United Nations Children’s Fund Sudan SOMOUD – Enhancing Community Resilience Project – Part 1 (P181490) Negotiated ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITTMENT PLAN (ESCP) April 2024 1|Page ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN 1. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (the Recipient) will implement Part 1 of the Sudan Somoud - Enhancing Community Resilience Project (the Project), as set out in the Grant Agreement. The International Development Association (the Association) acting as an administrator of the Sudan Transition and Recovery Support Multi-Donor Trust Fund has agreed to provide financing for the Project, as set out in the referred agreement. 2. The Recipient shall ensure that the Project is carried out in accordance with the Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs) and this Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP), in a manner acceptable to the Association. The ESCP is a part of the Grant Agreement. Unless otherwise defined in this ESCP, capitalized terms used in this ESCP have the meanings ascribed to them in the referred agreement. 3. Without limitation to the foregoing, this ESCP sets out material measures and actions that the Recipient shall carry out or cause to be carried out, including, as applicable, the timeframes of the actions and measures, institutional, staffing, training, monitoring, and reporting arrangements, and grievance management. The ESCP also sets out the environmental and social (E&S) instruments that shall be adopted and implemented under the Project, all of which shall be subject to prior consultation and disclosure, consistent with the relevant ESSs, and in form and substance, and in a manner acceptable to the Association. Once adopted, said E&S instruments may be revised from time to time with prior written agreement by the Association. 4. As agreed by the Association and the Recipient, this ESCP will be revised from time to time if necessary, during Project implementation, to reflect adaptive management of Project changes and unforeseen circumstances or in response to Project performance. In such circumstances, the Recipient, through the Project Implementation Unit (PIU), and the Association agree to update the ESCP to reflect these changes through an exchange of letters signed between the Association and the Country Representative of UNICEF. UNICEF shall promptly disclose the updated ESCP. 2|Page MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY MONITORING AND REPORTING A REGULAR REPORTING Submit on a biannual basis as part of United Nations Children Prepare and submit to the Association regular monitoring reports on the environmental, the Project’s progress report Fund (UNICEF) social, health and safety (ESHS) performance of the Project, including but not limited to throughout the Grant Agreement the implementation of the ESCP, status of preparation and implementation of E&S implementation period, commencing instruments required under the ESCP, stakeholder engagement activities, and after the Effective Date. functioning of the grievance mechanism. Submit each report to the Association no later than 45 days after the end of each reporting period. B INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS Notify the Association no later than 48 UNICEF Promptly notify the Association of any incident or accident related to the Project which hours after learning of the incident or has, or is likely to have, a significant adverse effect on the environment, the affected accident. communities, the public or workers, including, inter alia, sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA)/sexual harassment (SH), accidents that result in death, serious or multiple injury, Provide subsequent report to the among others. Provide sufficient detail regarding the scope, severity, and possible causes Association within 30 days of the initial of the incident or accident, indicating immediate measures taken or that are planned to notification; except for reporting on be taken to address it, and any information provided by any contractor and/or SEA/SH, for which the Recipient shall Implementing Partner, as appropriate. provide the subsequent report to the Association within 10 days of the initial Subsequently, at the Association’s request, prepare a report on the incident or accident notification. and propose any measures to address it and prevent its recurrence. Further details about reporting on SEA/SH will be set out in the Project Implementation Manual (PIM). C CONTRACTORS’ AND IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS’ REPORTS Submit summary of contractor and UNICEF Require contractors and other Implementing Partners to provide regular monitoring Implementing Partner reports as part of reports on (ESHS) performance in accordance with the metrics specified in the respective regular progress reports throughout the bidding documents and respective contracts/agreements. Grant Agreement implementation period. 