Ituango Hydropower Plant

Issues

Sectors

Project

Name: Support for Structuring the Ituango Hydroelectric Project

Investments: IDB CO-T1250

Client:

Support: Advisory services

Country: Colombia

Complaint

IAM: Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI)

ID: MICI-CII-CO-2018-0133

Date Filed: June 5, 2018

Status: Monitoring

Description

The Request describes the situation faced by 480 people in various communities along the Cauca river canyon in the municipalities of Briceño, Ituango, Toledo, Peque, Sabanalarga, Buriticá, Liborina, Olaya and Santa Fe de Antioquia. The Ituango Hydroelectric Project, currently under construction, is located in this area. The request alleges current and potential impacts in the construction and operation stages of the project related to the identification of the project’s area of influence and the affected population; the identification and management of social and environmental impacts; the increase in conflict, insecurity, and violence in the project area and gender-differentiated impacts; the absence of adequate public consultation and participation; and the lack of adequate resettlement or compensation plans for physical and economic displacement resulting from the project’s construction. The requesters also maintain that the emergency that began in April 2018 has worsened and led to additional impacts both upstream and downstream of the dam, and that the project's handling of its consequences and related information has been inadequate.

Complaint Stages

Timeline

Documents

Name	Category	Description
Request Receipt	Filing	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-101.pdf
Request Receipt	Filing	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-1002559224-169.pdf
Request Receipt	Filing	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-103.pdf
Request Receipt	Filing	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-102.pdf
Notice of Registration	Registration	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-61.pdf
Management Response	Management Response	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-91.pdf
Management Response	Management Response	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-95.pdf
Management Response	Management Response	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-96.pdf
Eligibility Memorandum Public Disclosure	Eligibility	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-108.pdf
Assessment Report Public Disclosure	Appraisal	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-131.pdf
Preparation of Draft Recommendation and ToRs due date	Timeline	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-142.pdf
Consideration by the Board of Executive Directors of the Recommendation and ToRs	Management Response	document.cfm?id=EZSHARE-504054498-414.pdf
Management Action Plan	Management Action Plan
Monitoring plan	Monitoring
Compliance Review Report	Compliance Report

Involved Groups

Name	Complaints	Group Type
Inter-American Association for the Defense of the Environment (AIDA)	2	International CSO
International Accountability Project (IAP)	5	International CSO
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)	9	International CSO

Commitments

Type	Category	Description	Status
Capacity Building	Social Support	Support capacity of complainants to develop proposals for funding of project	Planned
Cultural Heritage	Cultural Heritage	Develop one action jointly with community to acknowledge the ancestral traditions in the Cauca River Canyon	Planned
Employee Trainings	Operations Management	That training on security and human rights, conflict prevention and management in vulnerable regions affected by conflict and violence be developed for environmental and social teams.	Unknown
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	New guidelines for ESSP implemention manual for the role of the client during emergencies	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Technical note for clients to help them manage security and contextual risks	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Guidelines for specialists and clients on external audits of resettlement plans	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Internal technical note for the assessment of emergency plans	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Circulate technical note on participatory stakeholder mapping	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Technical note on IDB Invest's responsibilities during emergencies	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	technical note on the necessary elements of a resettlement plan	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Internal technical note on contextual risk analysis	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Guidance for clients with contextual risk content	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Technical note on assessment of biodiversity offsets including content on performance assessment.	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	In-house guidance and training for biodiversity offset assessment	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Develop Responsible Exit conceptual framework	Planned
Guidance Notes/Manuals	Operations Management	Develop the technical note for workshops to raise awareness within the communities affected by the Project on the importance of women’s rights and differentiated impacts	Planned
Information disclosure	Consultation	Disclose information to complaint reps about Independent Advisory Panel findings	Planned
Other Project Changes	Project Changes	To create content for an educational program on the protection of the Cauca River biome in different formats (video, audio and written report) with a gender perspective	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	Add link to reprisal information on IDB Invest project website	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	Provide training to clients on managing projects risks	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	That the supervision report template be updated to include a monitoring action on the updating of security agreements, security-related incidents and description of incident management measures	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	Updated format of the required client report (ESCR)	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	Monitoring of stakeholder participation activities	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	Update supervision report template with a component for updating the resettlement plan	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	Monitor updates to the mapping of affected populations	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	Update the template of the Environmental and Social Review Summary (“ESRS”)	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	hat the supervision report template be updated to include an action to supervise the client's measures regarding the risk of reprisals	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	Audiovisual anti-reprisal training permanently accessible to all clients	Planned
Process Change	Operations Management	That the environmental and social supervision report template be updated to include an action to monitor the client's management of measures to address risks of conflict and violence	Planned
Studies (not environmental)	Consultation	Study for productive, economic and social strengthening with a gender equity approach	Planned

Related Complaints

Project	IAM	Country	Date Filed	Status
Support for Structuring the Ituango Hydroelectric Project	IDB MICI	Colombia	05/06/2018	Closed Without Outputs