Republic of South Sudan Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (P169120) Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) April 29, 2021 1|Page ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN 1. The Government of South Sudan (GoSS) will implement the South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (the Project), with the involvement of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS). The International Development Association (hereinafter the Association) has agreed to provide financing for the Project. 2. The GoSS shall implement material measures and actions so that the Project is implemented in accordance with the World Bank Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs). This Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) sets out material measures and actions, any specific documents or plans, as well as the timing for each of these. 3. GoSS shall also comply with the provisions of any other E&S documents required under the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and referred to in this ESCP that will be developed for the Project, such as the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF), the Security Management Plan, Cultural and Chance Find Procedures, Stakeholder Engagement Framework and Plans, Labor Management Procedures, Social Assessment, Crisis and Emergency Management Plan, and the timelines specified in those E&S documents. 4. Notwithstanding any other provision in this ESCP, the GoSS is responsible for compliance with all requirements of the ESCP even when implementation of specific measures and actions is conducted by MAFS or another ministry or another implementing agency, contractor, or any other entity or unit for the Project. 5. Implementation of the material measures and actions set out in this ESCP shall be monitored and reported to the Association by the GoSS as required by the ESCP, the E&S instruments referred to in the ESCP, and the conditions of the legal agreement, and the Association will monitor and assess progress and completion of the material measures and actions throughout implementation of the Project. 6. As agreed by the GoSS, through the MAFS, and the Association, this ESCP may be revised from time to time during Project implementation, to reflect adaptive management of Project changes and unforeseen circumstances or in response to assessment of Project performance conducted under the ESCP itself. In such circumstances, the GoSS, through the MAFS, will agree to the changes with the Association and will update the ESCP to reflect such changes. Agreement on changes to the ESCP will be documented through an exchange of letters signed between the Association and the MAFS. The MAFS shall promptly disclose the updated ESCP. 7. Where Project changes, unforeseen circumstances, or Project performance result in changes to the environmental or social risks and impacts during Project implementation, the MAFS shall provide additional funds, if needed, to implement actions and measures to address such risks and impacts, which may include environmental, health, and safety impacts, gender- based violence, and impacts from conflict and violence. 2|Page South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan Responsibility/ Authority And Material Measures And Actions Timeframe Resources/Funding Committed MONITORING AND REPORTING A REGULAR REPORTING: Prepare and submit to the Association regular Monitoring reports: Quarterly and Responsibility: MAFS Project monitoring reports on the environmental, social, health and safety (ESHS) annually, throughout Project Coordination Unit (PCU) team performance of the Project, including but not limited to, the implementation implementation. of the ESCP, status of preparation and implementation of E&S documents required under the ESCP, stakeholder engagement plan, and the grievance mechanism. In addition, prepare and submit to the Association a mid-term MTR: by midterm of the Project report (MTR) and a project completion report. implementation. Hire an independent Third-Party Monitoring Agent (TPMA) to Project completion report: submit to independently monitor and review Project performance on a six-monthly the Association 90 days prior to end basis. These reports shall be made available to the MAFS and, upon request, of the Project. Funding: Project Funds to the Association. The TPMA shall: (i) track project environmental and social performance; (ii) identify key technical and procedural issues, TPMA to be hired within 180 days of bottleneck and recommend improvements as necessary; and (iii) document Project Effectiveness. Reports: every key experiences and learning. six months and upon Project completion. B INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS: Promptly notify the Association of any Notify the Association within 48 hours Responsibility: MAFS PCU team incident or accident related to the Project which has, or is likely to have, a after becoming aware of the incident or significant adverse effect on the environment, the affected communities, the accident. public or workers in accordance with the project ESMF and any further guidelines as the Association may communicate. Reporting shall provide sufficient details regarding the incident or accident, Funding: Project Funds indicating immediate measures taken to address it, and include information A detailed report of the incident would provided by any contractor and supervising entity, as appropriate. be provided within fifteen (15) days. Subsequently, as per the Association’s request, prepare a report on the incident or accident and propose any measures to prevent its recurrence within an agreed timeframe. 