3|Page MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY ESS1: ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RISKS AND IMPACTS 1.1 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE UNICEF will draw on existing E&S UNICEF Establish and maintain a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) with qualified staff and specialist capacity from other UNICEF resources to support the management of ESHS risks and impacts of the Project including offices to fill in capacity gaps as an one Social and Environmental Expert and qualified Gender and GBV/SEA/SH and Security interim measure pending the Focal Points assigned within the Country Office. recruitment of the specified E&S staff. A Social and Environmental Expert and qualified Gender and GBV/SEA/SH and Security Focal Points shall be assigned no later than 90 days after the Effective Date and shall be maintained throughout the Grant Agreement implementation period. 1.2 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INSTRUMENTS Adopt the ESMF prior to disbursement UNICEF Develop, consult, adopt, implement, and update as needed an Environmental and Social under Category 2, as defined in the Management Framework (ESMF) for Part 1 of the Project including E&S risk assessments Grant Agreement, and thereafter and management approaches/procedures, including social assessment and social risk implement and update as needed management framework1, proportionate to the risks identified with the targeted throughout the Grant Agreement stakeholders at the planning stage (e.g., technical assessments, community based implementation period. participatory planning, etc.), in accordance with the requirements of the relevant ESSs and acceptable to the Association. The ESMF, as an annex, will include Labour Prepare, adopt, and implement ESMPs Management Procedures (LMP), Security Management Framework (SMF), and Gender throughout the Grant Agreement Based Violence (GBV), Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (SEA) and Sexual Harassment (SH) implementation period and prior to Action Plan. carrying out any activities that require the adoption of such ESMP. 1 The social assessment and social risk management framework will identify the vulnerable and indigenous groups that need to be taken into consideration for meaningful participation in community consultation and inclusive community development planning as well as a community participatory planning methodology. The social assessment and social risk management framework will be initiated through desk review and complimented through detailed community participatory planning during project implementation. 4|Page MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY The ESMF will be disclosed prior to disbursement except agreed sensitive procedural sections of the GBV/SEA/SH Action Plan and SMF which will be redacted in the disclosed documents without compromising relevant information for stakeholders. Prepare, adopt, and implement corresponding Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs) for any community infrastructure works of the Project, consistent with the relevant ESSs and as stipulated in the ESMF. World Bank and UNICEF shall cooperate on an agile, streamlined, and implementation- focused format for the above instruments. 1.3 MANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTORS AND IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS Incorporate into the bidding documents UNICEF Incorporate by reference the relevant aspects of this ESCP and the ESMF and other E&S and respective contracts/agreements instruments into the ESHS specifications of the bidding documents and respective throughout the Grant Agreement contracts/agreements with contractors and Implementing Partners. Ensure that implementation period. necessary costing of relevant aspects is included as bid evaluation criteria of procurement procedures. Thereafter ensure that the contractors and Implementing Supervise contractors and Partners comply and cause subcontractors and primary suppliers to comply with the Implementing Partners throughout the ESHS specifications of their respective contracts. Grant Agreement implementation period. 1.4 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Throughout the Grant Agreement UNICEF Ensure that the capacity building, training, and any other technical assistance activities implementation period. under the Project are carried out in accordance with this ESCP and terms of reference acceptable to the Association, that are consistent with the ESSs. Thereafter ensure that the outputs of such activities comply with the terms of reference and this ESCP. ESS2: LABOR AND WORKING CONDITIONS 5|Page MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY 2.1 LABOR MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES Adopt the LMP as part of the ESMF by UNICEF As part of the Project ESMF, adopt, implement and update as needed the LMP for Part 1 the, as per 1.2 above, and thereafter of the Project, including, inter alia, provisions on working conditions, management of implement and update as needed workers relationships, occupational health and safety (including personal protective throughout the Grant Agreement equipment, and emergency preparedness and response), code of conduct (including implementation period. relating to GBV/SEA/SH), forced labor, child labor, grievance arrangements for Project workers, and applicable requirements for contractors, Implementing Partners and subcontractors. 