Citizen-Driven Accountability : The Inspection Panel and Development Policy Operations

1. Citizen-Driven Accountability:The Inspection Panel and Development Policy Operations Serge Selwan, Sr. Operations Officer The Inspection Panel October 9, 2013

2. Jurisdiction • Resolution “The Panel shall receive requests for inspection (…) with respect to the design, appraisal and/or implementation of a project financed by the Bank” • Compensation for Expropriation and Extension of IDA Credits to Ethiopia (1995) – Scope of the Mandate of the Inspection Panel (exchange between GC and IPN Chair) • 1996 Clarifications: “The word ‘project’ as used in the Resolution has the same meaning as it generally has in the Bank’s practice” • Since DPL Policy – 3 cases(DRC-Forest; Yemen-IRDP; and Poland-3rd EEHCD)

3. Admissibility Criteria • Two people or a local organization or representative(s) • Affected, or likely to be affected, by project activities • Who believe that actual or likely harm results from failure by the Bank to follow its policies and procedures • Project must not be closed or over 95% disbursed • Management must have prior knowledge of the Requesters concerns

4. OP 8.60 – Development Policy Lending • Provisions Relevant for Accountability • Para. 6: Consultations and Participation (Bank advises - the participation of key stakeholders; relevant Bank-work is disclosed) • Para. 9: Analytic Underpinnings • Para. 10: Poverty and Social Impacts • Para. 11: Environmental, Forests, and other Natural Resource Aspects • Para. 16: Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation (borrower-driven; Bank assesse adequacy of arrangements) • Para. 29: Program Document (disclosure post approval unless consented by the borrower)

5. Democratic Republic of Congo: Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project (2005) Request for Inspection related to EESRSP and TSERO (impacts on Indigenous Peoples and on forests) • Request received November 19, 2005 • Due diligence completed and Registration December 1, 2005 • TSEROapproved on December 8, 2005 • Fully Disbursed December 28, 2005 • Opportunity for accountability (20 days) • Management Response received January 13, 2006 • Panel Field visit Eligibility Report issued February 16, 2006 (Investigation approved on February 28, 2006)

7. Yemen: Institutional Reform Development Policy Financing (2009) The Yemen Observatory for Human Rights, a local NGO (consultation, disclosure, and fuel taxation and subsidy) • IRDPF approved December 6, 2007 (2nd Tranche cancelled): • 1st Tranche Disbursed – July 07, 2008 (Cabinet approval and submission to Parliament of a new tax law) • Request received April 13, 2009 • Due diligence completed and Registration April 20, 2009 • Management Response received May 20, 2009 • Panel Field visit June 9-12, 2009 (translation of Program Document shared with Requesters) Eligibility Report issued June 18, 2009

8. Poland: Third Employment, Entrepreneurship and Human Capital Development Policy Loan (2010) Two survivors of the holocaust (restitution of property) • Request received June 8, 2010 • EEHCD approved June 17, 2010 - US$ 1.350 billion (Single-Tranche) • Disbursement July 7, 2010 (Conditions were already met and included the enactment of several laws and regulations related to: the provision of family allowance; family benefits; 2010 budget; the pension fund; delivery of services in Poland in line with the EU Services Directive; etc…). • Opportunity for accountability (20 days) • Program Document shared with Requesters after approval Due diligence completed and Non-Registration July 23, 2010

9. Thank you