The Project:
The Project is a Specific Investment Credit approved by the Board on July 6, 2006, and restructured in July 2011. At the time of the receipt of the Request for Inspection, the Project had not yet closed and the disbursement rate was at 58.22%. According to the Project Appraisal Document ("the PAD"), the Project objective is "to increase sustainable access to basic urban services in Lagos through carrying out of investments in critical infrastructure."
The Request:
The Requesters allege that the Project has caused further "impoverishment anq insecurity" of Badia residents, a vulnerable slum community in Lagos, as a result of evictions that have occurred under the Project "without prior consultation, notice, compensation or resettlement."
Status:
The Panel had initially decided to postpone its decision on registration of this Request in order to provide an additional opportunity for Requesters and Management to address the concerns about the harm alleged in the Request. The Panel has taken this decision in line with its new "Pilot approach to support early solutions in the Inspection Panel process", which has been developed in the context of the update of its draft Operating Procedures.
Since, after careful review and thorough consideration of the results of the subsequent processing of this Request under the Pilot to support early solutions, and the information gathered and received, the Panel has decided on July 16, 2014, not to register the Request for the reasons explained in the Notice of non-Registration.
