African Development Bank’S Environmental and Social Assessment Procedures (ESAP) Hence Requiring Preparation of an Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP)
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The Agriculture Value Chain and Youth Empowerment Project (AVACYEP) ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (ESMP) SUMMARY FOR AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN AND YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT COUNTRY – MOZAMBIQUE Task Manager: Cesar Tique, Senior Agriculture and Rural Development Task Team Specialist, COMZ/RDGS.2 Team Members: Yappy Silungwe, Senior Irrigation Engineer, RDGS.2 Vinda Kisyombe, Senior Agricultural Economist, RDGS.2 Herminio Malate, Procurement Officer, Consultant, RDGS.3 Maurice Wanyama, Senior Financial Mgt Specialist, RDGS.3 Linet Miriti, Principal Gender Specialist, RDGS.2 Annah Muja, Principal Social Development Officer, RDGS.3 Sikhalazo Dube, Consultant/Livestock Specialist, TAAT-ILRI Olukemi Afun-Ogidan, Principal Agribusiness Officer, AHAI.1 Eulalia Macome, Environmental Specialist/Consultant, COMZ Rebecca Dadzie, Young Professional/Enable Youth, AHAI.1 Eulalia Macome, Environmentalist, Consultant JUNE 2018 The Agriculture Value Chain and Youth Empowerment Project (AVACYEP) Acronyms and Abbreviations AVACYEP Agriculture Value Chain and Youth Empowerment Project CBBP Community-Based Breeding programs DPCI National Directorate of Planning and International Cooperation ( Direccao de Planificacao e Cooperacao Internacional) DPTADER Provincial Directorate of Land, Environment and Rural Development ( Direccao Provincial da Terra, Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Rural) EIA Environmental Impact Assessment ESAP Environmental and Social Assessment Procedures) ESMP Environmental and Social Management Plan HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus INE Bureau of statistics ( Instituto Nacional de Estatisticas) ISS Integrated Safeguards System MASA Agriculture and Food Security Ministry ( Ministério d Agricultura e Segurança Alimentar) MITADER Land, Environmental and Rural Development Ministry ( Ministerio da Terra, Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Rural) OS Operational Safeguards PIU Project Implementation Unit STDs Sexual Transmittable Disease i | P a g e Project Title: The Agriculture Value Chain and Youth Empowerment Project (AVACYEP) SAP Code: P-MZ-AA0-034 Country: Mozambique Division: RDGS 2 1.0. PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES 1.1. Introduction The Agriculture Value Chain and Youth Empowerment Project (AVACYEP) is an integrated project to strengthen the capacity of rural communities to address the inter-linked challenges of food production, rural poverty, food insecurity and access to markets through the provision of horticulture and livestock related infrastructure, and improving food production and marketing activities, as well as capacity building for the concerned communities. The project will be implemented in the four districts of Moamba, Namahacha, Chokwe and Chonguene with estimated total direct beneficiaries of 20,000 and additional 20,000 indirect beneficiaries. This project consists of three approaches for scaling up agriculture water infrastructure development through: (i) increased horticultural crop production through value chain improvement, (ii) contribute to the introduction of best practice agricultural technologies to improve productivity of the red meat (i.e. cattle and goats) value chains, (iii) establishment of incubation centers for youth and women in order to promote entrepreneurship and agribusiness; (iv) through the aforementioned activities enhance the resilience to climate change and climate variability and risk. 1.2. Project Background to the Project The AVACYEP emerged from the need to promote a competitive and inclusive agribusiness in the Maputo and Gaza provinces through increasing agricultural productivity and animal production; providing rural infrastructure to support production (i.e. irrigation, storage facilities); use of improved agricultural inputs (i.e. certified seeds and fertilizers); practical and lower-cost breeding programs, such as Community-Based Breeding programs (CBBPs); vaccinations; agro- processing; access to market; and, promotion of value chain development. The project also emerged to take advantage of the Bank’s and Government investment made at the Massingir Dam to promote irrigation development for the production of food crops and livestock with the aim of improving food security, thereby contributing to the diversification of the agricultural economy in the region, and ensuring wealth creation for the rural population, including women and youth. It is expected that the private sector will fully participate in supporting the smallholders and the emerging farmers throughout-grower or contract farming approaches, supply of agricultural inputs, agro-processing, marketing the agricultural produce, and financing agricultural activities. 