Environment and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) for AF-May-2024
The Republic of South Sudan (the Recipient) is implementing the Productive Safety Net for Socioeconomic Opportunities Project, SNSOP, (the Project), (P177663) – and will implement the Additional Financing (P181549), hereinafter referred to as the Project, with the involvement of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) and Ministry of Gender, Child, and Social Welfare (MGCSW), as set out in the Grant Agreement. The International Development Association (the Association) has agreed to provide financing for the AF Project. This Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) supersedes previous versions of the ESCP for the Project and shall apply to the above referred Project in its entirety.
The Recipient shall ensure that the Project is carried out in accordance with the Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs) and this 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 agreements.
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 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.
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