Indigenous Peoples, Forests and the World Bank:
Policies and Practice
Thomas Griffiths and Marcus Colchester
August 2000

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ANNEX I:

Effective Compliance with OD4.20 - A Sample of Seven World Bank Projects in Latin America, Africa, India and the Philippines (based on experience of indigenous and NGO workshop participants)

Main Policy Requirements by Project St

Project Case Study a

Action Para

Bolivia

Guyana

Cameroon

Uganda

Rwanda

India 1

COMMENTS
A. IDENTIFICATION
Borrower commitment to OD4.20 16,20

C

NC

?

?

N/A

NC

Borrower commitment: weak to non-existent, or at least not apparent in the cases
Undertake baseline studies 16

C / NC

C / NC

C ?

C late

?

Baseline studies: done in most cases, but not comprehensive or not applied adequately
Integrate with "safeguard policies" 10

?

NC

?

?

NC

NC

Safeguard policies applied: Either no or it is not apparent
Evaluate legal status of ips 16

?

C / NC

?

?

NC

NC

Legal status: in only one case evaluated, in others not done or recommendations ignored
Address IP issues in CAS 10, 11

?

?

?

?

NC

NC

CAS: Since they are not public documents, hard to know whether issues are addressed
Present IP issues in the IEPS 16

C

?

?

?

?

NC ?

IEPS: Not public documents, so hard to know whether issues are addressed
B. PREPARATION
Establish participation mechanism 8,17

C / NC

?1/4

NC

C late

NC

NC

Participation mechanism: weak to non-existent.
"Special action" by the borrower to safeguard IP rights to land 2,9,17

?

NC

N/A?

?

NC

NC

"Special Action" on land rights: not evident
Bank assistance to borrower for legal recognition of IP rights 17

?

NC

NC

?

NC

NC

Bank $ for capacity building for legal recognition of land rights: Either no or it's not evident
Bank assistance for capacity building for implementing agents 17

?

NC

NC ?

C

NC

NC

Bank $ for implementing agency capacity building: only in one case; rest not evident.
IPDP developed to mitigate negative impacts and share project benefits. 14, 15

C

NC

C
little info

C late

NC

NC

IPDP: When a Plan exists, it was either developed ate or is considered to be inadequate and not fully enforced.
IPDP plan for health, education, training and legal assistance 15e, 15f,

C

?

C

C late

NC

C

IPDP health and education services: In most cases, education and health services are being considered and implemented in the field.
An IPDP implementation plan 15g, 15I

C

NC

?

C late

NC

NC

IPDP implementation plan: uneven compliance.
A long lead-time for IPDP prep. 14g

C / NC

NC

?

C

?

NC

IPDP lead time: Very difficult for people to gauge what has been done to develop an IPDP if they are not consulted, not involved in an entire process, and if they don't have enough information.
C. APPRAISAL
Assess the adequacy of the IPDP 18

C

?

?

NC

NC

NC

IPDP Adequacy: Very difficult to know whether the Bank (ESSD presumably) assessed the adequacy.
Refuse appraisal until suitable IPDP plans have been submitted by the borrower 9

C ?

N/A

NC
Plan Accepted

NC

NC

NC

Refuse Appraisal: It may be that the Bolivia case is the only one where there was a refusal at appraisal.
Confirm that ips have participated 18

NC

NC

NC

NC

NC

NC

Confirm Participation: From the point of view of the Indigenous participants, consultation and participation was inadequate.
D. NEGOTIATION + CONTRACT
Commitment to IP policy and IPDP 20

C

N/A

N/A

?

NC

NC

E. IMPLEMENTATION
Ensure ips suffer no adverse effects 6

NC

N/A

N/A

NC

NC

NC

No adverse affects: Either there have been adverse impacts or the project is not in implementation yet
Ensure ips receive benefits 6

NC C

N/A

N/A

C

NC

C

Ensure benefits: Benefits have been identified in Uganda and India; in India the perception is that benefits are promised only to those who move.
Make supervision missions 19

C

N/A

N/A

C

?

C

Supervision missions: have been done is some cases. Questions came up as to the effectiveness of supervision missions to meet with locally affected people.
Recommend "corrective actions" 19

NC ?

N/A

N/A

C

?

C ?

Corrective actions: yes in some cases.
Undertake M+E & publish results 15h,19

C

N/A

N/A

NC

?

NC

M & E: Yes in Bolivia, but in other cases it was unclear whether evaluations were done and publicly available since people had not seen them.
A long follow-up for IPDP 14g

NC

N/A

N/A

N/A

?

NC

F. CLOSURE

Produce ICR

 

C ?

N/A

N/A

N/A

?

N/A

 

a Key to Project Case Studies by Country and Indigenous Peoples

Bolivia [Chiquitano and Ayoreo]: Eastern Lowlands Project (Santa Cruz)
Guyana [Patamona and others]: National Protected Areas Project
Cameroon [Bagyéli]: Chad-Cameroon Pipeline
Uganda [Twa]: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Rwanda [Impunyu Twa]: Integrated Forest Project I and II
India I [Adivasi]: Ecodevelopment in Nagarhole National Park
India II [Adivasi]: Madhya Pradesh Forestry Project
Philippines [Aeta]: Conservation of Priority Protected Areas System (Bataan)

Key :

C - Was complied with
NC - Was not complied with
CX - Was complied with but with qualifications (done inadequately, done late, exists on paper etc.)
? - It is not known whether the component was complied with
N/A - The project in question has not reached this stage in the project cycle