FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)
Emil Touray
10 June 2009
Mohamed H'midouche, the Resident Representative for the African Development Bank Group in Dakar, has recently informed Civil Society Representatives from The Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Cape Verde, that any company that engages in corrupt practices while implementing an ADB project, will be black listed by his institution.
He said any company that is blacklisted by his organization will not be awarded contracts to implement projects financed by the ADB.
The ADB boss made this statement at a civil society forum organized by his institution in Novotel, Dakar, on his institution's Independent Review Mechanism.
Mr. H'midouche called on the civil society actors to sensitize the masses in their respective countries on his institution's Independent Review Mechanism which seeks to give voice to those people that are affected or are likely to be affected by projects funded by the African Development Bank.
The Independent Review Mechanism has been established to provide people adversely affected by a project financed by the African Development Bank Group with the possibility to request the group to comply with its own policies and procedures.
Any group of two or more people in a country where an African Development Bank Project is located who believe that as a result of the Bank group's violation of its policies and or procedures, their rights have, or are likely to be adversely affected in a direct or material way, can request for a "compliance Review" to the compliance Review and Mediation Unit of the Africa Development Bank.
The Compliances Review and Medication Unit of the Bank group administers the Independent Review Mechanism; it receives and registers Request and undertakes problem solving exercises.
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