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: Second Management Progress Report

...Request for Inspection of the TSDP. As some of the issues raised in the Request had not previously been communicated to Management, the Panel did not register the Request, to provide Management with an opportunity to address the concerns. On September 11, 2015, the Panel received another Request for Inspection (the Request), raising similar concerns. The Request was registered on September 28, 2015. The Request raised serious allegations, including road workers’ sexual relations with minor ...

Complaint > Paraguay/Argentina Reform Project for the Water and Telecommunication Sectors, SEGBA V Power Distribution Project (Yacyreta)

Eligibility: 26-Eligibility Report (English)

...request for Inspection, IPN Request RQ02/1 (hereafter referred to as Request II) concerning the Yacyretá Hydroelectric Project. This is the second time the Yacyretá Project has been the subject of a Request for Inspection before the Inspection Panel. The first time was in September 1996 and the Request then (INSP/R96-2, hereafter referred to as Request I) raised issues similar, often even identical, to those raised now in Request II. YACYRETÁ PROJECT BACKGROUND 2. Yacyretá is a multi-billi...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, Management of the Petroleum Economy Project, and Petroleum Sector Management Capacity Building Project

Compliance Report: 22-Investigation Report (English)

...REQUESTS When the Panel receives a Request for Inspection, it is processed as follows: 1. The Panel decides whether the Request is prima facie3 not barred from its consideration. 2. The Panel registers the Request—a purely administrative procedure. 3. The Panel sends the Request to Bank Management, which has 21 working days to respond to the allegations of the Requesters. 4. On receipt of Management’s response, the Panel conducts a short (21 working-day) assessment to determine the eli...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Management Response: 89-Management Response and Addendum (English)

...Request vi. The Request for Inspection was submitted by three NGOs on behalf of others who declare they live in project regions. The Requesters claim that RESP II has harmed those they represent and their communities through the inadequacy of the project’s measures to prevent Bank funds from contributing to “Government orchestrated forced labor” in the iii Uzbekistan cotton sector. The Requesters claim that the Bank is noncompliant with ...

Complaint > Urban Development Project and Douala Infrastructure Development Project (not registered)

Registration: 50-Notice of Non Registration

...Requests if he or she finds that the Request i s without doubt manifestly outside the Panel’s mandate. Because the Projects closed, respectively, on June 30, 1988, and June 30, 1994, the Panel i s not registering the Request in the Panel’s Register, and i s advising the Requesters o f this decision. In making this determination, the Panel notes the many significant concerns stated by the Requesters, described above, as well as the perception o f the Requesters that a promise to deal with their p...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Management Action Plan: First Management Progress Report

...Request had not previously been communicated to Management, the Panel did not register the Request, to provide Management with an opportunity to address the concerns. 5. On September 11, 2015, the Panel received another Request for Inspection (“the Request”) from three representatives of the Bigodi and Nyabubale-Nkingo communities in Uganda (“the Requesters”), raising similar concerns to those set forth in the December 19, 2014 Request. The Request was registered on September 28, 201...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Registration: 69-Notice of Registration (English)

...Request for Inspection relating to the Development Forestry Sector Management Project (the "Project"). The Request was submitted by the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), acting on behalf of the communities of Central River Cess Statutory District, River Cess County, Liberia (the "Requesters"). The Request for Inspection includes: i) a letter, dated July 31, 2010, signed by 54 representatives of the communities of Central River Cess Statutory Distr...

Complaint > Santa Fe Infrastructure Project and Provincial Road Infrastructure Project, 1st Request

Filing: 42-First Request for Inspection (English)

...Presidents of the Communes of the localities of San Agustín and Franck. Receipt acknowledgement via e-mail. Photocopy of reception of faxes sent Chateaux Blanc, August 2006 Mr. Francisco Godano President of the Commune of San Agustín Province of Santa Fe The undersigned, in our capacity as owners, residents and workers of the locality called Chateaux Blanc hereby request that you exert your good offices before the provincia...

Complaint > Bangladesh Modern Food Storage Facilities Project

Registration: 116-Notice of Non-Registration-13Mar2017

...Request on its website on January 6, 2017,4 and in accordance with its Operating Procedures, conducted its due diligence by reviewing the information contained in the Request and Project documents. To better understand the Project and the issues raised in the Request, the Panel communicated with the Requesters' representative several times between December 2016 and February 2017. 13. The Panel met with Bank Management on February 14, 2017, and learned that household silos have not b...

Complaint > Second Urban Environment Sanitation Project

Management Action Plan: 49-Second Management Progress Report (English)

...Request for Inspection, IPN Request RQ07/06 (hereafter referred to as “the Request”), concerning the Second Urban Environmental Sanitation Project (UESP II) in Ghana, financed by IDA Credit No. 3889-GH. The Request for Inspection was submitted by the Accra-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) on behalf of the Agyemankata community, which lives in the area known as Kwabenya within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (hereafter referred to as the “Requesters”). The Request focused ...

Complaint > Madhya Pradesh Water Sector Restructuring Project (2010) (First Request)

Eligibility: 72-Eligibility Report (English)

...Requesters and that the Panel would await further developments aimed at reaching a satisfactory resolution of the problems raised in the First Request.2 3. On July 16, 2011, the Panel received a second Request for Inspection dated July 6, 2011 (hereinafter, “the Request”) related to the Project. The Request was filed by the same Requesters, Messrs. Ram Sharan Gupta and Dinesh Kumar Singhal, who are both residents of Gwalior Town. The Requesters s...

Complaint > Parana Biodiversity Project

Eligibility: 41-Eligibility Report (English)

...Requesters asked that the March 2006 letter with accompanying annex be considered an integral part of the Request. The Request for Inspection is attached as Annex I to this Report. 2. On July 11, 2006, the Panel notified the Board of Executive Directors and the World Bank’s President that it received the Request, which constituted Registration of the Request under the Panel’s Operating Procedures. 2 The Panel received Bank Management R...

Complaint > Uttaranchal Decentralized Watershed Development Project

Management Response: 45-Management Response (English)

...Request RQ07/02). Management asks that the Panel consider this Request ineligible for investigation because: (i) The Request’s subject matter was not brought to Management ’s attention before the Request was filed. The Requesters contacted the Inspection Panel on March 7, 2007. They subsequently sent an email to the Country Director on March 17, 2007, requesting a meeting. As the Country Director was on leave the Requesters received an automated ...

Complaint > Paraguay/Argentina Reform Project for the Water and Telecommunication Sectors, SEGBA V Power Distribution Project (Yacyreta)

Management Action Plan: 26-Inspection Panel Review of Management Progress Report

...request that EBY update the screening process for non-dam related c i v i l works to include a quality assurance protocol. Bank will continue to monitor engineering supervision and contractor insurance practices and will request improvements, as necessary. Bank will monitor the system EBY has in place to supervise c i v i l works; request that contracts continue to include required clauses; and. continue to pay careful attention to construction deficiencies.'* Progress During 90-day Peri...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, Management of the Petroleum Economy Project, and Petroleum Sector Management Capacity Building Project

Filing: 22-Request for Inspection (English)

...President of the World Bank himself and various Bank departments to draw their special attention to the problems described above (see examples of related correspondence and documentation). Furthermore, Deputy Ngarlejy YORONGAR, our constitutionally elected representative, took part in the following activities in 1999: Ø Seminars organized by the World Bank in Paris, chaired by Mr. Jean-Louis Sarbib, Vice President of the World Bank for Africa, and by Mr. Patrice Dufour, the Represe...