The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet Restructuring Stage Restructuring Stage | Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: 30-May-2019| Report No: ISDSR27243 Regional Vice President: Hartwig Schafer Country Director: Junaid Kamal Ahmad Senior Global Practice Director: Martien Van Nieuwkoop Practice Manager/Manager: Kathryn Hollifield Task Team Leader: Raj Ganguly The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) Note to Task Teams: The following sections are system generated and can only be edited online in the Portal. . I. BASIC INFORMATION 1. BASIC PROJECT DATA Project ID Project Name P152210 India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project Task Team Leader(s) Country Raj Ganguly India Approval Date Environmental Category 19-Dec-2014 Partial Assessment (B) Managing Unit Is this a Repeater project? SSAA2 PROJECT FINANCING DATA (US$, Millions) SUMMARY -NewFin1 Total Project Cost 107.00 Total Financing 107.00 Financing Gap 0.00 DETAILS -NewFinEnh1 World Bank Group Financing International Development Association (IDA) 75.00 IDA Credit 75.00 Non-World Bank Group Financing Counterpart Funding 32.00 Borrower/Recipient 32.00 2. PROJECT INFORMATION The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) Current Project Development Objective The PDO is to enable selected poor households to enhance agricultural incomes and secure increased access to human development services and social entitlements. The selected poor households will include households that are geographically and socially excluded and have low income levels. The incomes for these households will be enhanced by ensuring increased incomes from agriculture and allied sectors through increased productivity and enhanced market access. The human development services include services related to health, nutrition and sanitation. The social entitlements mainly include social safety nets like the wages from National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, pensions and insurance benefits that are provided by the government. . Note to Task Teams: End of system generated content, document is editable from here. 3. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Note to Task Teams: The following sections are system generated and can only be edited online in the Portal. . 4. PROJECT LOCATION AND SALIENT PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS RELEVANT TO THE SAFEGUARD ANALYSIS (IF KNOWN) Communities from 150 most backward mandals in the Andhra Pradesh covering about 5,000 villages. These mandals were identified as based on the following parameters: i. SC/ST population within a mandal (Data taken from census 2011) ii. Female illiteracy in the mandal (Data taken from census 2011) iii. Mandals having more unirrigated land (Data taken from DES-2011) iv. All the Urban Mandals notified as Class 1 & 2 towns (Municipalities) are excluded from the list While Scheduled Tribes are present in all the districts of Andhra Pradesh, they are concentrated more in the districts of Srikakulam (6%), Vizianagaram (10%), Vishakhapatnam (14%) as well as East Godavari and West Godavari. All these districts are characterized by general backwardness, lack of social infrastructure and services and higher poverty and exclusion. All these districts would be covered under APRIGP. 5. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SAFEGUARDS SPECIALISTS ON THE TEAM Varun Singh, Social Specialist Aditi Jha, Environmental Specialist The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) SAFEGUARD_TABLE 6. SAFEGUARD POLICIES TRIGGERED Safeguard Policies Triggered Explanation While the activities are small scale, with relatively low environmental risks, cumulatively these impacts may have a larger and more serious environmental footprint and would require some environmental due diligence measures to be put in place. The Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) has undertaken an situational assessment of the project to ensure that the planned activities are environmentally sustainable. The study was Environmental Assessment (OP) (BP 4.01) Yes conducted with an objective of understanding environmental implications of project activities, and to define remedial measures to mitigate any negative impacts, in line with the national and state legal and regulatory framework and the World Bank Operational Policies. The project has prepared an Environmental Management Framework (EMF) to delineate the key issues and the measures to be implemented to address them. Performance Standards for Private Sector No Activities OP/BP 4.03 Although no significant or large scale impact is foreseen, some of the value chain and Human Natural Habitats (OP) (BP 4.04) Yes Development activities happen in tribal areas near natural habitats. Although no significant or large scale impact is foreseen, some of the value chain and Human Development activities happen in tribal areas within or near forests. Hence the OP4.36 has been Forests (OP) (BP 4.36) Yes triggered. Sector wide analysis of policies, institutional issues and constraints have been carried out in the EMF. Based on this the EMF includes component specific guidelines and checklist for working near forest areas. APRIGP will not finance pesticide procurement, but there is possibility of pesticide use by farmers as part of productivity enhancement efforts. A separate Pest management Plan has not been Pest Management (OP 4.09) Yes prepared for the project; however due diligence mitigatory measures for the sustainable use and management of pesticides has been included in the project EMF Physical Cultural Resources (OP) (BP 4.11) No The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) APRIGP will be implemented in districts and mandals which have significant concentration of tribals. Project interventions on rural value/retail Indigenous Peoples (OP) (BP 4.10) Yes chains, health and nutrition and access to social entitlements and services would have a strong focus on targeting and including tribal communities. There will be no involuntary land acquisition under RIGPand this will be tracked through the social Involuntary Resettlement (OP) (BP 4.12) No screening checklist included in the social management and tribal development plan Safety of Dams (OP) (BP 4.37) No Projects on International Waterways (OP) No (BP 7.50) Projects in Disputed Areas (OP) (BP 7.60) No KEY_POLICY_TABLE II. KEY SAFEGUARD POLICY ISSUES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT A. SUMMARY OF KEY SAFEGUARD ISSUES 1. