At the time of the first dam's construction, a number of complaints were made to IFC by local people. After considerable pressure from international organizations in support of those complaints, the President of the World Bank Group asked Jay Hair, President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), to undertake an independent inquiry into the complaints. The resulting Hair Report made a number of recommendations; none of which had been fulfilled, according to the allegations in this complaint.
The CAO accepted the complaint despite IFC's exit, as the CAO considered that the issues raised by the complaint related directly to IFC's role in the project over a number of years, to promises and commitments made and to previous opinion by independent investigations and consultant reports that IFC needed to undertake certain actions.
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