3|Page South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan Responsibility/ Authority And Material Measures And Actions Timeframe Resources/Funding Committed Other incidents and accidents not subject to immediate notification and reporting in accordance with this provision shall be included in the quarter Project reports pursuant to action A of this ESCP. ESS 1: ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RISKS AND IMPACTS 1.1 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE: Responsibility: MAFS PCU team a. Maintain throughout Project implementation effective staffing and institutional structures to support the management of the Project E&S risks. a. The PCU, including environmental To that end, the PCU shall be structured as detailed in the ESMF, with full and social risk management staff, shall Funding: Project Funds a team of qualified staff and resources at the central level and focal points be established no later than 90 days on the local level. MAFS shaland maintain one Environmental Specialist after Project Effectiveness and with experience in Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), one Social maintained throughout Project Specialist, and one Gender Specialist with strong GBV experience as part implementation. of the PCU team. The PCU shall further engage GBV service providers, and train selected local officers and community members in areas where GBV services are absent. (b) As needed starting 90 days after b. Mobilize additional staff on short-term or long-term assignment as Project effectiveness and maintained necessary to manage the E&S risks of the Project in accordance with the throughout project implementation. ESSs and ESMF institutional assessment/needs, including subject matter specialists on GBV/SEA, labor conditions (including child labor, forced labor, health & safety), land tenure, and social inclusion. c. Provisions to be imposed upon c. IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS: In the event that the Food contracting with FAO and compliance and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is contracted as monitored throughout project the lead technical partner for implementation of the Project, all the implementation. responsibilities with regards to the Environmental and Social Risk Management for the Project set out herein shall be imposed on FAO and clearly articulated in the contracting agreement, and the GoSS shall ensure that FAO complies with those obligations in a manner satisfactory to the Association. 4|Page South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan Responsibility/ Authority And Material Measures And Actions Timeframe Resources/Funding Committed 1.2 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL ASSESSMENT: Responsibility: MAFS PCU team a. Conduct scoping of key environmental and social risks and impacts of a. ESMF to be prepared, consulted on, the Project and identify appropriate mitigation measures as further and disclosed within 60 days of Project described in 1.3 in accordance with the Environmental and Social Effectiveness. Management Framework (ESMF) and the ESSs. b. Undertake site-specific environmental and social risk screening and b. Before commencement of relevant Funding: Project Funds impact assessments for sub-projects in accordance with the ESMF. All Project activities, throughout Project activities that may lead to high E&S risks shall be excluded from the Project and implementation. ineligible for Project financing, in particular all activities that might involve in involuntary land acquisition as detailed in and the exclusion list in the ESMF. c. Screen any proposed subprojects and activities in accordance with the c. Screening and E&S instruments to ESMF prepared for the Project, and, thereafter, draft, adopt, and implement be adopted prior to commencement of the subproject Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP), and relevant sub-project activities. any other instruments (e.g. voluntary land donation framework, Stakeholder Thereafter, E&S instruments to be Engagement Framework, Security Management Plan, Labor Management complied with and implemented Procedure, pest management plan) as the ESMF and ESSs require for the throughout Project implementation. respective subproject activities, in a manner acceptable to the Association. 