Public Disclosure Authorized Republic of Yemen Ministry of Public Works and Highways ROAD MAINTENANCE FUND - IMPLEMENTATION UNIT. (RMF-IU) ROAD ASSET MANAGEMENT PROJECT-RAMP Public Disclosure Authorized ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIALMANAGMENT PLAN FOR TAIZ Public Disclosure Authorized GOVERNORATE SUB-PROJECT 3 (640 km) Public Disclosure Authorized 0 8/07/2014 Road Maintenance Fund ( RMF) Sub-Project (3) : Taiz Governorate Road Asset Management Project (RAMP) Environmental and social Impact Assessment ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Republic of Yemen Ministry of Public Works and Highways ROAD MAINTENANCE FUND - IMPLEMENTATION UNIT. (RMF-IU) ROAD ASSET MANAGEMENT PROJECT-RAMP ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGMENT PLAN FOR TAIZ GOVERNORATE SUB-PROJECT 3 (640 km) Draft Final Prepared by: RMF-IU July 2014 1 Road Maintenance Fund ( RMF) Sub-Project (3) : Taiz Governorate Road Asset Management Project (RAMP) Environmental and social Impact Assessment ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ T A B L E OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................................................6 1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION ....................................................................................................................................... 19 1.1 LOCATION.............................................................................................................................................................. 19 1.2 PROPOSED WORKS .............................................................................................................................................. 22 1.3 SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROJECT................................................................................................. 23 2 POLICY, LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWROK ................................................................................. 40 2.1 YEMEN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND LEGISLATION ............................................................................... 40 2.2 WORLD BANK ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SAFEGUARD POLICIES ....................................................... 41 3. BASELINE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL DATA .......................................................................................... 42 3.1 PHYSICAL RESOURCES ......................................................................................................................................... 42 3.2 ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES .......................................................................................................................... 50 3.3 SOCIO-EECONOMIC AND CULTURAL ................................................................................................................ 53 4. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS ...................................................................................................... 40 4.1. IMPACT SCOPING ................................................................................................................................................. 56 4.2. SPECIFIC IMPACTS DURING THE BACKLOG ROAD REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE .................................... 59 4.2.1. Impact of construction and domestic waste generation, storage and disposal....................................... 59 4.2.2. Impact of Landslides, Soil Erosion and Visual Intrusion................................................................................ 59 4.2.3. Deterioration of the ambient Air Quality ........................................................................................................ 60 4.2.4. Impact of increased noise levels and vibration .............................................................................................. 60 4.2.5. Disruption of Water Supply................................................................................................................................ 60 4.2.6. Disruption of Runoff Water and Drainage systems ....................................................................................... 61 4.2.7. Deterioration of groundwater quality.............................................................................................................. 61 4.2.8. Damage to Fauna and Flora, deterioration of local ecosystem................................................................... 61 4.2.9. Disruption of traffic ............................................................................................................................................. 62 4.2.10. Health and safety conditions ............................................................................................................................. 62 4.2.11. Social impacts ....................................................................................................................................................... 62 5. ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES ............................................................................................................................ 64 6. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MITIGATION MEASURES (ESMM) .......................................................... 65 6.1 GENERAL................................................................................................................................................................ 65 6.2 MITIGATION TOOLS ............................................................................................................................................. 65 6.3 Mitigation measures for project activities during both the backlog repairs and regular maintenance phases…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………66 6.3.1 Generation, storage and disposal of construction and domestic waste ................................................... 66 6.3.2 Landslides, Soil Erosion and Visual Intrusion .................................................................................................. 66 6.3.3 Deterioration of air quality ................................................................................................................................ 67 6.3.4 Increased level of noise ...................................................................................................................................... 67 6.3.5 Disruption of water supply................................................................................................................................. 67 6.3.6 Disruption of the runoff water and drainage systems .................................................................................. 67 6.3.7 Deter ioration of groundwater quality............................................................................................................. 67 6.3.8 Stress on fauna and flora.................................................................................................................................... 67 6.3.9 Disruption of traffic ............................................................................................................................................. 68 2 Road Maintenance Fund ( RMF) Sub-Project (3) : Taiz Governorate Road Asset Management Project (RAMP) Environmental and social Impact Assessment ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 6.3.10 Deterioration of health and safety conditions ............................................................................................... 68 6.3.11 Social Impacts ....................................................................................................................................................... 68 7 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MONITORING ACTIVITIES ........................................................................ 70 7.1 MONITORING ARRANGEMENTS........................................................................................................................ 70 7.2 REPORTING ........................................................................................................................................................... 70 8 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (ESMP) ................................................................. 71 8.1 GENERAL................................................................................................................................................................ 71 8.2 RESPONSIBILITIES AND PROCEDURES .............................................................................................................. 71 9 SOCIAL CONSULSTATION ................................................................................................................................... 80 9.1 CONSULTATIONS PROGRAM.............................................................................................................................. 80 9.2 CONSULTATIONS WITH MEN