Of the twenty-eight records in the register, one carries a published figure for money disbursed and twenty-seven do not
Claim ID
INTRO-004a
Exact or summary claim
Of the twenty-eight records in the register, one carries a published figure for money disbursed and twenty-seven do not
Destination
Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapters 10, 11
Status
QUALIFIED
Source
World Bank Implementation Status and Results Report, Syria Electricity Emergency Project, archived 21 July 2026 (SRC-350); World Bank Project Appraisal Document, 9 June 2025 (SRC-351); planning/matrices/transaction_register.tsv, Realised_to_Syria column across all 28 rows
Source type
Official supervision and appraisal documents of the financier, against an author-assembled register
Published
2026-08-10
Accessed
2026-08-22
Measure and scope
An absence of publication across twenty-seven records and not a fact about the world. THE PUBLISHED FIGURE IS TR-001's: US$9.50 million disbursed of a grant revised to US$146.43 million, 6.49 per cent, at the report's table 7.2, with every physical indicator at nil as at 9 July 2026. ITS CHANNEL IS DIRECT PAYMENT: the appraisal document puts US$144 million of US$146 million through direct payments to suppliers and consultants, so it is a disbursement of the grant and nothing opened establishes that any of it reached a Syrian account. The twenty-seven remain scoped to the register as at 10 August 2026 and to a register sweep, which is the method this correction shows can miss a routinely disclosed document || CORRECTED 22 August 2026 AT N3 OF THE v19 DIFF REVIEW, AND THE ROW WAS WIDER THAN BOTH THE PROSE AND THE EVIDENCE. This field said 'a grant revised to US$146.43 million'. THE GRANT WAS NEVER REVISED: it is SDR 107,700,000, put at US$146 million equivalent at US$1 = SDR 0.73740331 effective 1 June 2025, and the status report's original 146.00 and revised 146.43 are one commitment stated at two rates. This field also said 'ITS CHANNEL IS DIRECT PAYMENT... so it is a disbursement of the grant'. THE CHANNEL OF THIS DRAWDOWN IS NOT ESTABLISHED: the status report publishes a total with no breakdown by method, and the appraisal document allocates US$144 million to direct payment ex ante, by value, in the future tense, across three methods available at the borrower's option. WHAT STANDS is that US$9.50 million was disbursed against the grant, that every physical indicator in the same report was at nil as at 9 July 2026 while one non-physical indicator read 12 of 20, and that nothing opened establishes that any of the money reached a Syrian account. The row now agrees with FIG-00-016 and FIG-00-020, which it contradicted from the moment those two were corrected in the same pass that left this field standing.
Known conflict
TR-006, GCF readiness support, carries USD 1.9 million described as cumulative readiness support to date and is marked promotion attempted and not achieved. The readiness database or the award document is the likeliest place a published Syrian disbursement figure exists. Retrieve before print || AND THE ABSOLUTE FORM OF THIS CLAIM WAS FALSIFIED BY A DOCUMENT PUBLISHED THREE WEEKS BEFORE ITS OWN AS-OF DATE. SRC-350 was archived on 21 July 2026 and the claim was made as at 10 August 2026. No row carried the figure because nobody had opened the report behind it
Specialist
None
Downstream
The book's framing finding
Action
LIVE. This is the claim the introduction prints at v20 and Chapter 1 at v27, and it replaces INTRO-004, which is retained at SUPERSEDED holding the claim D-093 killed. THE TWO CHAPTERS SAY DIFFERENT AND COMPATIBLE THINGS AND BOTH ARE COMPRESSIONS OF THIS ROW: the introduction states the published figure with its channel qualification, and Chapter 1 states that no row of the register is CLASSED as a disbursement, which is a statement about the Flow_class column. Every print of the underlying figure states it once, in the introduction. D-017's second and third limbs still bind: an absence of publication is not proof that no money has moved, and the book states the whole of what the record supports. TR-006 is still unretrieved and is still the likeliest further exception. THE TWENTY-SEVEN REST ON A REGISTER SWEEP and not on an opening of the document behind every row, which is the method this correction showed can miss a routinely disclosed document, and the prose states that limit in the claim itself.