The report was developed after a three day site visit by members of civil society organizations. It will be submitted to ADB Management and Board in order to highlight outstanding resettlement provisions and several other compliance deficiencies.
This report documents the status of the ADB’s Resettlement Implementation Plan (RIP) provisions and the Course of Action (CoA) in the Southern Transport Development Project of Sri Lanka. BIC has been assisting local groups and inspection claimants monitor the project since 2001 when the first inspection cases were filed.
The report was developed after a three day site visit (May 18-20, 2006) conducted by Avilash Roul of Bank Information Center, Hemantha Withanage of NGO Forum on ADB, Dilena Pathragoda of Centre for Environmental Justice and the staff of the Green Movement Sri Lanka. The Team found that several resettlement and rehabilitation related provisions are outstanding and implementation of the Board-approved Course of Action is delayed. The report will serve as an input to the Monitoring Visit of the ADB’s Compliance Review Panel (May 31-June 8, 2006) and will also be sent to ADB Management and Board so that the project can be brought into compliance and grievances of the long suffering affectees redressed as soon as possible.