BIC highlights the work of Yahya Saleh Mohsen of the Yemen Observatory for Human Rights. Yahya played an instrumental role in bringing a case to the World Bank Inspection Panel involving the Bank’s translation policies in Yemen and beyond.
Read a BIC opinion piece from the FP blog, The Argument, explaining why the World Bank must reconsider its current policies on translation and information disclosure in order to promote substantive civil society engagement. Source By: Rebecca Harris In January 2008, community groups in Yemen wrote to their local World Bank office, asking for an …
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IDB Loan Approval Set for early 2009: The $200 million road project in Putumayo, Colombia is an anchor project for the IIRSA Amazonas Corridor and will unlock commercial traffic between the ports of Tumaco and Belem, as well as between Bogota and Quito.
ADB requested to move quickly on establishing an independent resettlement monitoring panel.
Compliance Review Panel finds violations of 7 Asian Development Bank policies in Southern Transport Development Project. Recommends 19 courses of action.
No further action will be taken on these issues until the contractual dispute between PCD and the turnkey contractor is resolved.
Asian Development Bank Compliance Review Panel releases draft report in response to Sri Lanka Southern Transport Development Project complaint.
Compliance Review Panel has 14 days to prepare the Terms of Reference, methodology, and time frame of the review.