Early Warning System

Countries

Ghana
Sierra Leone

Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.

Specific Location

Sierra Leone: Tonkolili District / Ghana: Asante Akim North District, Sekyere Plains District

Whenever identified, the area within countries where the impacts of the investment may be experienced. Exact locations of projects may not be identified fully or at all in project documents. Please review updated project documents and community-led assessments.

Financial Institutions

US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.

Project Status

Proposed

Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.

Bank Risk Rating

Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."

Borrower

Miro Forestry

A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.

Sectors

Agriculture and Forestry

The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.

Investment Amount (USD)

Not Disclosed

Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.

Bank Documents

Primary Source

Original disclosure @ DFC website

Updated in EWS Jun 5, 2023

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Project Description

If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the Bank’s website, the Project involves existing commercial forestry and timber products operations in Sierra Leone and Ghana. The Project produces plywood for the regional market and plywood, electric transmission poles, and edge glued board for overseas markets. In Sierra Leone, the Project operates on land leased from traditional landholders with traditional land ownership rights (Yoni and Masimera Chiefdoms) under legally recognized customary laws. In Ghana, the Project operates in the Boumfuom, Chirimfa, Awura, Abrimasu, and South Formangso Forest Reserves through a concession agreement between the Project company, traditional landowners and the Forestry Commission. The Project’s total land holding is 9,200 ha (Sierra Leone) and 19,733 ha (Ghana). The Project also manages conservation areas with native plantings for a total of 1,279 ha (Sierra Leone) and 6,993 ha (Ghana). The Project workforce consists of 1,400 employees (Sierra Leone) and 1,500 employees (Ghana).

Investment Description

Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Investment type not available at the time of the snapshot.

Private Actor 1	Private Actor 1 Role	Private Actor 1 Sector	Relation	Private Actor 2	Private Actor 2 Role	Private Actor 2 Sector
-	-	-	-	Miro Forestry	Client	-

Contact Information

This section aims to support the local communities and local CSO to get to know which stakeholders are involved in a project with their roles and responsibilities. If available, there may be a complaint office for the respective bank which operates independently to receive and determine violations in policy and practice. Independent Accountability Mechanisms receive and respond to complaints. Most Independent Accountability Mechanisms offer two functions for addressing complaints: dispute resolution and compliance review.

Location of Local Access to Project Information:

Location of Local Access to Project Information: Ghana
Address: Drobonso, Sekyere Afram Plains District
Point of Contact : Adu-Gyamfi Foster
Telephone :+233248265173
Email : adugyamfi372@gmail.com

Location of Local Access to Project Information: Sierra Leone
Address: Radio Gbaft, Mile 91, Tonkolili District
Point of Contact : Ibrahim A Conteh
Telephone :+23277552896
Email : Ibrahimmakorie@yahoo.com

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Unlike many other development finance institutions, DFC does not currently have an access to information policy.

Under the United States Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), DFC is obliged to respond to reasonably formulated requests for Agency records. However, DFC may apply exemptions from release to certain types of information and may charge fees in responding to requests. DFC has a designated FOIA officer who is trained in how to respond to requests and implement the law. You can learn more about filing a FOIA request at: https://www.dfc.gov/foia

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION (DFC)

The Office of Accountability is an independent office that addresses complaints about environmental or social issues related to DFC-supported projects. The office provides communities an opportunity to have concerns independently reviewed and addressed. If you submit a complaint to the Office of Accountability, it may assist you by either seeking to address your problems by facilitating a problem solving dialogue between you and those implementing the project and/or investigating whether the DFC complied with its policies to prevent environmental, social, human rights, and labor harms.

You can find more information about the Office of Accountability at: https://www.dfc.gov/who-we-are/office-accountability