1.3. Project Objective and Components 1 | P a g e The Agriculture Value Chain and Youth Empowerment Project (AVACYEP) The overall objective of the proposed Project is to contribute to rural poverty reduction by ensuring food, income, and nutrition security in a sustainable manner. The specific objectives are to (i) increase horticultural crop production through value chain improvement, (ii) contribute to the introduction of best practice technologies to improve productivity in the red meat (cattle and goats) value chain, (iii) establish incubation centers for youth and women in order to promote entrepreneurship and agribusiness; (iv) through the aforementioned activities, enhance resilience to climate change and climate variability and risks. 1.4. Environmental and Social Safeguards Compliance The project activities expected to generate environmental and social impacts are only those associated with the construction works for multipurpose boreholes, installation of irrigation kits, and agro-processing facilities. These activities are likely to engender minimal and site-specific environmental and social impacts that can be minimized by applying appropriate management and mitigation measures. Therefore, based on this scope the project’s environmental and social (E&S) classification was validated as a Category 2 according to the African Development Bank’s Environmental and Social Assessment Procedures (ESAP) hence requiring preparation of an Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP). This classification and attendant requirement is commensurate with the project classification stipulated by the country’s Regulamento Sobre Processo de Avaliação do Impacto Ambiental – Decreto No.54/2015. Therefore the principal objectives of this environmental and social assessment and planning is to ensure that the project integrates mechanisms to reduce environmental impacts along the entire value chain, from production, marketing to product value addition/manufacture, usage and disposal. 1.5. The Purpose and Preparation of the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) The purpose of the ESMP, which will form an integral part of the loan covenant, is to describe the actions that will be taken by the Government of Mozambique (Borrower) to enhance positive impacts and to avoid, minimize, mitigate or compensate / offset negative impacts associated with the AVACYEP. The ESMP will also be used to monitor identified environmental and social impacts of the planned activities. It also stipulates the appropriate monitoring mechanism of the mitigation plan to be actually implemented. Environmentalists from the Supervision Consultant team will monitor the implementation of this plan on behalf of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) and will prepare and submit compliance reports to the Government’s statutory Environment Agency. 2.0. POLICY, LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK 2.1. African Development Bank Policies The design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation modalities for the project have been informed by the Bank’s environmental and social policies and guidelines. Considerations are premised on expectations for assessing and addressing environmental and social impacts in line with the Bank’s Integrated Safeguards System (ISS -2013). The overarching goal of the Banks 2 | P a g e The Agriculture Value Chain and Youth Empowerment Project (AVACYEP) ISS is to preserve and enhance the ecological capital and life-support systems across the continent. Based on the projects planned activities and the fact that the project will not trigger involuntary resettlement, only OS1, OS3, OS4, and OS5 out of the five Operational Safeguards (OS) embedded in the ISS are considered and triggered, and these are; • Operational Safeguard 1: Environmental and social assessment, which is the overarching Operational Safeguard that mainstreams environmental and social considerations in all Bank operations. As a category 2, ESA is required for this project. • Operational Safeguard 3: Biodiversity, renewable resources and ecosystem services which reflects the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity to conserve biological diversity and promote the sustainable management and use of natural resources. • Operational Safeguard 4: Pollution prevention and control, hazardous materials and resource efficiency, which is intended to achieve high quality environmental performance, efficient and sustainable use of natural resources, over the life of a project • Operational Safeguard 5: Labour conditions, health and safety that basically protects workers right. The Bank’s policy provision on Disclosure and Access to Information (DAI) is also triggered. It requires that all the stakeholder including all people residing in the given areas of a project have the right to be informed of the proposed development project in their respective areas. This ESMP summary will be disclosed on the