- The Inspection Panel on January 12 registered a Request for Inspection of the World-Bank financed Water and Sanitation Service Improvement Project and its Additional Financing. The Panel had received the complaint on November 29, 2016, regarding a water-transfer scheme to be carried out using the under-construction Northern Collector Tunnel Phase 1 (NCT 1) in Murang’a County, Kenya. The complaint…
- The Inspection Panel welcomes Laura Valli, who joined the team as a senior operations officer last month. Prior to joining the Panel Secretariat, Laura served as a senior investigator in the World Bank Integrity Vice Presidency, where she investigated allegations of corruption within Bank-funded projects and staff misconduct. Laura has also worked in the Bank’s Office of Ethics and Business…
- The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on December 13 discussed the Inspection Panel’s investigation of the Second Additional Financing for Energy Sector Clean-Up and Land Reclamation Project in Kosovo and the proposed Kosovo Power Project. To read the Panel’s investigation report,click here. To read the Management Action Plan presented in the Management Report and Recommendation and…
- World Bank management in December released its second report on the implementation of its action plans approved by the Bank’s Board of Executive Directors in response to findings in Inspection Panel investigations. Management, as requested by the Committee on Development Effectiveness of the Board, has begun submitting these reports to the Board twice a year. The first management report was…
- The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on July 27, 2017, approved the Inspection Panel’s recommendation to not investigate a complaint about the Mining Infrastructure Investment Support Project (MINIS) and its additional financing. The Panel had received a complaint about the project on February 10, 2015, from community representatives and local organizations in Mongolia and Russia. The…
- The Inspection Panel in late August took part in the 14th Annual Meeting of the Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs) hosted by the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank in Thessaloniki, Greece. Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata, Panel Member Jan Mattsson, Executive Secretary Dilek Barlas and Senior Communications Officer Rob Doherty represented the Panel at the two-day meeting, which,…
- The members of the Inspection Panel have unanimously re-electedGonzalo Castro de la Matato serve as chairman of the Panel for another year beginning on November 1. Dr. Castro de la Mata first became chairman on November 1, 2014. He was appointed to the Panel in December 2013 for a non-renewable term of five years. In the current fiscal year, the Panel completed investigations into cases in…
- Panel Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata on April 26 explained the Panel’s history and mandate at a side event at the 16th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. At the session, moderated by Panel Operations Officer Tamara Milsztajn, Dr. Castro de la Mata also discussed thePanel’s cases involving indigenous peopleswith a focus ona 2005 case from the Democratic Republic of Congo…
- The Inspection Panel on June 7 hosted 14 environmental law students from American University in Washington, D.C. Chairman Gonzalo Castro de la Mata and Operations Officer Birgit Kuba explained the Panel’s history, mandate and procedures, and detailed cases from Vietnam, Paraguay, Kenya and Uganda as examples of the Panel’s work. During the two-hour session, the students, taught by AU professor…
- The Inspection Panel this week welcomed summer interns Micaela Bullard and Jessica Depies. Jessica recently graduated, magna cum laude, from Boston University, where she double majored in International Relations and Economics. She is interning at the Panel as a member of the 2016 class of Truman Scholars. During her undergraduate career, Jessica worked for nonprofits serving refugee and immigrant…