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How the World Bank’s Dispute Resolution Services Should Benefit Affected People and Borrowing States ; Comment les Services de résolution des litiges de la Banque mondiale devraient bénéficier aux populations concernées et aux États emprunteurs

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العنوان: How the World Bank’s Dispute Resolution Services Should Benefit Affected People and Borrowing States ; Comment les Services de résolution des litiges de la Banque mondiale devraient bénéficier aux populations concernées et aux États emprunteurs
المؤلفون: Brosseau, Jonathan
المساهمون: Institut de Recherche juridique de la Sorbonne André Tunc (IRJS), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)
المصدر: United Nations University ; https://hal.science/hal-04090533 ; United Nations University, 2023, 3, pp.1-21
بيانات النشر: HAL CCSD
United Nations University
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne: HAL
مصطلحات موضوعية: World Bank, Accountability Mechanism, Inspection Panel, Dispute Resolution Services, Law and Responsibility of International Organizations, [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences, [SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law
الوصف: International audience ; The World Bank recently established the Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) to address complaints related to its projects through mediation, fact-finding, and similar alternative dispute resolution methods. This paper evaluates how the DRS improves the right of access to a remedy for project-affected people.First, the paper identifies the legal and policy standards against which the DRS should be evaluated. The World Bank had begun providing a right of access to affected people through the compliance review process of its Inspection Panel, which has three pillars: accessibility, efficiency, and independence. Since the Bank intended only to improve this right in light of best practices regarding dispute resolution processes, the DRS should be as protective—if not more—of affected people as the Panel process is.Second, the paper suggests improvements to the DRS regarding the three pillars. To increase accessibility, the Bank should strengthen procedural protections and participation opportunities for affected people by providing a minimum standard of access to project-related materials. To increase effectiveness, the Bank should clarify the minimum threshold for acceptable remedies, and provide mandatory verification of the implementation of the parties’ agreements. To improve independence, the Bank should offer more options regarding sequencing the compliance review and dispute resolution processes, and provide funding to affected people to support complaints. ; La Banque mondiale a récemment mis en place les Services de Résolution des Litiges (DRS, pour Dispute Resolution Services en anglais) afin de traiter les plaintes relatives aux projets qu’elle finance, en recourant à la médiation, à la recherche des faits et à d’autres méthodes alternatives de résolution des conflits. Cet article évalue la manière dont le DRS améliore et devrait optimiser l’accès à un recours pour les personnes affectées par ces projets.Premièrement, l’article identifie les normes juridiques et politiques selon ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
Relation: hal-04090533; https://hal.science/hal-04090533; https://hal.science/hal-04090533/document; https://hal.science/hal-04090533/file/UNU-CRIS_Working-Paper_Brosseau_23.03.pdf
الاتاحة: https://hal.science/hal-04090533
https://hal.science/hal-04090533/document
https://hal.science/hal-04090533/file/UNU-CRIS_Working-Paper_Brosseau_23.03.pdf
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.DBCCDDEC
قاعدة البيانات: BASE