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

Management Response: 26-Management Response (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 > 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 > Ecodevelopment Project

Eligibility: 11-Eligibility Report (English)

...REQUESTERS AND REQUEST 17. This section will first examine the eligibility of the Requesters. It will then discuss the eligibility of the substance of the Request for an investigation. To do this, the assertions made in the Request and IDA Management Response are compared and examined. ELIGIBILITY OF THE REQUESTERS 18. The Panel finds that the Requesters are eligible to file a Request in accordance with the Resolution establishing the Panel, subsequent “Clarificat...

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 > 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 > 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 > Western Poverty Reduction Project

Eligibility: 16-Eligibility Report (English)

...President that the Panel had received a request for inspection 4 (“Request”) to investigate the World Bank’s compliance with a number of its policies and procedures in the preparation of the China Western Poverty Reduction Project. A copy of the Notice of Registration and a copy of the Request were sent to the President. Bank management (“Management”) was notified that it must provide the Panel no later ...

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 > 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...

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 > 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 > 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 > Third Power Project, Fourth Power Project, and proposed Bujagali Hydropower Project

Filing: 24-Request for Inspection (English)

...Requested for the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and economic analysis of the Bujagali Dam project from World Bank, Uganda government and the developer (AES), to no avail. 4. Requested an explanation from National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and World Bank as to why the Bujagali EIA was accepted by the World Bank before the approval of the Transmission Line EIA by NEMA. No explanation has been given. As a consequence of the above actions, we have filed a claim with the co...

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 > 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 > Protection of Basic Services Program Phase II Additional Financing and Promoting Basic Services Phase III Project

Registration: 82-Notice of Registration (English)

...Requesters are unsatisfied with the Bank's response and request the Panel to carry out an investigation of the matters raised in the Request for Inspection. 3 The Request's claims are further elaborated in the Annex, which forms part of the Request, titled "Policy and Legal Analysis of the Ethiopia PBS Request for Inspection", a summary of which follows. The Annex to the Request describes the Requesters as Anuak indigenous people...

Complaint > Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project

Filing: 91-Notice of Receipt of a Request for Inspection (English)

...Request, and providing this additional opportunity for Management and Requesters to address the concerns of harm alleged in the Request. The Request has been assigned IPN Request Number RQ 13/09. Mr. Jim Yang Kim, President International Development Association The Executive Directors and Alternates International Development Association 4 October 2...

Complaint > Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development Project

Filing: Notice of Receipt of Request and Initiation of the Pilot Approach to Support Early Solutions (English)

...Request for Inspection at this time to provide an opportunity for an early resolution to the Requesters' concerns. In line with the Pilot approach, the Requesters have the right, at any time, to indicate that they are not satisfied and request the registration of the Request. The Panel will review the situation three months following the submission of this Notice. If the Requesters are satisfied that their concerns are being successfully addressed, and they so inform the Panel in writin...