1.3 MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS: Prepare, consult on, ESMF to be prepared, consulted on, Responsibility: MAFS PCU team disclose, adopt, maintain, and implement an Environmental and Social and disclosed within 60 days of Management Framework (ESMF) satisfactory to the Association to screen Project Effectiveness. Thereafter, and manage the environmental and social risks and impacts of the Project in implement ESMF throughout Project accordance with the ESSs. The ESMF shall include the following elements, implementation. among others: Funding: Project Funds • Overall Project-wide Environmental and Social Risks assessment in line with the ESSs, including management and mitigation procedures for handling environmental and social risks resulting from the Project in the South Sudanese context. • Social assessment of risks of discrimination, community and inter- communal tensions, violence, and other relevant social risks, and corresponding mitigation measures in a social development plan. 5|Page South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan Responsibility/ Authority And Material Measures And Actions Timeframe Resources/Funding Committed • Framework for Addressing Gender-Based and Child Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Harassment against Women and Children to guide the development of subproject-specific GBV-SEA Action Plans. • Labour Management Procedures (LMP), including a workers’ Grievance Redress Mechanism. • Stakeholder Engagement Framework (SEF), including a community Grievance Redress Mechanism. • Voluntary Land Donation Framework. • Provisions to determine whether and when a Resettlement Policy Framework is required for specific circumstance not covered by the voluntary land donation framework • Capacity Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) shall be prepared as part of the ESMF or a stand-alone plan with clear monitoring indicators. • Procedures for screening of Environmental & Social risks and impacts of subproject activities. • Templates for site-specific mitigation measures to be included in ESIAs/ESMPs. • Organizational structure and resource planning. • Monitoring and reporting system. • Crisis and Emergency Management Plan; and • Security Management Plan. The ESMF shall be disclosed in country in both English and the local ESIAs/ESMPs to be adopted and language(s), as well as on the MAFS website and external website of the disclosed prior to commencement of Association. subproject activities and implemented throughout Project implementation. In addition, prepare, adopt, maintain, and implement site-specific ESIAs/ESMPs in line with the screening, assessment, and mitigation procedures of the ESMF. The site-specific documents shall be disclosed to stakeholders, including local communities, in accordance with the Stakeholder Engagement Plan. 6|Page South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan Responsibility/ Authority And Material Measures And Actions Timeframe Resources/Funding Committed 1.4 MANAGEMENT OF FAO, CONTRACTORS AND OTHER Responsibility: MAFS PCU team IMPLEMENTING PARTNERS: Develop and implement procedures for managing project employees, Funding: Project Funds contractors, and subcontractors. This shall include the following: a) Environmental and social requirements shall be included in the procurement and contracting process, including bidding documents, for potential civil works. a, b, c, and d prior to the launching of b) Relevant requirements shall be included in contracts and procurement documents and subcontracts consistent with the requirements of ESSs. maintained throughout Project c) Codes of conduct shall be required for contractors, subcontractors, implementation. primary suppliers, and their workers. d) Preparation of a detailed ESMPs that are costed, with enough budget to mitigate E&S risks, shall be required. e) MAFS shall monitor contractor commitment and compliance with ESSs and contract and subcontract terms as applicable. f) Establish grievance redress mechanisms for contractors and subcontractors, workers, affected communities and other e, f, and g, and h prior to stakeholders to handle concerns and complaints. commencement of subproject g) Ensure and require that contractors prepare and implement C- activities, thereafter, maintained ESMPs. throughout Project implementation. h) Ensure and require that contractors adopt and implement a subproject Labor Management Plan (LMP) consistent with the Project LMP and ESS2. 1.5 PERMIT, CONSENTS AND AUTHORIZATIONS: Obtain or ensure Obtain permits, consents and Responsibility: MAFS PCU team that contractors obtain, as appropriate, the permits, consents, and authorizations. prior to initiating authorizations that are applicable to the Project from relevant national activities, and thereafter comply with Funding: Project Funds authorities, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and with the these permits, consents and ESMF. authorizations. throughout Project implementation. • Comply and cause contractors to comply, as appropriate, with the conditions established in these permits, consents, and authorizations throughout Project implementation. • Obtain Clearances from South Sudan Authorities as necessary. 