Multilateral Development Banks: Public Consultation on Environmental Assessments : Report to Congressional RequestersThe Office, 1998 - 78 pages |
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11 projects access to key adequate or better Agency for International analysis appendix Asian Development Bank Bank Efforts bank intervention bank management bank member countries bank staff bank-supported projects Bank's home Barney Frank Benjamin F borrowing countries category A projects category B projects concerned members Consultation and Transparency consultation practices employed consultation process Efforts to Ensure Ensure Consultation environmental and social environmental assessment reports environmental impacts evaluate example GAO's guidelines IFC's implementation InfoShop Inter-American Development Bank International Development International Finance Corporation internet home pages Key Project Documents less than adequate Meaningful Public Consultation measures employed Methodology multilateral development banks Nancy Pelosi NGOs Pelosi Amendment percent policies and procedures private sector projects project design project profiles project proposals project sponsors projects supported projects we examined proposed projects Public Consultation Occurs public information center quality of consultation Treasury U.S. Agency U.S. executive directors USAID World Bank Group
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Page 68 - Mr. Henry L. Hinton, Jr. Assistant comptroller General National Security and International Affairs Division US General Accounting Office 441 G Street, NW - Room 4039 Washington DC 20548 Dear Mr.
Page 15 - private organizations that pursue activities to relieve suffering, promote the interests of the poor, protect the environment, provide basic social services, or undertake community development'.
Page 31 - The Bank expects the borrower to take the views of affected groups and local NGOs fully into account in project design and implementation, and in particular in the preparation of EAs (environmental assessments).
Page 1 - Please call me on (202) 512-7014 if you or your staff have any questions about this report. Major contributors to this report are listed in appendix V.
Page 3 - All data related to public and publicly guaranteed debt are provided on a loan-by-loan basis by debtors except for lending by some multilateral agencies, in which case data are taken from the creditors' records. These creditors include the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). (The IBRD and IDA are components of the World Bank)....
Page 31 - Bank) funding, during the EA process, the borrower consults project-affected groups and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) about the project's environmental aspects and takes their views into account.
Page 3 - Moscow, and the formerly bipolar world dissolving into a multipolar world, the time has come to make the World Bank (officially known as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) truly a world bank.
Page 27 - International institutions, such as the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and the Inter-American Development Bank, will bnve substantial capital funds available.
Page 28 - Bank-supported project can now ask an independent Inspection Panel to investigate complaints that the Bank has failed to abide by its policies and procedures.
Page 4 - ... the public with timely access to environmental information on these projects. The banks have adopted guidelines that require sponsors to consult with the public in developing projects and created systems to provide worldwide public access to information about these projects — including information on their environmental implications.