- The Inspection Panel will host an event on Tuesday, May 10, at the 15th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The event, to be held at Conference Room 4 at UN headquarters in New York, will discuss Panel cases related to indigenous peoples and the Panel’s forthcoming publication about lessons emerging from those cases. Panel member Zeinab Bashir El Bakri will moderate the…
- The Inspection Panel on May 10 sponsored an event at the 15th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York to explain its mandate and process, and to discuss lessons emerging from Panel cases related to indigenous peoples over two decades. Panel member Zeinab Bashir ElBakri moderated the event at the United Nations headquarters and Operations Officer Birgit Kuba presented…
- The Inspection Panel, along with accountability mechanisms from five other international financial institutions, held a session for the first time at the annual meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment. The annual meeting in Nagoya, Japan, brought together some 800 practitioners in impact assessment from around the world. The May 11 session discussed the experiences of the…
- The New York University School of Law’s International Organizations Clinic has issued a report that looks at the impact of the World Bank’s proposed environmental and social safeguards on the work of the Inspection Panel. To read the full report, “Empowering the Inspection Panel: The Impact of the World Bank’s Safeguards Review,” click here.
- The Inspection Panel on April 12 released the first in a series of reports that draw on the main lessons from its caseload over 22 years. The first volume of the Panel’s “Emerging Lessons Series” deals with involuntary resettlement, a topic in 21 of the 32 cases the Panel has investigated since it was created in 1993 by the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors as an independent complaints…
- Panel Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata on April 15 took part in a Civil Society Policy Forum event at the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group. The event, sponsored by the Bank’s Operational Policy and Country Services group, was titled “Setting Standards for Sustainable Development: Update & Review of the World Bank’s Safeguards Policies, 3rd…
- The Inspection Panel has announced the speakers for its event to release the third report in its Emerging Lessons Series. The report will cover lessons from Panel cases over the last 23 years related to environmental assessment issues. It will be released as part of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Springs Meetings on April 18 from 2-3:30 p.m. US EDT in room MC 2-800 at World Bank…
- The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on April 4, 2017, approved the Inspection Panel’s recommendation to defer by up to 12 months its decision on whether an investigation is warranted into two projects regarding the Kalagala Offset Area (KOA) in Uganda. The Panel received a pair of complaints in 2016 related to the Private Power Generation (Bujagali) Project, the Water Management and…
- The Inspection Panel on March 13 issued a Notice of Non-Registration in response to a complaint filed about the Modern Food Storage Facilities Project in Bangladesh. The Panel had received a Request for Inspection on December 8, 2016, from farmers in the project area who feared health, environmental and economic harm from the household grain-storage silos to be distributed under the project. In…
- The Inspection Panel on March 20 took part in the opening day of the 18th annual World Bank’s Conference on Land and Poverty. Panel Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata was one of the speakers on a panel titled, “Strengthening Governance and Community Rights for Indigenous Peoples: Lessons Learned from Inspection Panel Cases and the Forest Investment Program-Dedicated Grant Mechanism.” Chairman…