7|Page South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan Responsibility/ Authority And Material Measures And Actions Timeframe Resources/Funding Committed • Obtain Clearances from the Association as set out in the ESMF or otherwise necessary 1.6 THIRD PARTY MONITORING: MAFS in accordance with action A of TPMA hire within 180 days of Project Responsibility: MAFS PCU team this ESCP, engage a Third-Party Monitoring Agency to provide effectiveness and maintained independent review of environmental and social performance of the project, throughout project implementation Funding: Project Funds including adherence to all E&S instruments of the Project in accordance with Terms of Reference to be prepared by MAFS cleared by the Association, and implemented by MAFS to the satisfaction of the Association. MAFS shall prepare, adopt, and implement terms of reference for this Third- Party Monitoring to the satisfaction of the Association. 1.7 EMERGENCY RESPONSE MEASURES: CONTINGENCY To be prepared, consulted on, and Responsibility: MAFS PCU team EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMPONENT (CERC): MAFS shall disclosed as part of the ESMF within integrate CERC activities as part of the ESMF to be prepared for the 60 days of Project Effectiveness. Funding: Project Funds Project and, in the event of CERC activation as a result of an eligible crisis Thereafter implement CERC or emergency, update the ESMF if necessary to account for CERC throughout implementation of CERC activities, and thereafter implement the CERC activities in accordance activities. with the ESMF. 8|Page South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan ESS 2: LABOR AND WORKING CONDITIONS 2.1 LABOR MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES (LMP): Develop, LMP to be prepared, consulted on, Responsibility: MAFS PCU team adopt, and implement the LMP for the Project in accordance with and disclosed within 60 days of Funding: Project Funds ESS2 to the satisfaction of the Association. Project Effectiveness and maintained throughout Project MAFS shall ensure compliance with the LMP by all Project implementation. employees and contracted institutions. 2.2 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MEASURES Adopt measures prior to engaging Responsibility: MAFS PCU team (OHS): Prepare and implement adequate occupational health and Project workers, and implement Funding: Project Funds safety measures for Project workers (including security and other them throughout Project emergency preparedness and response measures) in accordance with implementation the ESS2 and the World Bank Group EHS Guidelines as part of the ESMF, LMP and other subsequent ESSs; including but not limited to instruments prepared under the Project and subproject ESMPESMPs. 2.3 WORKERS WORKING ENVIRONMENT: Ensure a non- Adopt measures prior to engaging Responsibility: MAFS PCU team discriminatory, decent work environment for all Project workers, Project workers, and implement Funding: Project Funds consistent with ESS2, including by ensuring that all Project workers them throughout Project adhere to the ESHS code of conduct. implementation 2.4 GRIEVANCE MECHANISM FOR PROJECT WORKERS: In GRM to be operationalized prior to Responsibility: MAFS PCU team addition to the GRM required under 10.3, establish a dedicated GRM engaging Project workers and Funding: Project Funds for Project workers and the subproject host communities, including a maintained thereafter throughout hotline and assignment of focal points to address these grievances for Project implementation issues that fall under ESS2. 2.5 EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE: As part of Adopt measures prior to engaging Responsibility: MAFS PCU team the OHS measures specified in action 2.2, include measures on Project workers, and implement Funding: Project Funds Emergency Preparedness and Response. them throughout Project implementation 2.6 PROJECT WORKERS TRAINING: Train Project workers to Complete trainings prior to start of Responsibility: MAFS PCU team heighten awareness of occupational health and safety risks to Project civil works, and regular refresher Funding: Project Funds workers and to mitigate potential impacts on local communities, as trainings thereafter throughout spelled out in ESMF, IPMF, LMP, ESMPs and GBV Action Plan. Project implementation. 9|Page South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan ESS 3: RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT 3.1 MANAGEMENT OF WASTE AND HAZARDOUS Measures to be adopted prior to Responsibility: MAFS PCU team MATERIALS. As part of the ESMF and subproject ESMPs, initiating construction of Funding: Project Funds develop and implement measures and procedures for managing subprojects, and thereafter general, liquid, and hazardous waste materials during Project maintained throughout Project implementation and operation, in accordance with ESS3 implementation. requirements. ESMF shall include general measures and specific ones shall be developed and included in subproject ESMPs. 