Haitian Communities’ Complaint to World Bank Inspection Panel (January 2015)

January 7, 2015

Dilek Barlas
Executive Secretary, The Inspection Panel
1818 H Street NW, MSN 10-1007
Washington, DC 20433 USA
Email: ipanel@worldbank.org

Dear Ms. Barlas, We are Haitian civil society organizations, with both national and local constituencies, and communities that have been, and will continue to be, directly affected by the development and reform of the Haitian mining sector (“Complainants”). 1 We hereby submit this Request for Inspection to the Inspection Panel regarding violations of the World Bank’s Social and Environmental Safeguard Policies resulting from the World Bank’s support to the Government of Haiti for activities related to the Haitian mining sector. This Request represents the joint concerns of Complainants, who have experienced harm and fear future harm as a result of the World Bank’s involvement in the mining sector in Haiti. We understand that World Bank support has been provided through the Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Facility (“EITAF”), 2 and we believe that support may have been provided through other projects as well.