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

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dc.contributor.advisorDawit, Benyam (PhD)
dc.contributor.authorTatek, Megnot
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-04T12:07:37Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-08T04:51:25Z
dc.date.available2019-04-04T12:07:37Z
dc.date.available2023-11-08T04:51:25Z
dc.date.issued2013-01
dc.description.abstractThe 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.Key Words: World Bank, Human Rights, Development, Structural Adjustment Programs, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, Human Rights Accountability, Inspection Panel, CAO and the IEG.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/17580
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAddis Ababa Universityen_US
dc.subjectWorld Banken_US
dc.subjectHuman Rightsen_US
dc.subjectDevelopmenten_US
dc.subjectStructural Adjustment Programsen_US
dc.subjectPoverty Reduction Strategy Papersen_US
dc.subjectHuman Rights Accountabilityen_US
dc.subjectInspection Panelen_US
dc.subjectCAO and the IEGen_US
dc.titleThe World Bank and its Development Operations in Africa: A Critical Evaluation of its Human Right Accountability Mechanismsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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