3.2 RESOURCE EFFICIENCY and POLLUTION Measures to be adopted prior to Responsibility: MAFS PCU team MANAGEMENT. In accordance with ESS3, as part of the ESMF, initiating construction of develop and implement measures and procedures for managing subprojects, and thereafter Funding: Project Funds natural resources to avoid adverse impacts on community shared maintained throughout Project resources and/or adverse environmental impacts, and resource implementation. efficiency. In accordance with ESS3, require contractors to prepare respective measures to minimize and/or avoid pollution as part of the subprojects (C)ESMP’s. 3.3 PEST MANAGEMENT. In the event that the CERC is activated and a. Plan to be adopted prior to Responsibility: MAFS PCU team CERC activities require the use of chemical pesticides, an Integrated initiating subproject and Pest Management Plan (IPMP) shall be prepared, adopted, and maintained throughout sub-project Funding: Project Funds implemented throughout the relevant activities. The IPMP shall implementation. include measures for (i) adequate design of pesticides transportation, storage, handling, and management facilities; (ii) management of stocks in an effective, efficient, and transparent way, (iii) improvement of the capacity of health centers in the treatment of pesticide poisoning incidents; (iv) disposal of unwanted or surplus insecticides shall follow the applicable requirements under the relevant ESSs, the EHSGs, and other relevant GIIP. 10 | P a g e South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan ESS 4: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY 4.1 COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY FROM Responsibility: MAFS PCU team CONSTRUCTION AND CONFLICT IMPACTS: a. Measures to be adopted prior to a. The measures and actions necessary to assess and manage initiating subproject activities, and Funding: Project Funds subproject activity specific risks and impacts on communities in thereafter maintained throughout accordance with ESS4 shall be spelled out in the ESMF and Project implementation subsequent subproject ESMPs. b. Conflict Sensitivity Tool to be b. A Conflict Sensitivity Tool shall be developed and adopted as part adopted as part of ESMF on of the ESMF to assess and manage specific risks and impacts related timeframe in 1.3, and conflict-related to conflicts. Based on this Tool, measures and actions shall be adopted measures included in sub-project and implemented as part of subproject ESMPs to manage the risks of ESMPs on timeframe in 1.3. conflict related to subproject activities. 4.2 TRAFFIC AND ROAD SAFETY: In consultation with the host Site specific plans to be prepared Responsibility: MAFS PCU team communities, adopt and implement measures and actions to assess before subproject activity is initiated and manage traffic and road safety risks—including those resulting and implemented and maintained Funding: Project Funds from movement of Project related vehicles transporting Project throughout Project implementation. workers and any project related goods and materials—on Project workers and the community, as required in the Project ESMF and General traffic and road management subproject ESMPs. plan to be prepared as annex to the ESMF Maintained throughout Project implementation 11 | P a g e South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan 4.3 GBV AND SEA RISKS: Responsibility: MAFS PCU team (a) Undertake assessment of Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Sexual a) On timeframes specified in 1.2 Funding: Project Funds Exploitation and Abuse SEA/Child Protection risks and identify and comply with mitigation mitigation measures and actions. measures throughout Project implementation (b) MAFS shall prepare a Framework for Addressing Gender-Based and Child Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Harassment against b) As part of ESMF on timeframe Women and Children to guide the development of subproject- specified in 1.3. specific GBV-SEA Action Plans as part of the ESMF (c) Develop, adopt, and implement a GBV/SEA/Child Protection c) Adopt within 60 days of Project Action Plan. Effectiveness, and implement and comply with mitigation (d) Assess GBV and child protective referral pathway service measures throughout Project providers in the Project-affected communities using good practice implementation standards of care, identify gaps and propose gap filling measures including preparing a strategy for service provision. Terms of d) Same as timeline in (c). reference for this activity shall be reviewed and approved by the Association. e) No later than 90 days after Project Effectiveness and (e) Recruit a Gender Specialist with strong GBV experience in the maintained throughout Project PCU, engage GBV service providers, and train selected local implementation officers and community members with support of UNFPA in areas where GBV services are absent. f) On timeframe specified in action A for TPMA. (f) Ensure that Third-Party Monitor (TPM) hired in accordance with action A of this ESCP is charged with overseeing implementation of measures to mitigate the risks to women and children as outlined in the Framework for Addressing Gender-Based and Child Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Harassment against Women and Children. 