Complaint > Parana Biodiversity Project

Filing: 41-Request for Inspection (English)

...request for the World Bank Paraná Biodiversity Project—ID P070552—which is supported by GEF, and has the Government of the State of Paraná as executor. To substantiate this request for inspection, we refer to the letter and annexes [in its entirety] sent to the World Bank by the Atlantic Forest NGOs Network (letter 019/06/RMA/CG dated March 21, 2006) and signed by its General Coordinator, Ms. Miriam Prochnow. We hereby respectfully request that the above- mentioned correspondence together ...

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...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 28

...President, Democratic Republic of Congo, S/2002/1146, New with four ‘Vice-Presidents’ drawn from York 16th October 2002. 2 UN Security Council, Final Report of the Panel of the rebel groups. In June 2003, a Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural ‘transitional government’ was Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the established; national elections are...

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 > 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 > Quilleco Hydropower Project

Eligibility: 67-Final Report and Recommendation (English)

...Request for Inspection, which was complemented by clarifications received on May 26, 2010 (hereinafter the “Request”). 1 The Request was submitted by residents of Tucapel, Santa Bárbara, Ralco Lepoy, and Concepción (hereinafter the “Requesters”) in the Biobío region of Chile. The Requesters asked in their correspondences that the Panel keep their names confidential. The Panel registered the Request on June 18, 2010. 2. The Request alleges harm caused by a number of...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Eligibility: 89 - Final Eligibility Report (English)

...President of the Association of Human Rights in Central Asia, and Ms. Umida Niyazova, Head of the Uzbek- German Forum for Human Rights, on their behalf and on behalf of the signatories to the Request (hereinafter "the Requesters"). The latter requested the Panel to keep their identities confidential "due to concern related to [their] personal safety." 2. The Panel registered the Request on September 23, 2013, Bank Management submitted its Response to the Request on November 6, 2013,...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Filing: 89-Request for Inspection (English and Russian)

...request) with the World Bank on our behalf. With our consent, these organizations will help prepare the claim and will take the lead in liaising with the Inspection Panel and Management of the World Bank. Sincerely, Claimants (requesters) with signatures Jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj j...

Complaint > Phase 1B of Lesotho Highlands Water Project, 1st Request

Eligibility: 12-Eligibility Report (English)

...Request for Inspection (“Request”). Annex 1 contains the Request. Annex 2 contains the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (“Bank”) Management Response to the Request. 1. INTRODUCTION On April 23, 1998, a group of residents (Requesters) from Alexandra in the Gauteng province of the Republic of South Africa (RSA) delivered a Request to the World Bank office in Pretoria. The Panel received the Request in Washington, D.C on May 6, 1998. The Requ...

Complaint > Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Clean-Up Project, First Request

Management Action Plan: 47-Third Management Progress Report (English)

...Requester’s claims affected as a result of the 2007 demolitions. The report also provides information on the implementation of the restructured Project approved by the Board of Executive Directors on March 22, 2010. The Bank continues to provide assistance for an independently observed case-by- case review before the Albanian Judiciary of the Requesters’ claims. All nine Requesters have filed cases in Tirana District Court. The cases started at different times between December 2009 and...

Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...requested that the FDA allow a shipment of wood samples to Morocco.19 The FDA refused to allow the shipment as they could not establish that it was legal. However, customs gave permission for the export nonetheless. The company made a pre-shipment inspection request and payment to the Bureau of Veritas (Bivac), which was contracted to inspect the cargo.N The description of the contents of the shipment was changed by the exporter, Cissee Abdoulaye, to scrap metal, although at that time there...

Complaint > Coal Sector Mitigation Project and Coal Sector Rehabitation Project

Eligibility: 23-Eligibility Report (English)

...Request for Inspection.”21 18 Id. at ¶ 52. 19 Id. at ¶¶ 88-89. 20 The need for an extension was apparently envisaged as early as February 1999. CIL requested it on March 26, 2001, and the Government formally requested an extension in April. 21 “Management Response” at ¶ 96. 6 F. ELIGIBILITY 29. For purposes of determining the eligibility of the Request and the Requesters, the Panel reviewed ...

Complaint > Second Urban Environment Sanitation Project

Management Action Plan: 49-First 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 > Land Management and Administration Project

Filing: 60-Request for Inspection (English)

...requested the urgent intervention of the World Bank management in their case. On 14 August, a letter was sent by the Cambodian Housing Rights Task Force to the World Bank Country Director and LMAP Task Team Leader requesting clarification about the applicability of the LMAP Environmental and Social Guidelines and the Resettlement Policy Framework to the Boeung Kak case. This letter again requested that the World Bank intervene urgently in the Boeung Kak case due to the eviction notice issued ...

Complaint > Lagos Drainage and Sanitation Project

Filing: 13-Request for Inspection (English)

...request that the Inspection Panel recommend to the Bank's Executive Directors that an investigation of these matters be expeditiously and comprehensively carried out in order to remedy these violations. As advised in your Operating Procedures, this Request for Inspection is brief SERAC can provide you with more particulars including documents, audio recordings, and videotapes should you require additional information in support of this Request. DATE: ...

Complaint > Giza North Power Project

Management Response: 85-Management Response (English)

...Request (iii) The Request was submitted by the Egyptian Association for Collective Rights and seven other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on their own behalf and also on behalf of 17 owners of agricultural holdings and 18 agricultural laborers belonging to the villages of Alqata and Abu Ghalib in the Imbaba area of Giza Governorate (“the Requesters”). The Requesters are concerned about a variety of alleged impacts, specifically: (a) impacts on agriculture due to groundwater shortages;...

Complaint > Governance Promotion Adjustment Loan

Filing: 25-Request for Inspection (English)

...requesting that some of the enclosed materiais be kept confidential by the Panel, including identifying anonymity of those who have given CELCOR the authority to represent them. We specifically request that the names of the landowners in this claim be kept secret. Our agent in the United States of America is Ms. Dana Clark. Her contact address is phone/fax (510) 527 5246 and e-mail danaclark7(@mindspring.com We look forward to cooperating with you in this request. Executive...

Complaint > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Compliance Report: 16-Investigation Report (English)

...Requests After the Panel receives a Request for Inspection it is processed as follows: • The Panel decides whether the Request is prima facie not barred from Panel consideration. • The Panel registers the Request—a purely administrative procedure. • The Panel sends the Request to Bank Management, which has 21 working- days to respond to the allegations of the Requesters. • The Panel then conducts a short 21 working-day assessment to determine...

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

Compliance Report: 26-Investigation Report (English)

...Requests After the Panel receives a Request for Inspection it is processed as follows: • The Panel decides whether the Request is prima facie not barred from Panel consideration. • The Panel registers the Request—a purely administrative procedure. • The Panel sends the Request to Bank Management, which has 21 working days to respond to the allegations of the Requesters. • The Panel then conducts a short 21 working-day assessment to determine the eligibility of the Requesters ...

Complaint > National Drainage Program Project

Other: 34-Press Release on Board Discussion (English)

...requested by residents of Badin. The requesters, on behalf of local communities, claimed they were adversely affected by the Bank’s failure to comply with certain operational policies in connection with the Bank-financed NDP Project and earlier LBOD project. “While these older Bank-supported projects did succeed in creating opportunities for poor people in Sindh by expanding agriculture dramatically, the Inspection Panel has shown that the World Bank ─ and everyone involved in the projects ─ cou...