The database assembled by NomoGaia analyzing public data regarding IFC’s potential impact on indigenous peoples is available on this page, both as a downloadable file and through the search function below.
Project Name | Project Number | Country | Category | Nature of Indigenous Risk |
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Eleme Fertilizer II | 40420 | Nigeria | B | This scale-up will occupy additional - previously agricultural - territory in Rivers State - where IPs are present. IFC does not mention these IPs and does not apply PS7 |
Prothem | 40902 | Burundi | B | Client lacks "a due diligence and land acquisition procedure" making confirmation that IPs are un-impacted impossible. Yet PS7 was bypassed |
PRAN Agro Business Ltd | 40929 | Bangladesh | B | Rajshahi and Natore have indigenous peoples but IFC does not acknowledge them: "neither indigenous peoples nor culturally sensitive sites are present |
Sao Manoel | 40264 | Brazil | B | Sao Paolo and Goias have registered quilombolas. IFC's decision to bypass PS7 used language identical to conditions that triggered PS7 in Biosev (No. 34607) - also a sugar mill in Brazil |
Craftsman III | 40781 | India | B | These are urban and industrial but the Indian government has placed industrial zones in and near indigenous lands in other contexts thus harming landless SC/STs |
Omera LPG | 40464 | Bangladesh | B | Chittagong Hill Tracts are affected by Omera's operations - but IFC simply notes: "PS: 7 Indigenous Peoples - and PS8: Cultural Heritage are not considered to be applicable to the project. |
PT Bajradaya Sentranusa | 40507 | Indonesia | B | The investment proposes to support development of new hydroelectric plants but the PS7 review only considers an existing HPP which wrongly dismisses Batak indigeneity |
Olam Smallholder Crop Financing | 40675 | World Region | B | Olam operations are in numerous countries and regions with known impacts on indigenous peoples - which are never reported in IFC DD |
China EDU Group | 40453 | China | B | Employment-oriented vocational schools in expansion across China should evaluate specific footprints in frontier regions |
Juniper Glass | 36680 | Ethiopia | B | Where is sand sourced from? Only P1-P4 are considered |