12 | P a g e South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan 4.4 SECURITY PERSONNEL: In the event that security personnel is Prior to initiating subproject activity Responsibility: MAFS PCU team involved in the Project, MAFS shall develop, implement, and require and prior to deploying any security Funding: Project Funds any contractors to develop and implement, measures and actions to personnel and thereafter maintained assess and manage the risks to Project-affected communities and throughout Project implementation. Project workers that could arise from the use of security personnel, in accordance with the framework provisions in the ESMF and the Security Management Plan in 4.5. 4.5 SECURITY MANAGEMENT: MAFS shall adopt and implement Prepared, consulted on, and Responsibility: MAFS PCU team across all Project activities involving security personnel a Security disclosed within sixty days of Funding: Project Funds Management Plan (SMP) consistent with ESS4 and acceptable to the Project Effectiveness and in any Association. The SMP shall be designed to protect all Project event before the deployment of workers and Project-affected people from risk of violence in the security personnel, maintained region or and from the risks of hiring security personnel. throughout Project implementation. 4.6 TRAINING FOR THE COMMUNITY. As outlined in SEF, MAFS Prior to initiating subproject activity, Responsibility: MAFS PCU team shall ensure trainings are delivered to the Project workers and the with regular refresher training, community to heighten their awareness on Project-related maintained throughout Project Funding: Project Funds environmental and social risks and impacts and mitigation measures, implementation. including trainings on (not exhaustive): • Communicable diseases, including COVID-19 • HIV-AIDS/STI/GBV/SEA/ Child labor awareness and prevention • Community grievance redress mechanism as described in the SEF/ ESMF/ Framework for Addressing Gender-Based and Child Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Harassment against Women and Children • Road Safety Awareness • Soil and water management 13 | P a g e South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan ESS 5: LAND ACQUISITION, RESTRICTIONS ON LAND USE AND INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT 5.1 LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT: Responsibility: MAFS PCU team 1. The project activities are not expected to require land acquisition, (1) Voluntary Land Donation restrictions on land use or involuntary resettlement. However, if Framework shall be prepared, Funding: Project Funds land is needed for the Project, it shall be acquired only through consulted on, and disclosed voluntary land donations or other measures consistent with ESS5, within sixty of Project as necessary. The voluntary land donations must follow the Effectiveness. procedure outlined in the ESMF and be consistent with requirements outlined in ESS5. Any land acquired must be: Maintained throughout Project (i) identified through a participatory community-level process, implementation including all legitimate tenure right holders and all legitimate rights, and (ii) in line with the voluntary land donation framework outlined within the annex to the ESMF and (iii) do not pressurize land use right holders to donate or deny project benefits as a result (2) list of exclusions/limitations of denying voluntarily donating land. finalized prior to commencing 2. A list of limitations on different types of interventions shall be Project activities and enforced included in the ESMF, to be screened during subproject throughout Project development. The ESMF must include respective screening implementation. procedures to be implemented by the Project. 3. Special circumstances requiring a different approach shall be addressed on an ad-hoc basis following prior review and approval (3) The voluntary land donation by the Association of detailed plans consistent with ESS5. guidelines and the outlined 4. The ESMF shall identify and include provisions to determine process shall be followed and whether and when a Resettlement Policy Framework be required documented to the satisfaction for specific circumstance not covered by the voluntary land of the Association for each donation program. subproject activities involving voluntary land donation. This process shall be adopted prior to commencement of any subproject activity. (4) The ESMF shall include provisions when RPF will be required for specific circumstances not by the VLDF and disclosed within sixty days of Project Effectiveness. 14 | P a g e South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan ESS 6: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF LIVING NATURAL RESOURCES 6.1 BIODIVERSITY RISKS AND IMPACTS: a. As part of the ESMF, prepared, Responsibility: MAFS PCU team a. As part of the ESMF, screening procedures for biodiversity risks consulted on, and disclosed within Funding: Project Funds and impacts likely to occur during implementation of the project sixty days after the Effective Date activities shall be developed to ensure proposed activities are not and maintained throughout project located within critical natural habitats. implementation b. Further, the ESMF shall include procedures to screen subprojects b. list of exclusions finalized prior for risks and impacts related to biodiversity and natural habitats, to commencing Project activities including a list of excluded activities, and shall take into