2.2 GRIEVANCE MECHANISM Maintain a grievance mechanism and UNICEF Operate and update as needed a grievance mechanism that is accessible to Project operate and update it throughout the workers under Part 1, as described in the Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) and LMP Grant Agreement implementation and consistent with ESS2. period. ESS3: RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT 3.1 WASTE MANAGEMENT, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION AND Adopt as part of the ESMF, as per 1.2 UNICEF MANAGEMENT above, and thereafter implement them Adopt procedures for screening all subprojects under Part 1 of the Project, with and update as needed throughout the particular attention to material use, waste management, among others, and the Grant Agreement implementation associated risks and mitigation measures, as part of implementing the ESMF. period, respectively. ESS4: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY 4.1 TRAFFIC AND ROAD SAFETY Same timeframe as per 1.2 for the UNICEF Incorporate measures to manage traffic and road safety risks as required in the ESMF to adoption and implementation of the be prepared under action 1.2 above. ESMF. 4.2 COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY Same timeframe as per 1.2 for the UNICEF Assess and manage specific risks and impacts to the community arising from Part 1 of adoption and implementation of the the Project, including, inter alia, behavior of Project workers, risks of labor influx, and ESMF. include mitigation measures in the ESMPs to be prepared in accordance with the ESMF. 6|Page MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY 4.3 GENDER BASED VIOENCE (GBV)/SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE (SEA)/SEXUAL Adopt the GBV/SEA/SH Action Plan, and UNICEF HARRASSMENT (SH) thereafter implement it throughout the Adopt and implement a standalone GBV/SEA/SH Action Plan, with a summary of the plan Grant Agreement implementation as part of the ESMF to assess, prevent and manage the risks of GBV/SEA/SH. period. 4.4 SECURITY MANAGEMENT Adopt the SMF and thereafter UNICEF Prepare, implement a standalone Security Management Framework (SMF) and implement and update it throughout implement the security risk management measures consistent with the UN security the Grant Agreement implementation protocols and any measures necessary to ensure consistency with the ESF requirements period. including security risk assessment and any security management measures necessary for the implementation of the Project activities and for the provision of security to Project workers, sites and/or assets. ESS5: LAND ACQUISITION, RESTRICTIONS ON LAND USE AND INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT 5.1 ESS5 is not relevant at this stage. The ESMF shall also include principles and procedures Adopt and implement as part of the UNICEF for subproject screening. Based on the screening result, those subproject activities that ESMF, as under 1.2 above, and maintain involve resettlement and livelihood impacts will be excluded and will not be financed thereafter throughout the Grant under the Project. Agreement implementation period. ESS6: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF LIVING NATURAL RESOURCES 6.1 ESS6 is not relevant at this stage. The ESMF shall include principles and procedures for Adopt and implement as part of the UNICEF subproject screening. Based on the screening result, those subproject activities that ESMF, as under 1.2 above, and maintain would cause impacts relevant to ESS6 will be excluded and will not be financed under thereafter throughout the Grant the Project. Agreement implementation period. ESS7: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED TRADITIONAL LOCAL COMMUNITIES SSHUTLC) 7.1 SOCIAL ASSESSMENT AND SOCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK Adopt as part of the ESMF under 1.2 UNICEF Prepare a social assessment and social risk management framework (SA/SRMF) as part above and thereafter implement and of the ESMF to identify Indigenous Peoples/Sub-Saharan African Historically update them as needed throughout the Underserved Traditional Local Communities (SSHULTC) for meaningful and inclusive Grant Agreement implementation consultation, targeting, and implementation of activities of Part 1 of the Project. period. 7|Page MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY No situations that would require Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) are foreseen as the Project targets all ethnic groups. ESS8: CULTURAL HERITAGE 8.1 CULTURAL HERITAGE RISKS AND IMPACTS Adopt as part of the ESMF, as per 1.2 UNICEF Subprojects likely to be implemented within, or in the vicinity of, a known cultural above, and thereafter implement and heritage site, as subprojects with potential impacts on intangible cultural heritage will be update it as needed throughout the excluded from Project financing through the ESMF Screening procedure. Grant Agreement implementation period. Adopt, implement, and update as needed the Chance Find Procedures as part of the ESMF. ESS9: FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES ESS9 is not relevant at this stage. ESS10: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE 10.1 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PLAN PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION The SEP was disclosed on 19 December UNICEF Adopt and implement a Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP). The SEP shall include 2023. The SEP will be implemented and measures to provide stakeholders with timely, relevant, understandable, and accessible updated as needed throughout the information, and consult with them in a culturally appropriate manner, which is free of Grant Agreement implementation manipulation, interference, coercion, discrimination, and intimidation, in a manner period. consistent with ESS10 and acceptable to the Association. 