Language: English Original: English PROJECT: CABINDA PROVINCE AGRICULTURE VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT COUNTRY: ANGOLA ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK SUMMARY July 2017 Team Leader Patrick AGBOMA, Chief Agronomist, AHAI.2 1540 Devinder GOYAL, Chief Regional Financial Management Coordinator, RDGS4 8409 Mark EGHAN, Agricultural Economist, ECMR.1 4362 Laurent BRITO, Procurement Specialist, COAO 8629 Team Olusola IKUFORIJI, Environmental Specialist, AHAI.2 1264 Members Jessica HARRIS, Gender Policy Expert, AHGC1 3881 Appraisal Team Joao Paulo SPENCER, Civil Engineer, AHAI.2 Alayde Serruto DIAZ, Agribusiness Specialist, AHAI.2 Ikechukwu EZIAKOR, Institutions Development/M&E Specialist, AHAI.2 Septime MARTIN, COAO 6901 Managers Joseph COOMPSON, OIC RDGS.2 8451 Chiji OJUKWU, AHAI.0 2042 Directors Tonia KANDIERO, RDGS.0 8401 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK (ESMF) SUMMARY Project Name: CABINDA PROVINCE AGRICULTURE VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Project Number: P-AO-AAZ-001 Country: ANGOLA Department: AHAI Division: AHAI.2 Environmental Category: 2 1. Introduction The Cabinda Province Agriculture Value Chain Development Project (CPAVCDP) four municipalities from the Cabinda Province of Angola, namely: Belize, Buco Zau, Cacongo and Cabind and includes commodity value chain development, and infrastructure development. The project’s investment will include construction and/or rehabilitation works for small-scale irrigation schemes, processing and marketing facilities, community support infrastructure (health centers, primary schools and water and sanitation facilities) and rural feeder roads that are likely to generate minimal and localized environmental and social impacts. The precise location, scale and risks of these interventions will be confirmed during project implementation, hence an Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) is the appropriate safeguard instrument that will provide the framework to manage all potential negative environmental and social risks incurred during implementation of the project. ESMF is a framework for screening, mitigation and monitoring potential impacts during implementation and operation of proposed investments, with an embedded process for triggering subsequent sub-project environment and social assessments. The ultimate aim of the ESMF is to enhance the quality and sustainability of the CPAVCDP. 2. Description of Programme The CPAVCDP is a value chain development of selected commodities that aims to contribute to the increased food security, job and wealth creation of the communities within Cabinda Province, and by extension Angola. The specific objective of the project is to increase farmers’ food security and incomes through increased agricultural output and value addition. The Project will also contribute to enhance income of small and medium enterprises engaged in input supply, production, processing, storage and marketing of selected commodities on a sustainable basis. The proposed CPAVCD Project is composed of three components: (i) Commodity Value Chains Development; (ii) Infrastructure Development; and (iii) Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation. The project focuses on the provision of the enabling environment for agricultural development and value addition of staple crops (cassava, sweet potato, peanut, and beans); cash crops (coffee, cocoa and oil palm); marine and inland fisheries; small ruminants; and horticulture 2 (vegetables and fruits). It will rehabilitate or construct rural and resilient infrastructure, namely feeder roads to link production clusters to markets, agro-processing centers, market centers, community health centers, primary schools, potable water facilities in the communities and improve rural energy access. Component 1: Commodity Value Chains Development Provision of improved production inputs in crops, fisheries and livestock (seeds, fertilizers, fingerlings, small ruminants); training in good agricultural practices; promotion of mechanization along the value chains by equipment and machinery leasing with two tractors/implements each in the four Municipalities; support to training in post-harvest technologies for farmers and value chain actors; training of value chain actors in modern food processing; entrepreneurship and business management training; development of market information system; installation of 14 processing equipment for commodity value addition and marketing; environmental protection management for productivity enhancement, processing, marketing and community infrastructure; provision of two refrigerating units for vegetables in Cabinda Municipality; and establishment of the credit fund. Component 2: Infrastructure Development Extension of electrical power