Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan (Emmp)
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ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION AND MONITORING PLAN (EMMP) Project/activity, Organizational/administrative, and Environmental Compliance Data Project/Activity Data Project/Activity Name: Feed the Future Senegal Nafoore Warsaaji Geographic Location(s) (Country/Region): Senegal/West Africa Implementation Start/End Dates: March 11, 2020- March 11, 2023 Contract/Award Number: SBAR-CPFF-72068520C00001 Implementing Partner(s): Connexus Corporation Tracking ID: Tracking ID/link of Related IEE: Tracking ID/link of Other, Related Analyses: Organizational/Administrative Data Implementing Operating Unit(s): (e.g. Mission or Bureau or Office) Lead BEO Bureau: Prepared by: Date Prepared: Submitted by: Date Submitted: Environmental Compliance Review Data Analysis Type: EMMP Additional Analyses/Reporting Required: EMMR Purpose Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans (EMMPs) are required for USAID-funded projects, as specified in ADS 204, when the 22 CFR 216 documentation governing the project (e.g. the Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) specifies mitigation measures are needed. EMMPs are in important tool for translating applicable IEE conditions and mitigation measures into specific, implementable, and verifiable actions. FEED THE FUTURE SENEGAL NAFOORE WARSAAJI EMMP i An EMMP is an action plan that clearly defines: 1. Mitigation measures. Actions that reduce or eliminate potential negative environmental impacts resulting directly or indirectly from a particular project or activity, including environmental limiting factors that constrain development. 2. EMMP monitoring indicators.1 Criteria that demonstrate whether mitigation measures are suitable and implemented effectively. 3. Monitoring/reporting frequency. Timeframes for appropriately monitoring the effectiveness of each specific action. 4. Responsible parties. Appropriate, knowledgeable positions assigned to each specific action. 5. Field Monitoring/Issues. Field monitoring needs to be adequately addressed i.e. monitoring dates, observations, issues identified and resolution. This field is primarily for documentation during implementation. As of 2020, additional measures are added to address the need to practice social distancing, wear face coverings, and limit group sizes to prevent the spread of coronavirus during the global pandemic. These measures apply to activities involving meetings and group training. Generally, EMMPs are developed by the IP (and updated at least annually) in conjunction with the Annual Work Plan. Some IEEs include a general EMMP; in such instances it is incumbent on the IP to tailor the general EMMP once activities are fully defined. Responsibility for ensuring IPs develop appropriate EMMPs and budget for their implementation rest with USAID CORs/AORs. An EMMP is a living document. It should be reviewed against the IEE and updated/tailored as needed over the life of implementation, e.g. when new sites are identified or changes in scope are made through award modifications and IEE Amendments. 1 Note: EMMP monitoring indicators differ from performance indicators, which are the measures that USAID uses to detect progress towards the results included in a Results Framework. FEED THE FUTURE SENEGAL NAFOORE WARSAAJI EMMP ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Project/activity, Organizational/administrative, and Environmental Compliance Data ............................................ i PURPOSE .............................................................................................................................................. I 1.0 PROJECT/ACTIVITY SUMMARY ....................................................................................................... 1 Nafoore Warsaaji Vision and Staffing ........................................................................................................................ 1 2.0 SITE SPECIFIC INFORMATION .......................................................................................................... 3 Activity Description and Locational Information ....................................................................................................... 3 Water for Irrigation and GIRE (integrated water resource management) ................................................................ 5 Summary of Principal Environmental Concerns for Reg. 216 ................................................................................... 7 3.0 COVID-19 AND ITS IMPACT ON THRESHOLD DETERMINATIONS .................................................... 11 Threshold determinations from Senegal IEE documents ........................................................................................ 12 4.0 ANNUAL REPORTING .................................................................................................................... 16 5.0 EMMP TABLE FOR FEED THE FUTURE SENEGAL NAFOORE WARSAAJI ........................................... 17 USAID APPROVAL OF EMMP .............................................................................................................. 25 COPY OF EMMR TABLE FOR FEED THE FUTURE SENEGAL NAFOORE WARSAAJI .................................. 26 APPENDICES TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION AND MONITORING PLAN EMMP ....................... 28 1. Sample Environmental Review Form to use with credit or grant applications to screen partners’ activities .............................................................................................................................................. 29 2. Key features of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) ...................................................................... 34 3. Summary of essential information and allowed/ banned pesticides from the USAID /Senegal Agriculture PERSUAP ........................................................................................................................... 36 4. Pesticide Safer Use Compliance Tracker - Illustration .................................................................... 44 5. Environmental impacts of fertilizer ................................................................................................ 46 6. USAID Water Quality (and quantity) Assurance ............................................................................. 48 7. 2001 Study on Horticultural Production Impacts on Les Niayes (FR) ............................................. 50 FEED THE FUTURE SENEGAL NAFOORE WARSAAJI EMMP i Feed the Future Senegal Nafoore Warsaaji EMMP 1.0 Project/Activity Summary Feed the Future Senegal Nafoore Warsaaji’s purpose is to help smallholder horticulturalists, including those already being supported under existing Feed the Future projects like Kawolor and previous USAID projects like Yaajeendé, Nataal Mbay/ PCE/SAGIC, and Wula Nafaa, to amplify their commercial activities and integrate farmers into existing horticulture value chains. The original proposal was updated in light of the Feed the Future COVID 19 Impact Enterprise Recovery Scope of Work. To address value chain challenges, Nafoore Warsaaji aims to provide technical assistance, training, material, and other agricultural, financial and market services to mitigate short- and long-term COVID-19 crisis impacts on horticulture value chain actors, particularly smallholders, youth and women, in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence (ZOI). This pandemic has revealed the urgent need to address several key issues in the horticulture market value chains. Nafoore Warsaaji aims to: (i) strengthen production planning to better supply local and national markets with locally produced horticultural products on an ongoing basis; (ii) improve post-harvest and logistics supply chains to reduce post-harvest loss and improve off-taking of horticultural produce; (iii) improve the coordination of upgrading actions between actors at different levels in the value chain in order to cooperatively address key bottlenecks and gaps highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic; and, (iv) help promote market incentives, lift barriers and address key regulatory issues to further catalyze the consumption of local horticulture products. Connexus views the expansion of Nafoore Warsaaji as a path to address these VC challenges but also as an opportunity to pave the way for stronger markets systems, and more private sector investment in priority horticulture value chains in Senegal. Many of Nafoore Warsaaji’s participants became engaged in horticulture through USAID and Feed the Future livelihoods, nutrition, water, and resilience programming, and are now poised to focus more of their efforts on commercial horticulture to increase household revenues. Nafoore Warsaaji is designed to engage these participants in increasingly lucrative and structured business deals with private sector partners, including input suppliers, MFIs, banks, insurance companies, off-takers, and end market buyers. In addition, extending the activity ZOI into the Niayes will allow Nafoore Warsaaji to link to existing commercial horticultural VCs and test a wider range of business models and finance products with producers and other institutional actors who have a broad range of professional experience in horticultural production. Nafoore Warsaaji Vision and Staffing Connexus and Nafoore Warsaaji will collaborate with the Kawolor Activity in the Feed the Future ZOI. Lessons learned and experience from activities undertaken in the Niayes Zone will also be shared with Kawolor in order to improve the value chain structuring process in the expanded ZOI. Nafoore Warsaaji will work with Kawolor on establishing horticulture