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The World Bank’s private investment arm is refusing to directly compensate individuals who faced sexual, physical, and financial harms at a chain of schools it funded in Africa and India, despite requests from the people who were hurt and pressure from civil society advocates, U.S. senators, and an internal watchdog.
This comes just months after the IFC bucked a CAO recommendation for direct payments as a remedy for harm in a separate investigation involving the sexual abuse of young female students in 2016 by a teacher at a Bridge school in Kenya.
Emily, a Kenyan woman who filed a complaint with the CAO last year about sexual assault she experienced at a Bridge school as a child, said that her decision to request compensation from the IFC was about acknowledging her father’s vehement advocacy on her behalf.
But the IFC declined to adopt the recommendation in its proposed management action plan, or MAP, which is scheduled to go before the World Bank board for approval on June 13, according to two sources familiar with the case as well as documentation viewed by The Intercept.
The limited timeframe reflected “a deeply inadequate and tokenistic approach to consultation and stakeholder engagement,” the nonprofit Oxfam wrote to the World Bank’s board on May 16 in an email obtained by The Intercept.
Any organization that is serious about their commitment to child protection and their duty of care to children in their custody would be doing everything possible to support these girls right now and to compensate them for the long-term harm they have suffered,” said David Pred, executive director of Inclusive Development International.
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