10.2 PROJECT GRIEVANCE MECHANISM Maintain a functional GRM as described UNICEF in the SEP and update it as needed throughout the Grant Agreement implementation period. 8|Page MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY Publicize, maintain, operate, and update as needed an accessible grievance mechanism, building on UNICEF’s existing Community Feedback Mechanism, to receive and facilitate resolution of concerns and grievances in relation Part 1 of the Project, promptly and effectively, in a transparent manner that is culturally appropriate and readily accessible to all Project-affected parties including the indigenous people and vulnerable groups, at no cost and without retribution, including concerns and grievances filed anonymously, in a manner consistent with ESS10. The grievance mechanism shall be equipped, and updated as needed, to receive, register, and facilitate the resolution of all types of queries and complaints including GBV/SEA/SH complaints, including through the referral of survivors to relevant GBV service providers, all in a safe, confidential, and survivor-centered manner, with close coordination with internal focal points and external available services. CAPACITY SUPPORT CS1 Provide orientation/sensitization and training to targeted groups, including Project Provide training throughout the Grant UNICEF workers and staff, involved in Part 1 of the Project implementation, about ESCP related Agreement implementation period. relevant topics, including but not limited to, implementation of the E&S instruments, prevention of GBV/SEA/SH cases and other incidents/accidents, occupational health and safety, waste management and pollution prevention, stakeholder engagement, inclusion of Indigenous Peoples/SSHUTLCs and other vulnerable groups, grievance redress, community health and safety, and E&S monitoring and reporting as applicable. 9|Page World Food Programme Sudan SOMOUD Enhancing Community Resilience Project – Part 2 (P181490) Negotiated 10 | P a g e ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) April 2024 11 | P a g e ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN 5. The World Food Programme (the Recipient) will implement Part 2 of the Sudan Enhancing Community Resilience Project (the Project), as set out in the Grant Agreement. The International Development Association (the Association) in its own name and acting as an administrator of the Sudan Transition and Recovery Support Multi Donor Trust Fund has agreed to provide financing for the Project, as set out in the referred agreement. 6. The Recipient shall ensure that the Project is carried out in accordance with the Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs) and this Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP), in a manner acceptable to the Association. The ESCP is a part of the Grant Agreement. Unless otherwise defined in this ESCP, capitalized terms used in this ESCP have the meanings ascribed to them in the referred agreement. 7. Without limitation to the foregoing, this ESCP sets out material measures and actions that the Recipient shall carry out or cause to be carried out, including, as applicable, the timeframes of the actions and measures, institutional, staffing, training, monitoring, and reporting arrangements, and grievance management. The ESCP also sets out the environmental and social (E&S) instruments that shall be adopted and implemented under the Project, all of which shall be subject to prior consultation and disclosure, consistent with the relevant ESSs, and in form and substance, and in a manner acceptable to the Association. Once adopted, said E&S instruments may be revised from time to time with prior written agreement by the Association. 8. As agreed by the Association and the Recipient, this ESCP will be revised from time to time if necessary, during Project implementation, to reflect adaptive management of Project changes and unforeseen circumstances or in response to Project performance. In such circumstances, the Recipient through the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) and the Association agree to update the ESCP to reflect these changes through an exchange of letters signed between the Association and the WFP Country Representative. WFP shall promptly disclose the updated ESCP. 12 | P a g e ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP): Sudan SOMOUD - Enhancing Community Resilience Project – Component 2 (P181490) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY MONITORING AND REPORTING A REGULAR REPORTING Submit biannual reports to the Association World Food Programme Prepare and submit to the Association regular monitoring reports on the throughout Project implementation, commencing (WFP) environmental, social, health and safety (ESHS) performance of the Project, after Effective Date. including but not limited to the implementation of the ESCP, status of preparation WFP Project and implementation of E&S instruments required under the ESCP, stakeholder Submit each report to the Association no later Implementation Unit engagement activities, and functioning of the Recipient’s Community Feedback than 45 days after the end of each reporting (WFP PIU) Mechanism. period. B INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS Notify the Association within 48 hours after WFP PIU Promptly notify the Association of any incident or accident