- The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on August 6, 2018, approved the Inspection Panel’s recommendation not to investigate the Mining Infrastructure Investment Support Project and its Additional Financing (MINIS) in Mongolia. MINIS is a technical assistance project whose development objectives are to “facilitate infrastructure investments to support mining and downstream processing,…
- Mr. Ernst-Günther Bröder, a German national, served as the first chair of the Inspection Panel. Prior to assuming that position, Mr. Bröder was the fourth President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 1984 to 1993. Earlier, he held several supervisory and consultative functions in international banks and other institutions. He was a Governor of the European Bank for…
- The Inspection Panel on July 24, 2018, issued a Notice of Non-Registration in response to a Request for Inspection of the Private Sector Competitiveness Project in Tajikistan, finding that there was no plausible link between the project and the alleged harm. The Request for Inspection had been submitted on June 21, 2018, by two people residing in Tajikistan and employed by a foreign…
- The Committee on Development Effectiveness of the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has posted a statement on the Board’s website about its review of the Inspection Panel’s toolkit. A link to the statement is posted at the top of the Board of Directors site, or readers can also go directly to the statement from…
- “The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on July 17, 2018, discussed the Inspection Panel’s investigation of the Second Additional Financing of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s High Priority Roads Reopening and Maintenance Project, and asked Bank Management to update its Response and proposed Action Plan to fully reflect the steps it has taken and plans to take to address the Panel’s…
- The World Bank Board of Executive Directors on September 19, 2018, approved the Inspection Panel’s recommendation to investigate two projects related to the Kalagala Offset Area (KOA) in Uganda. The Panel received two Requests for Inspection of the Private Power Generation (Bujagali) Project, the Water Management and Development Project (WMDP) and the Energy for Rural Transformation Phase III…
- The Inspection Panel took part in four events at last week’s International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Bali. On Monday, October 8, Executive Secretary Dilek Barlas explained the Panel’s origins and operations to about 40 community representatives from Indonesia at a civil society workshop co-…