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World Bank Safeguards Violated

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The World Bank’s Inspection Panel (IP), which monitors the Bank’s compliance with its own policies, has identified an “operational link” between the Bank’s provision of support to Ethiopia for basic services, and the country’s “villagization” (forced relocation) of Indigenous Peoples. The Bank refutes this connection, claiming that “the allegations raised…are matters that are not related to compliance with Bank policy.”

Another recent IP report acknowledged the Bank’s role in the Kenya Forest Service’s (KFS) eviction of the Sengwer Peoples from the Embobut Forest. The IP identified no direct link between Bank funding and the evictions, but found that the Bank “was noncompliant with its safeguard policies…by failing to adequately identify, address or mitigate the fact that the institution it was funding, KFS, was and still remains committed to [evicting the Sengwer].”

Debates surrounding the revision of language in the Bank’s safeguards are important, but the Bank also must be scrutinized for how it applies its safeguards to its due diligence and risk analysis processes. The IP’s findings reveal major weaknesses in this area.

Sources: Anuak Media, Forest Peoples Programme

 

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