- The Inspection Panel on May 3, 2016, received a second Request for Inspection related to the Armenia Irrigation System Enhancement Project, which converts four pump-based irrigation systems into gravity irrigation. The request was submitted by residents of Garni village affected by the Kaghtsrashen Gravity Irrigation System. The Requesters are concerned about a lack of water for gravity…
- The Inspection Panel this week welcomed two Truman Scholar summer interns, Kathleen Wilsonof the University of Georgia and Jay Ruckelshausof Duke University. Kathleen graduated with B.A. degrees in economics and international affairs and a minor in Arabic. She was executive director of the Women’s Outreach and Resource Collective in Athens, Georgia, from January 2014-May 2015 and has previously…
- The Inspection Panel this week participated in the 13th annual meeting of the Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs) in Manila. Panel Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata was part of a panel discussion on “the scope of IAMs work” during an open forum with civil society organizations (CSOs), and he later briefed other IAMs on the Panel’s Emerging Lessons Report series. Panel member Jan…
- The Inspection Panel will release the next report in its Emerging Lessons Series at an event at the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group Annual Meetings. “Emerging Lessons from Indigenous Peoples’ Cases” will be released at a panel discussion on October 4 from 3-4:30 p.m. at World Bank J Building room B1-080. Panel Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata will present the report’s finding.…
- The Inspection Panel and Catalina Devandas Aguilar, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, on June 15 co-sponsored an event at the 9th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP9.) Panel Member Zeinab Bashir Elbakri moderated the discussion and explained the Panel’s mandate and procedures. Ms.…
- On June 8, the Inspection Panel and four other independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs) joined more than 80 representatives of civil society from 17 Mexican states for an all-day workshop in Mexico City. Panel Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata and his counterparts at the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, the Complaints Mechanism of the European Investment Bank, MICI of the Inter-American…
- World Bank management has completed a study on lessons from the Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project (LMDGP), which prompted a complaint in September 2013 to the Inspection Panel. In response, the Panel utilized its Pilot approach, and management committed to undertake the study as part of that process. The study is not meant as an evaluation of the LMDGP itself. Rather, it “…
- On June 20, 2016, the Panel received a Request for Inspection related to the World Bank-financed Private Power Generation (Bujagali) Project; the Water Management and Development Project; and the Energy for Rural Transformation Phase III Project, all implemented in Uganda. The Requesters, who asked confidentiality, claim that residents in the Kalagala Offset Area are likely to suffer…
- The Inspection Panel and Catalina Devandas Aguilar, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, will co-sponsor an event at the 9th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (COSP9.) The event, “Introduction to the World Bank’s Inspection Panel,” will be held on Wednesday, June 15, from 10-11:30 a.m. in…
- The Inspection Panel and four other independent accountability mechanisms (IAMs) joined more than 80 representatives of civil society from 17 Mexican states for an all-day workshop in Mexico City on June 8. Panel Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata and his counterparts at the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, the Complaints Mechanism of the European Investment Bank, MICI of the Inter-American…