Inspection PanelEstablished in 1993, the Inspection Panel was created to address the concerns of those who are affected by Bank-funded projects and to ensure the Bank adheres to its operational policies throughout its projects. The three panel members are elected by the Bank's executive board to serve non-renewable five-year terms, but remain independent of Bank management. The current chairperson is Edith Brown Weiss; the other current members are Tongroj Onchan and Werner Kiene. read more background... Items 1 to 10 of 116Harvesting controversy World Bank's agriculture projects under scrutinyWhile the Bank prepares to revise its agriculture strategy, its focus on market liberalisation is criticised, its own complaints bodies issue damning reports on agriculture projects in Peru and Papua New Guinea, and critics fault its gender focus. read article... No fairy tale Singrauli, India, still suffering years after World Bank coal investmentsAs debates continue at the World Bank about its lending for new coal-fired power plants, residents of the Indian district of Singrauli, the country's coal capital, still live with the lasting social and environmental impacts of decades of coal-related projects and ask why the Bank has never returned to fully address what has been left in the wake of its investments in the region. read article... World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2011Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2011. This page is being updated regularly. read article... World Bank busted over bus project in LimaThe Bank board approved in June a management response to a complaint from residents of the Barranco district in Lima, Peru, about the impacts of a bus service project that it supported. read article... Red-Dead sea plan in hot waterThree civil society groups have filed a complaint with the World Bank's Inspection Panel, its complaint mechanism, over the Bank's feasibility study for a project to channel water from the Red Sea to replenish the Dead Sea. read article... World Bank-IMF spring meetings 2011Analysis of governance reforms and other decisions made at the 2011 World Bank and IMF spring meetings read article... Cambodians denounce World Bank-funded land grabWe are the residents of Boeung Kak in Sras Choc commune, Phnom Penh, Cambodia who submitted a complaint to the World Bank Inspection Panel in September 2009. Our land rights, including our right to register our land, were unfairly denied by the World Bank-financed land-titling project. read article... Cambodia and the limits of World Bank accountabilityThe World Bank Inspection Panel released an investigation report in March, which found that the Bank breached its operational policies by failing to properly design and supervise the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project (LMAP), contributing to "grave harm" to affected families. read article... World Bank ignoring forest communities?The World Bank has come under fire for its Inspection Panel's decision on the forestry sector in Liberia, while new reports from civil society groups add to the growing backlog of criticism over the Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). read article... World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2010Analysis, news, and about the events inside and around the World bank/IMF annual meetings 2009. This page is being updated regularly. read article... |
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