grid (54 kms); rehabilitation of feeder roads (191 kms); rehabilitation of four community markets and storage facilities; installation of 16 water boreholes for potable and sanitation systems; rehabilitation of 1,500 km of irrigation water distribution system; development of 750 ha of irrigated land; construction of nine residences to support extension advisory services; construction of structure to mitigate coastal erosion at Landana; construction of one health center and one primary school in each of the four Municipalities; construction of a fisheries training facility at Tanda-Zinze (Cabinda Municipality); construction of two piers and produce preservation warehouses at Tungu and Chicaca in Cacongo Municipality; reconstruction of the landing pier at Landana in Cabinda Municipality; construction of an abattoir in Cabinda Municipality; construction of two animal quarantine parks in Cabinda Municipality Component 3: Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation Project management activities; day-to-day management, management of studies on key policy issues; credit management; development of a results based framework for M&E; and procurement, disbursement and audit functions. 2.1 Project Location The CPAVCD Project will be implemented in the four municipalities of Cabinda Province namely: Belize, Buco Zau, Cacongo and Cabinda with a combined human population of 688,285. 3 3. Environmental and Social Baseline Information Climate, Air Quality and GHG The average annual temperature in the province is about 24.9° C, being fairly uniform throughout the territory. March (in coastal areas) and April (within the country) are the months where there are higher average temperatures, approximately 27.0° C. In the dry season (Luanda, June to October), the lowest temperatures are recorded in July and August, being of the order of 21.0° c. Precipitation in the province of Cabinda varies sharply from the coast to the interior, with 4 increasing altitude. The average annual precipitation varies between areas with less than 800 mm in the southern region, up more than 1 800 mm in the mountainous region of the interior. Throughout the year include two seasons: the rainy season, which lasts approximately six months in the coastal region (November to April) and seven months inside (October to mid-May) and dry season during the rest of the year. May and October can be considered transitional months. In June, July and August rainfall is very low (less than 1 mm). In the month of may (transition) about 10 to 12 days with precipitation above 10 mm, increasing to 15 days in the municipalities of Buco Zau and Belize. Along the coast of Cabinda Province, the average annual water deficit varies between 500 and 300 mm respectively from West to East. Inside the country, this parameter is less than 300 mm. The agro-climatic zones of Cabinda can be separated in two distinct areas: 1. Coastal hot and dry territories: Elevation below 300 m; megathermal climate; high temperatures and air humidity; lower precipitation and poor distribution of rains; low insolation percentage during the “cacimbo” season and absence of frosts; weakly developed mineral soils resulting mainly from marines and fluvial sediments. 2. Interior, hot and humid territories: Elevation between 300 m to 900 m; megathermal climate; high temperatures and air humidity; high precipitation and good distribution of rains; low insolation percentage during the “cacimbo” season and absence of frosts; long developed mineral soils resulting mainly from sedimentary rocks of the Congo System. Water Resources The three main river basins, Chiloango, Lubinda and Lulondo, present, respectively, the following mean annual runoff values at the river mouth: 659 hm3, 21 hm3 and 0,3 hm3. The mean annual runoff of Lucula River is less than 0.1 hm3. With regard to groundwater resources, information collected by the authors of the Hydrogeological Map of Angola province of Cabinda, referred to the existence of large wells, typically implemented in alluvial rivers, whose productivity can reach 2 to 3 l/s. In general, along the bottom of rivers the groundwater is probably saline. In these cases, groundwater may only supply villages in rural districts, after the necessary water treatment processes. Almost all of the irrigation is performed using surface water. In general, because of the nature of most family farms, the irrigated lands are of small size that benefit small areas of soil located preferentially next to streams (without the existence of a line protection strip of water) and water distribution on the parcel by gravity (through small trapezoidal ditches performed manually, with high water losses). It is estimated that the irrigation efficiency is extremely low and of the order of 50% (approximately 80% in land, 85% in distribution,