Interview with Mustafa Talpur, senior programme officer for ActionAid
in Islamabad and one of the inspection requesters

Q. Why were the findings by the Inspection Panel not shared with the
requesters, like they were shared with the World Bank?

A. According to the panel's rules, final findings are sent to the
Bank’s board and management. In the light of findings, management has
to devise a remedial plan. Later on the board scruitinises the
panel’s findings and manages a remedial plan. It’s the board’s
discretion to approve or modify both. Once the board approves these
documents, these are made public.

It is our legitimate right that we should know the management’s plan
before it is going to be finalised and approved by the board, so we
can contribute to it. But it is highly bureaucratic and a shameful
process of so-called community consultation and participation.