Chapter of CIFs Monitor 8 on the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR)
Cambodia
Rights
Background
Review and update of the World Bank’s safeguard policies
Minutes from a side event with the World Bank safeguards team presenting an update on the review process during the World Bank/IMF annual meetings 2013.
Accountability
Commentary
Accountability squandered?
Despite a 2011 victory in Cambodia, where a mass eviction in the centre of Phnom Penh was halted and remaining affected families finally gained legal title to the land they had been wrongly denied under a World Bank project, recent arrests have put justice in jeopardy and led to calls for a continued lending freeze by the Bank.
Accountability
Commentary
Cambodians denounce World Bank-funded land grab
We 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.
Accountability
News
Cambodia and the limits of World Bank accountability
The 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.
Finance
Background
Seminar on the new aid architecture in health: the way forward
Highlights of a seminar on the new aid architecture in health as part of the Programme of Seminars on 19 October at the World Bank-IMF annual meetings 2007.
IFI governance
News
Inspection Panel condemns Bank forestry project in Cambodia
A leaked Inspection Panel report heavily criticises a Bank's forestry management project in Cambodia.
Accountability
News
Bank facilitates illegal logging in Cambodia
According to NGOs, the World Bank has facilitated illegal logging in Cambodia, violating its own operational policies in the process.
Environment
News
World Bank rewards Cambodian government despite forest mismanagement
Despite its failure to improve forest management, the World Bank has released further funding to the Cambodian government. NGOs argue that this shows that the Bank is not serious about social and environmental issues. The Bank's anti-corruption credentials are also in doubt as it has awarded a contract for forest monitoring to a company with convictions for bribery.
Rights
News
Questions raised over World Bank post-conflict work
The World Bank is caught in a new political storm in Cambodia for cancelling $6.3 out of an $18 million loan for the demobilisation and reintegration of Cambodian soldiers. Meanwhile the Bank is criticized for refusing to directly back disarmament.
Rights
News
Bank in the middle of Cambodia, PNG forestry battles
Civil society groups in Cambodia and Papua New Guinea call on the Bank to exert its influence to curb violations of forestry codes.
Rights
News
Cambodian catch-22
The World Bank is considering withholding funds from Cambodia in response to government moves against Global Witness, an independent monitor of the forestry sector.