related to the Project learning of the incident or accident, in line with which has, or is likely to have, a significant adverse effect on the environment, the reporting template agreed upon with the affected communities, the public or workers, including, inter alia, cases of sexual Association. exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment (SH), and accidents that result in death, serious or multiple injury, or security breach, Provide sufficient detail A detailed report of the incident shall be provided regarding the scope, severity, and possible causes of the incident or accident, within thirty (30) days subsequent to the initial indicating immediate measures taken or that are planned to be taken to address report of the incident or accident, unless a it, and any information provided by any contractor and/or supervising firm, as different timeline is agreed with the Association. appropriate. For reporting on SEA/SH, provide subsequent report to the Association within 10 days of the Subsequently, at the Association’s request, prepare a report on the incident or initial notification. accident and propose relevant measures to address it and prevent its recurrence. Further details about reporting on SEA/SH will be WFP will follow its protocol in order to comply with the Environmental and Social set out in the Project Implementation Manual Standards and reporting obligations under the Grant Agreement, including when (PIM). allegations are reported to its Office of Inspections and Investigations. Overall, the ESF and provisions in the Grant Agreement shall govern and the WFP protocol is a means of implementation of the ESSs. C CONTRACTORS’ MONTHLY REPORTS Submit the monthly reports to the Association WFP PIU upon request and as annexes to the reports to be Require Contractors and supervising firms to provide monthly monitoring reports submitted under action A above. on ESHS performance in accordance with the metrics specified in the respective bidding documents and contracts, and submit such reports to the Association. ESS 1: ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RISKS AND IMPACTS 13 | P a g e ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP): Sudan SOMOUD - Enhancing Community Resilience Project – Component 2 (P181490) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY 1.1 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Relevant organizational structure shall be WFP Establish and maintain a Project Implementation Unit (PIU) with qualified staff established within 30 days of the Effective Date and resources to support the management of ESHS risks and impacts of Part 2 of and shall be maintained throughout the Grant the Project including at least one Environmental Specialist and one Social Agreement implementation period. Safeguard Specialist within the WFP Country Office, and dedicated ESHS focal points within field-based offices to support management of ESHS risks and impacts of Part 2 of the Project, including gender and prevention of GBV/SEA/SH. 1.2 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL INSTRUMENTS Adopt the ESMF prior to disbursement under WFP PIU Adopt, implement and update as needed, an Environmental and Social Categories 1 and 2, and thereafter implement and Management Framework (ESMF) for Part 2 of the Project, consistent with the update it as needed throughout the Grant relevant ESSs. Agreement implementation period. Prepare, adopt and implement corresponding Environmental and Social Prepare, adopt, and implement ESMPs Management Plans (ESMPs) for any community infrastructure works of the throughout the Grant Agreement implementation Project, consistent with the relevant ESSs and as stipulated in the ESMF. period and prior to carrying out any activities that require the adoption of such ESMP. 2 1.3 MANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTORS Prior to launching procurement processes WFP PIU and Contractors Incorporate the relevant aspects of this ESCP, including inter alia the ESMF, the integrate relevant aspects into the preparation of ESMPs, and the Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) and other E&S instruments the bidding documents. into the ESHS specifications of the bidding documents and respective contracts with Contractors. Supervise Contractors throughout the Grant Agreement implementation period. Ensure that necessary costing of relevant aspects is included as bid evaluation criteria in procurement procedures. Thereafter ensure that the relevant Contractors comply with the ESHS specifications and cause subcontractors to comply with the ESHS specifications of their respective contracts. 1.4 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE Throughout the Grant Agreement WFP PIU implementation period 2 For the purposes of this Project, “Contractors� are defined as the Implementing Partners and any other contractors as agreed between the Association an d the Recipient. 