Letters written by FPP to UK Governmental Agencies

June 2000 – June 2002

Responses from UK Governmental Agencies to FPP

·       4 June 2000: to Clare Short, re: concerns over the Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline

·  No reply

·       10 July 2000: to Stephen Pickford, re: Chad-Cameroon Pipeline

·  No reply

·       23 August 2000: to Stephen Pickford, re: Report on implementation of World Bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy

·  No reply

·       8 January 2001: to Stephen Pickford, re: Civil Society concerns over lack of transparency and limited public participation in the conversion of the World Bank’s Resettlement Policy

·  No reply

·       23 January 2001: to the Clerk of the IDC, re: DFID’s Globalisation White Paper

·  Receipt acknowledged

·       15 February 2001: email to Stephen Pickford, re: lack of response

·  Reply by email

·       2 March 2001: to Stephen Pickford, re: Concerns about the weakening of World Bank Safeguard Policies

·  Reply by email from UKED and written reply from DFID

·       19 March 2001: to Clare Short, re: DFID’s Globalisation White Paper

·  Written reply

·       19 March 2001: to DFID, re: NGO concerns over the weakening of WB safeguard policies

·  No reply

·       29 March 2001: to Stephen Pickford, re: Concerns over draft Involuntary Resettlement Policy

·  No reply

·       29 June 2001: to DFID, re: World Bank Safeguards in Perspective

·  No reply

·       3 August 2001: to Stephen Pickford, re: Board Discussion of Resettlement Policy

·  No reply

·       14 August 2001: to Stephen Pickford, re: Revision of the World Bank’s Policy on Information Disclosure

·  Written reply

·       11 September 2001: to Clare Short, re: Copy of joint letter from 218 organisations and individuals from 58 countries calling for a strong and clear WB safeguard policy on forests (copied by fax to Clare Short, by email to DfID staff and UKDEL)

·  No acknowledgement of receipt

·       20 September 2001: to Clare Short, re: Request for UK support for amendments to WB draft policy on involuntary resettlement

·  Written reply, 7 November 2001: from DFID re: World Bank Policy on Involuntary Resettlement

·       11 December 2001: to DfID staff and UKDEL, re: Copy of letter to WB Policy Team: detailed comments highlighting flaws and weaknesses in the WB’s draft revised policy on Indigenous Peoples (OP/BP 4.10), with multiple technical recommendations for strengthening the policy to make it consistent with international standards on the rights of indigenous peoples.

·  No acknowledgement of receipt

·       14 May 2002: to Thomas Scholar, re: concerns over WB Draft OP/BP 4.10 on Indigenous People and its plans for finalisation

·  No reply or acknowledgement of receipt from any ED

·       15 May 2002: to Clare Short, re: concerns over WB Draft OP/BP 4.10 on Indigenous People and its plans for finalisation

·  No reply

·       June 2002: to DFID staff, re: copies of detailed letters from FPP to the WB calling for strong revised WB policies on forests.

·  Email acknowledgements of receipt, but no substantive reply