account and enforced throughout Project cumulative impacts of water abstraction and use on the Sudd. implementation. c. As defined in the ESMF, subproject C-ESMPs shall be developed c. Before commencement of and implemented to manage natural resource and biodiversity impacts subproject activities and and risks. Subproject contractors will prepare respective measures as maintained throughout Project part of the C-ESMP to minimize and/or avoid biodiversity risks and implementation impacts. ESS 7: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED TRADITIONAL LOCAL COMMUNITIES 7.1 The provisions under ESS7 are relevant for all local beneficiaries of SA Prepared, consulted on, and Responsibility: MAFS PCU team the Project. MAFS shall conduct a Social Assessment (SA) to identify disclosed within sixty days of Funding: Project Funds measures to ensure that the Project is consistent with ESS7 Project Effectiveness. requirements, including appropriate assessment and mitigation measures, and to suggest additional activities to improve Project design. MAFS shall ensure that distinct social and cultural groups are Prior to commencing appropriately informed and benefit from the Project in an inclusive Project activities and culturally appropriate manner (i.e. prevention and treatment), in accordance with ESS7 and ESS10. This inclusion shall be ensured through provisions in the SEF (see ESMF annex) and, based on the SEF, subproject Stakeholder Engagement Plans (SEPs). 15 | P a g e South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan ESS 8: CULTURAL HERITAGE 8.1 CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CHANCE FINDS: Develop and As part of the ESMF and on Responsibility: MAFS PCU team implement Cultural Heritage and Chance Find Procedures (CHCFP) timeframe specified in 1.2. as part of the ESMF. Funding: Project Funds Prior to initiation of subproject Subproject Ensure that subproject contractors prepare and implement construction respective measures as part of the C-ESMP. ESS 9: FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES This standard is not relevant, as the project has no financial intermediaries. ESS 10: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE 10.1 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT FRAMEWORK. Prepare, Draft SEF shall be prepared, Responsibility: MAFS PCU team adopt, and implement a Stakeholder Engagement Framework (SEF) consulted on, and disclosed prior to consistent with ESS10, in a manner acceptable to the Association. appraisal and finalized within sixty Funding: Project Funds days of Project Effectiveness. Following the SEF, and prior to subproject activity implementation, subproject specific Stakeholder Engagement Plans (SEPs) shall be SEPs shall be prepared prior to prepared and adopted and shall cover the related ESSs. subproject activity implementation. 10.2 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND INFORMATION Prior to commencement of activities Responsibility: MAFS PCU team DISCLOSURE. The SEF and any subsequent SEPs shall be disclosed with the use of different, culturally appropriate communication approaches to ensure communication with the most vulnerable groups. 10.3 GRIEVANCE MECHANISM FOR THE PROJECT. Develop As part of the ESMF and on Responsibility: MAFS PCU team the framework for the grievance mechanism, as part of the SEF timeframe specified in 1.2. Finalize and implement a detailed GRM based on assessment of GRM shall be operationalized within existing systems 90 days of Project Effectiveness and in any event before activities commence on site. 16 | P a g e South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental & Social Commitment Plan CAPACITY SUPPORT (TRAINING) • Capacity building training is an important element of the Responsibility: MAFS PCU team Project. The trainings for experts, workers and awareness raising for the community shall be continuously targeted. Throughout implementation of Funding: Project Funds These trainings shall be detailed in the ESMF, and as Project activities appropriate in the other E&S instruments, and shall include but not be limited to: Capacity building for the project workers on stakeholder mapping and engagement, specific requirements on the ESMF, ESIA, IPMF, LMP, VLDF SMP, GBV Action Plan and social development plan to be prepared based on the social assessment; • Training for farmers, experts, and officials at different levels on GBV/SEA, occupational health and safety, sustainable agriculture, appropriate mechanical equipment operation and maintenance, etc • Community awareness raising trainings (including clan and religious leaders) on community health and safety, land tenure rights, etc. • Specific aspects of environmental and social assessment, including specifically as established in the ESMF the subproject screening and ESMP preparation. • Train workers on emergency preparedness and response. Subprojects Environmental and Social screening; Occupational and Community Health and Safety including road safety • Training on IPMF, Chance Find Management Procedure and waste disposal etc. • Training farmers on environmentally sustainable agricultural and farming practices. 17 | P a g e