14 | P a g e ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP): Sudan SOMOUD - Enhancing Community Resilience Project – Component 2 (P181490) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY Ensure that the capacity building, training, and any other technical assistance activities under the Project are carried out in accordance with terms of reference acceptable to the Association, that are consistent with the ESSs. Thereafter ensure that the outputs of such activities comply with the terms of reference and the ESSs. ESS 2: LABOR AND WORKING CONDITIONS 2.1 LABOR MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES Adopt the LMP prior to disbursement under WFP PIU and Contractors Adopt, implement and update as needed the Labor Management Procedures Categories 1 and 2, as per 1.2 as part of the ESMF, (LMP) for Part 2 of the Project, including, inter alia, provisions on working and thereafter implement and update as needed conditions, management of workers’ relationships, occupational health and safety throughout the Grant Agreement implementation (OHS), including personal protective equipment, and emergency preparedness period. and response, code of conduct (including relating to GBV/SEA/SH), forced labor, child labor, efficient grievance arrangements for all Project Workers as described in the LMP. Risks foreseen shall be further managed in line with WFP’s Policy on Occupational Safety and Health (2016), encompassed within the updated LMP. The LMP shall outline the OHS requirements including reference to WB OHS Guidelines as outlined in the ESS2. 2.2 GRIEVANCE MECHANISM FOR PROJECT WORKERS Continue to operate WFP Community Feedback WFP PIU Operate the existing WFP Community Feedback Mechanism for Project workers Mechanism throughout the Grant Agreement under Part 2, as described in the SEP and LMP and consistent with ESS2. implementation period. ESS 3: RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT 3.1 RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT Adopt and implement as part of the ESMF prior to WFP PIU The ESMF shall include procedures for screening, prevention and management disbursement under Categories 1 and 2, as per measures for all sub-projects, with particular attention to material use, waste 1.2, and implement and update it as needed management, and climate-smart productive practices, among others. throughout the Grant Agreement implementation period. An Integrated Pest Management Plan (IPMP) shall be prepared and adopted as part of the ESMF for agricultural activities implemented under Part 2 of the Project. 15 | P a g e ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP): Sudan SOMOUD - Enhancing Community Resilience Project – Component 2 (P181490) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY ESS 4: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY 4.1 TRAFFIC AND ROAD SAFETY Same timeframe as per 1.2 for the adoption and WFP PIU Incorporate measures to manage traffic and road safety risks as required in the implementation of the ESMF ESMF to be prepared under action 1.2 above. 4.2 COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY Same timeframe as per 1.2 for the adoption and WFP PIU and Contractors Assess and manage specific risks and impacts to the community arising from implementation of the ESMPs Project activities under Part 2, including, inter alia, behavior of Project workers, risks of labor influx, and include mitigation measures in the ESMPs to be prepared in accordance with the ESMF. WFP's community based participatory planning (CBPP) tools will incorporate community health and safety related risk assessment and mitigation measures aligned to the ESMF. 4.3 GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE/SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE (SEA)/SEXUAL Adopt the GBV/SEA/SH Action Plan as part of the WFP PIU and Contractors HARRASSMENT (SH) ESMF prior to disbursement under Categories 1 Prepare, adopt and implement a GBV/SEA/SH Action Plan as part of the ESMF to and 2, and as per 1.2 and thereafter implement assess, prevent and manage related risks. the GBV/SEA/SH Action Plan throughout the Grant Agreement implementation period. WFP personnel and Contractors involved in the implementation of the Project sites under Part 2 shall be required to adhere to the Action Plan as well as the respective provisions in the LMP. 4.4 SECURITY MANAGEMENT Adopt the SRA and SMP prior to disbursement WFP Adopt, implement and update as needed a Security Risk Assessment and Security under Categories 1 and 2, and thereafter Management Plan (SRA/SMP) to employ in the event of physical engagement in implement the SMP throughout the Grant high-risk or conflict prone areas. Agreement implementation period. 16 | P a g e ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP): Sudan SOMOUD - Enhancing Community Resilience Project – Component 2 (P181490) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY WFP shall assess and implement measures to manage the security risks of Part 2 the Project in accordance with WFP’s security framework and the ESF, including assessment of the risks of engaging security personnel to safeguard Project workers, sites, assets, and activities. The SRA and SMP will be guided by the ESF, the principle of proportionality, Good International Industry Practice (GIIP), and by law applicable to relevant security service providers, in relation to hiring, rules of conduct, training, equipping, and monitoring of such personnel, as appropriate and applicable. ESS 5: LAND ACQUISITION, RESTRICTIONS ON LAND USE AND INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT 5.1 ESS5 is considered not relevant. The ESMF shall include principles and procedures Adopt and implement as part of the ESMF, as WFP PIU for subproject screening. Based on the screening result, those subproject activities under 1.2 above, and maintain thereafter that involve resettlement and livelihood impacts will be excluded and will