- Contact: Eduardo Abbott (202) 458-2617 WASHINGTON, September 10, 1997-The World Bank's Board of Directors yesterday agreed that the Bank should supervise the implementation of an Action Plan proposed by the Government of Brazil which completes and extends the benefits of the Itaparica Resettlement and Irrigation Project. The project, partly supported by $232 million in World Bank financing,…
- CONTACT: Eduardo G. Abbott (202)458-5200 Washington, D.C. July 31, 1998. The members of the Inspection Panel unanimously elected Mr. Ernst-Günther Bröder to serve as Chairman of the Inspection Panel ("Panel") for a year beginning August 1, 1998. Mr. Bröder replaces Mr. Alvaro Umaña Quesada, who served as Chairman of the Panel from August 1, 1997 to July 31, 1998. Under the terms of the…
- CONTACT: Eduardo G. Abbott (202)458-5200 WASHINGTON, December 22, 1998 - The World Bank's Board of Directors on the December 10, 1998, reviewed the Inspection Panel's report on the Request for Inspection for the India Ecodevelopment Project. The Panel's report was prepared in response to a request filed by a group representing some of the local inhabitants of Rajiv Gandhi National Park,…
- CONTACT: Eduardo Abbott Telephone: (202) 458-5200 WASHINGTON, April 10, 1997 -- The World Bank today released the report of the independent Inspection Panel to the Board of Executive Directors on PLANAFLORO, a controversial natural resource management project in Brazil's Rondonia state financed with a US$167 million loan from the World Bank approved in 1992. The Board reviewed the Panel's report…
- CONTACT: Eduardo G. Abbott Telephone: (202) 458-5200 WASHINGTON, May 7, 1997--The independent Inspection Panel for the World Bank On May 2, 1997, registered a request for an investigation into the World Bank NTPC Power Generation project in India. The request was filed by residents of Singrauli, India, represented by Ms. Madhu Kohli, who live in the project area and who claim that they have been…
- WASHINGTON, September 21, 1999--The independent Inspection Panel for the World Bank will begin its investigation into whether the Bank has observed its policies and procedures in the preparation of the China Western Poverty Reduction Project with a visit to Qinghai in October. The main purpose of the visit is to meet with local people who will be affected if the Qinghai portion of the project…
- CONTACT: Antonia M. Macedo (202) 458-2597 WASHINGTON, October 4, 1999—Ms. Maartje Van Putten, a Dutch national, has been appointed as a new member of the World Bank's Inspection Panel. Ms. Van Putten replaces Mr. Ernst Guenther-Broeder who completed his service with the three member Panel on July 31. Ms. Van Putten was until recently a member of the European Parliament. She has been a highly…
- Washington, September 12, 2002 - The World Bank Board of Executive Directors recorded their approval of the actions and next steps put forth by World Bank Management in response to the Inspection Panel's findings in its Investigation Report of three inter-related projects in Chad: The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (Ln. 4558-CD); the Management of the Petroleum Economy…
- WASHINGTON, September 20, 2002—The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved, on September 9, 2002, the Inspection Panel's recommendation to conduct an investigation into the matters alleged in a Request for Inspection related to the Yacyretá Hydroelectric Project, which is partially supported by Loan 2854-AR (Argentina-SEGBA V Power Distribution Project) and Loan 3842-PA (Paraguay-…
- Contact: Eduardo G. Abbott (202) 458 5200 WASHINGTON, September 6, 2002—Ms. Edith Brown Weiss, a U.S. national, has been appointed as the new member of the World Bank's three-member Inspection Panel. Ms. Brown Weiss replaces Mr. Jim MacNeill who completed his service with the Panel on July 31. Ms. Brown Weiss is an outstanding legal scholar who has taught and published widely on issues of…