The World Bank and its Development Operations in Africa: A Critical Evaluation of its Human Right Accountability Mechanisms

Tatek, Megnot (2013) The World Bank and its Development Operations in Africa: A Critical Evaluation of its Human Right Accountability Mechanisms. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

The World Bank through its policies and development projects has caused a substantial effect on socio-economic rights especially in Africa. The study critically examines the impact of the World Bank’s policies and developmental projects on socio-economic rights in Africa. In this scrutiny, the writer argues that the Bank’s Structural Adjustment Programs and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers violate a number of socio-economical rights of the local population in Africa. The study also investigates the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline, the UG-Bujagali Private Hydropower Development Project in Uganda and the Niger Delta Contractor Revolving Credit Facility in Nigeria private development projects to show how private projects financed by the Bank have devastating effect on certain important socio-economic rights in Africa. All these in turn make the issue of human rights accountability very fundamental. The study thus critically asses the efficiency of the existing institutional human rights accountability mechanisms in addressing human rights issues including self-regulatory, the quasi-independent IBRD/IDA Inspection Panel, IFC/MIGA Compliance Advisory Office (CAO), and Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) and argues that the voluntary mechanisms adopted by the World Bank are not adequate to close up the issue of human rights accountability. Therefore, the study evaluates the non-institutional human rights accountability mechanisms drawing upon the sources of international law, a serious and systematic attempts are made to identify and classify the nature and content of human rights obligations applicable to the World Bank and concludes that it is possible to establish a human rights obligation of the WB in support of international human rights accountability.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Kabiru Wallace Ndung'u
Date Deposited:	21 Jun 2019 11:13
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2019 11:15
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9318

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