Cases / Wind, hydro and other renewables · Tajikistan · 2024–2025
World Bank inspection panel registers complaint over Rogun dam financing
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
The World Bank Inspection Panel registered a complaint about Rogun, a hydropower dam in Tajikistan, which was presented as clean energy and linked to US$650 million of financing. The panel's case page concerns resettlement.
What?
The World Bank Inspection Panel registered a complaint about the Rogun hydropower dam in Tajikistan. Rivers Without Boundaries
Where?
Tajikistan Rivers Without Boundaries
When?
Reported for 2024 to 2025 Rivers Without Boundaries
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
World Bank financing for the dam under a clean-energy framing, subject to an Inspection Panel complaint Rivers Without Boundaries
5 of 6 questions answered from the record · open: who
What happened
The record, in order.
Rivers Without Boundaries and Eurasianet reported that the World Bank's financing role in the Rogun dam is under scrutiny, and that US$650 million had been presented under a clean-energy framing.
The Inspection Panel's Rogun case page covers the complaint process and resettlement.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the dam's river-flow and ecological impacts are not described in the sources reviewed.
- None on record The outcome of the complaint and of the Bank's review is not stated in the sources reviewed.
- None on record The number of people affected by resettlement at Rogun is not stated in the sources reviewed.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts✓ Press and investigations✓ Communities and civil society— Researchers
Press and investigations
- Sustainable financing: Rogun Hydropower Project (P181029) and technical assistanceWorld Bank Inspection Panel ·
Communities and civil society
- Rivers Without Boundaries article on RogunRivers Without Boundaries · 2025
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