hyman
Uploaded by
14 SLIDES
245 VIEWS
140LIKES

Safeguarding Human Rights: Preventing Negative Impacts at the World Bank Projects

DESCRIPTION

This report highlights the urgent need for the World Bank to recognize and mitigate human rights risks in projects, citing failures to meet US expectations. It discusses specific impacts on populations, farmland, and the environment, emphasizing the lack of safety measures, livelihood disruptions, and dangers posed. Recommendations include improved due diligence, enhanced safeguards, and monitoring mechanisms.

1 / 14

Download Presentation

Safeguarding Human Rights: Preventing Negative Impacts at the World Bank Projects

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Preventing Negative Human Rights Impacts at the World Bank 12.19.13

  2. Contents for Review: Recognizing & mitigating human rights risks at World Bank Projects • Manageable prognostic process • Urgently needed • World Bank standards fail to meet US expectations

  3. Mon State Fast Facts(Government of Myanmar Household Survey 2011) • 50% of poor households are landless • 77% of households have no access to credit • 38% of residents live in slum dwellings (lack of sanitation, water, space, durability) • 24% of children suffer from wasting (malnutrition) • 61% of household heads have not completed primary school

  4. Intense Militarization(TBC 2012) • Tatmadaw Regional Command • Tatmadaw Light Infantry Division • Tatmadaw Military Operation Command • Tatmadaw Battalion Headquarters • BFG / Militia Headquarters • Tatmadaw Outpost • WB Thaton Power Project

  5. Populations and Farmland • Villages • Cultivation • Dense Forest • Rubber Plantation • Sparse Forest (with some rubber) • Swamp • Water body

  6. Unsafe Chemical Handling

  7. Environmental Dangers & Degradation • Legacy problems for future construction • Risk to agriculture • Risk to workers • Risk to communities

  8. “Safety First” • No occupational health and safety programming • No accident or spill logs • No workforce training • No management changes planned

  9. KayinLivelihoods in and around Thaton Plant • No employment • Lost lands • Dwindling opportunities • Poverty & Discrimination

  10. Project (Gas-fired Electricity Plant) Context (Mon State, Myanmar: Poor, ethnic minority population with low skill levels) Company (Unknown, but funded by the world bank) • Elements of Analysis • Problematic Context • Potential for problems in project • Unknown company

  11. Assessing Impacts -12 to -25 -0.5 to -12 0.5 to 12 12 to 25

  12. Important Process, Small Cost Cost of the Project: Cost of an HRIA: $140,000,000 $40,000-65,000 0.036% of project budget

  13. Summary: • A Letter to Treasury • The WB should respect human rights across projects, programs and activities • It should conduct due diligence to foresee and prevent negative human rights impacts associated with World Bank projects • It should enhance safeguards, including monitoring

  14. Thank you.

More Related