not be throughout the Grant Agreement implementation financed under the project. period. ESS 6: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF LIVING NATURAL RESOURCES 6.1 ESS6 is not considered relevant at this stage and the exclusion list in the Adopt as part of the ESMF prior to disbursement WFP PIU ESMF will be applied to exclude related impacts. In case any subproject under Categories 1 and 2 as per 1.2 and deemed important to reach the project objectives would imply unavoidable thereafter implement it throughout the Grant biodiversity/natural habitat impacts, ESS6 will become relevant and a subproject- Agreement implementation. specific ESMP will identify potential impacts and the necessary mitigation and management measures to minimize such impacts. ESS 7: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED TRADITIONAL LOCAL COMMUNITIES 7.1 SOCIAL ASSESSMENT/INDIGENOUS PEOPLES PLANNING FRAMEWORK Adopt SA and SDP as part of the ESMF prior to WFP PIU Prepare a Social Assessment (SA) including a Social Development Plan (SDP) as disbursement under Categories 1 and 2 as per 1.2 part of the ESMF and set principles of Indigenous Peoples/ Sub-Saharan African and thereafter implement and update as needed Historically Underserved Traditional Local Communities consultation, targeting, throughout the Grant Agreement implementation and implementing Part 2 activities. period. ESS 8: CULTURAL HERITAGE 17 | P a g e ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP): Sudan SOMOUD - Enhancing Community Resilience Project – Component 2 (P181490) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY 8.1 CULTURAL HERITAGE RISKS AND IMPACTS Adopt as part of the ESMF prior to disbursement WFP PIU Prepare, adopt, implement and update, as needed, a Chance Find Procedure as under Categories 1 and 2 as per 1.2 and part of the ESMF. thereafter implement and update it as needed throughout the Grant Agreement implementation period. ESS 9: FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES 9.1 ESS9 is not currently relevant ESS 10: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE 10.1 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PLAN PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION The SEP was prepared and disclosed on December WFP PIU Adopt and implement a Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP). The SEP shall include 19, 2023. The SEP shall be updated (as needed) measures to provide stakeholders with timely, relevant, understandable, and and implemented throughout the Grant accessible information, and consult with them in a culturally appropriate manner, Agreement implementation period. which is free of manipulation, interference, coercion, discrimination, and intimidation, in a manner consistent with ESS10. 10.2 PROJECT GRIEVANCE MECHANISM Functional GRM as described in the SEP, as per WFP PIU Operate WFP’s existing Community Feedback Mechanism, to receive and facilitate 10.1 shall be maintained, operated, and updated resolution of concerns and grievances in relation to Part 2 of the Project, promptly as needed throughout the Grant Agreement and effectively, in a transparent manner that is culturally appropriate and readily implementation period. accessible to all Part2-affected parties including the indigenous people and vulnerable groups, at no cost and without retribution, including concerns and grievances filed anonymously, in a manner consistent with ESS10. The mechanism shall be equipped, and updated as needed, to receive, register, and facilitate the resolution of GBV/SEA/SH complaints, including through the referral of survivors to relevant GBV service providers, all in a safe, confidential, and survivor-centered manner. CAPACITY SUPPORT 18 | P a g e ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP): Sudan SOMOUD - Enhancing Community Resilience Project – Component 2 (P181490) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY CS1 Prepare a training and capacity building plan for Part 2 of the Project as part of the Adopt the capacity building plan as part of the WFP PIU ESMF. Deliver trainings to identified Project targeted beneficiaries, local ESMF under 1.2 and implement it throughout the communities, and other identified stakeholders, to enhance their awareness of Grant Agreement implementation period. and mitigate environmental, social and health and safety risks and impacts, including but not limited to the following: ▪ Specific aspects of environmental, social, health, security and safety assessment and risk management ▪ Rollout of and compliance with the ESMF, including climate-smart agriculture and integrated pest management ▪ Labor Management, including Occupational and Community Health, Safety, and Security ▪ GBV/ SEA/SH risk mitigation and response to incidents ▪ Stakeholder mapping and engagement ▪ Grievance Redress and Feedback Mechanism, including procedures to GBV/SEA/SH complaints procedures. ▪ Identification and management of security issues CS2 Training for Project workers under Part 2 shall include, as appropriate: Adopt the capacity building plan as part of the WFP PIU ▪ Labor Management, OHS and provisions of workers, as well as those of ESMF under 1.2 and implement it throughout the targeted communities. Grant Agreement implementation period. ▪ Security issues and their prevention, management, and reporting ▪ GBV/SEA/SH prevention and response ▪ GRM, including procedures to GBV/SEA/SH complaints. 19 | P a g e