Environmental Assessment
The Inspection Panel, the World Bank’s independent accountability mechanism, has released the third report in its Emerging Lessons Series. The latest report identifies lessons from Panel cases related to environmental assessment (EA) issues. The Pa...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/552681497012875381/Inspection-panel-environmental-assessment-emerging-lessons-series-no-3 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27063 |
| Summary: | The Inspection Panel, the World Bank’s
independent accountability mechanism, has released the third
report in its Emerging Lessons Series. The latest report
identifies lessons from Panel cases related to environmental
assessment (EA) issues. The Panel is an impartial
fact-finding body, independent from the World Bank
management and staff, reporting directly to the Board. In
response to complaints from affected people, it has a
mandate to review projects funded by the World Bank,
investigate allegations of harm to people or the environment
and review whether the Bank followed its operational
policies and procedures. Of the 34 cases the Panel has
investigated since it was created by the Bank’s Board of
Executive Directors in 1993, 29 of them have involved
environmental assessment issues. The Panel’s EA report
identifies seven lessons that can be learned from those
cases, and reaches five major conclusions. The Panel’s
Emerging Lessons Series is meant to build institutional
knowledge at the World Bank, enhance accountability and
contribute to more effective development. The first two
reports, on lessons from cases involving involuntary
resettlement and indigenous peoples, were released in 2016.
The fourth report in the series – on cases related to
consultation, participation and disclosure of information –
will be released in the fall of 2017. |
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