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the Restructured project. Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts. The project interventions could have the possible environmental issues • Possible over exploitation of the resources such as ground water for irrigation • Introducing high yielding varieties which need intensive irrigation and fertilization that may have negative impact on soil and water • Setting up mills, processing units and storage structure which need high energy requirement and may release wastes that are harmful to the environment • Use of chemicals, waste disposal and energy use in micro enterprises and possibility of health hazards. • Possibility of contamination of the surrounding environment due to drinking water and sanitation interventions when environment guidelines are not followed APRIGP aims to enable selected poor households to enhance agricultural incomes and secure increased access to human development services and social entitlements, with a specific focus on schooled tribe and scheduled caste households in the most excluded and backward districts/mandals of the state. Project interventions are anticipated to have significant and widespread positive impact on these households by way of increased incomes from agriculture and allied sectors through increased productivity and enhanced market access, enhanced access to health, nutrition and sanitation services, and better access to wage opportunities, pensions, insurance and unique identity cards etc. The main safeguard issue is to ensure effective outreach, coverage and inclusion of tribal habitations and households with respect to project supported interventions, institutions and investments. All activities under the restructured APRIGP are continuation of the originally identified interventions, with the exception of construction and installation of prefabricated Giri Seva Kendra (tribal citizens service centre) that would The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) provide financial and digital inclusion in tribal communities. The small, localized and fully manageable environment and social risks posed by this activity deal with improper disposal of e-waste as well as improper selection of GSK sites. These risks are already and adequately covered under the existing EMF and SMF/TDP, and no new environment and social risks are anticipated. 2. Describe any potential indirect and/or long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area. The project activities have small environmental footprints, if the environmental guidelines and proper due diligence measures are implemented. Therefore there are no long-term impacts anticipated. Longer term impacts are anticipated to be enhanced incomes and improved health, education and nutritional status of scheduled tribes and scheduled caste households, specially women and girls. 3. Describe any potential alternatives (if relevant) considered to help avoid or minimize adverse impacts. The EMF incorporates sound remedial measures which will minimize potential adverse impacts. APRIGP interventions do not anticipate any large scale adverse impacts, if the measures are well implemented. 4. Describe measures taken by the borrower to address safeguard policy issues. Provide an assessment of borrower capacity to plan and implement the measures described. Given the numerous little activities in multiple sites, a framework approach was adopted to identify the potential environmental impacts and remedial measures. The Environment Management Framework (EMF) identifies the possible environmental implications of each interventions proposed under each component and sub component and suggests environment friendly alternatives or mitigation measures for each. It provides a strategy to manage negative environmental impacts of the value chain and human development activities there by sustaining the benefits of these interventions. It also provides the institutional mechanism to operationalise the EMF which contains guidelines, systems and procedures for ensuring environmental sustainability during project implementation. It includes ‘environment guidelines’ or ‘environment friendly alternatives’ for all the components. It also encourages Green Business Opportunities on the critical environmental issues identified in the proposed activities through ‘innovation forums’ ‘solution market places’ and ‘knowledge events’ under partnership component. the EMF also includes a negative list of activities which cannot be funded under the projects – into section 4 second last sentence AP SERP has integrated several measures into the APRIGP project design such as selection of high tribal presence areas as project mandals, rural value chains for tribal areas, linkages with SC/TSP programs of tribal and social welfare departments and ITDAs. AP SERP has leveraged its long standing experience of working with tribal and scheduled caste households and updated its social assessment and prepared a social management and tribal development plan (TDP) that summarises the main issues and strategies for targeting and inclusion of women and men from scheduled caste and scheduled tribe households in project interventions. The social management and tribal development plan identifies specific approaches and strategies on consultation and participation, targeting, inclusion, and gender with respect to APRIGP components on rural value chains, rural retail chains, health and nutrition interventions and access to social entitlements and services. The plan also includes institutional and staffing arrangments, capacity building plan, grievance redressal mechanism and monitoring and evaluation system. Given the numerous little activities in multiple sites, a framework approach was adopted to identify the potential environmental impacts and remedial measures. The Environment Management Framework (EMF) identifies the possible environmental implications of each interventions proposed under each component and sub component and suggests environment friendly alternatives or mitigation measures for each. It provides a strategy to manage negative The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) environmental impacts of the value chain and human development activities there by sustaining the benefits of these interventions. It also provides the institutional mechanism to operationalise the EMF which contains guidelines, systems and procedures for ensuring environmental sustainability during project implementation. It includes ‘environment guidelines’ or ‘environment friendly alternatives’ for all the components. It also encourages Green Business Opportunities on the critical environmental issues identified in the proposed activities through ‘innovation forums’ ‘solution market places’ and ‘knowledge events’ under partnership component. The EMF also includes a negative list of activities which cannot be funded under the projects – into section 4. AP SERP has long experience of implementing strategies and programs for inclusion of tribal and scheduled caste households and promoting sustainable agricultural practices among poor farmers through ‘Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture’ programme, however given the multisectoral nature of APRIGP, it would need capacity building for implementing SMF/TDP and EMF. Additionally the state has been recently bifurcated and there will be need for strengthening capacity of the personnel at SERP and at the various levels of the state machinery.These aspects have been included in the plans for capacity building and technical assistance partnerships in both documents. Existing EMF and SMF/TDP apply to the restructured APRIGP. All provisions of the EMF and SMF/TDP of APRIGP, that was prepared and finalised by AP SERP in 2014 and approved by the Bank, will apply to the restructured project. AP- SERP as well as the Department of Women Development and Child Welfare, Department of Health, Medical and Family Welfare, Department of Tribal Welfare, and Department of Panchayat Raj and Rural Development will carry out the project activities in accordance with the EMF and the SMF/TDP. AP-SERP has updated the ESMF/TDP for the restructured APRIGP, with an addendum in the existing EMF/SMF/TDP. All activities presented in the table below will need to comply with the applicable requirements of the EMF and the SMF/TDP. The restructuring discussions include strengthening of the following implementation measures; i) The Environment Nodal Staff and Social Safeguard Nodal Staff in AP-SERP will continue to be responsible for application and implementation of the EMF and SMF/TDP provisions, across all project components, including the new IAs. They will also prepare and share half yearly reports on EMF and SMF/TDP implementation under the restructured APRIGP. ii) Nodal staff for Environment and Social Safeguard will be designated/engaged in i) Department of Women Development and Child Welfare; ii) Department of Health, Medical and Family Welfare; iii) Department of Tribal Welfare, iv) and Department of Panchayat Raj and Rural Development. These staff will work in coordination with the Environment and Social Safeguard Staff of AP-SERP. 5. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanism for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. The EMF was designed in consultation with various stakeholders – the project teams, concerned departments, community representatives through field consultations. Workshops were held in 2 locations – in Karimnagar on 11th July 2014 and Rangareddy district on 15th July 2014 which were attended by local community, NGOs and representatives from government line departments. In preparing the project and the social and tribal plans, SERP has undertaken a series of field visits, stakeholder consultations and indepth situation assessment studies, with focus on SC and ST households across many districts. These consultations and focus group discussions were held with key stakeholders of the projects: excluded SC/ST The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) houseohlds, tribal farmers and leaders, women members of VOs and MS etc. These consultations were held in SC and ST dominated mandals of Vishakapatnam, Guntur, Srikakulam, Prakasam and Nellore APRIGP has Grievance redressal systems to provide effective services, coupled with counseling and facilitation services. These systems will ensure better implementation of the programs and also have increased outreach to the beneficiaries. The GRM and Feedback systems include One Stop Shops, Call Centres and GRM monitoring cell. AP-SERP will continue to ensure a functioning and accessible grievance redress mechanism (GRM) for stakeholders and Project beneficiaries, throughout the project implementation period. The GRM will also cover the new IAs, with any necessary enhancements, customization and convergence. The amended EMF and SMF/TDP have been disclosed on the website of the IAs, as well disseminated locally. DISCLOSURE_TABLE B. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS ENV_TABLE Environmental Assessment/Audit/Management Plan/Other Date of receipt by the Bank Date of submission for disclosure 01-Aug-2014 18-Sep-2014 For Category ‘A’ projects, date of distributing the Executive Summary of the EA to the Executive Directors “In country� Disclosure Country Date of Disclosure India 09-Sep-2014 Comments The EMF was consulted with a wide range of stakeholders and was translated and disclosed in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Amended EMF and SMP has disclosed on 16 February 2019 INDIG ENOUS_TA BLE Indigenous Peoples Development Plan/Framework Date of receipt by the Bank Date of submission for disclosure 01-Sep-2014 09-Sep-2014 “In country� Disclosure The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) Country Date of Disclosure India 09-Sep-2014 Comments The draft social management and tribal development plan has been disclosed through SERP website (9 SEP) and a stakeholder disclosure workshop (27 Sep 2014). Amended EMF and SMP has disclosed on 16 February 2019. PEST_TABLE Pest Management Plan Was the document disclosed prior to appraisal? Yes Date of receipt by the Bank Date of submission for disclosure 09-Sep-2014 18-Sep-2014 “In country� Disclosure Country Date of Disclosure India 09-Sep-2014 Comments COMPLIANCE_TABLE C. COMPLIANCE MONITORING INDICATORS AT THE CORPORATE LEVEL EA_TABLE OP/BP/GP 4.01 - Environment Assessment Does the project require a stand-alone EA (including EMP) report? Yes If yes, then did the Regional Environment Unit or Practice Manager (PM) review Yes and approve the EA report? Are the cost and the accountabilities for the EMP incorporated in the credit/loan? Yes NH_TABLE OP/BP 4.04 - Natural Habitats PM_TABLE OP 4.09 - Pest Management Does the EA adequately address the pest management issues? Yes The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) Is a separate PMP required? No If yes, has the PMP been reviewed and approved by a safeguards specialist or PM? Are PMP requirements included in project design? If yes, does the project NA team include a Pest Management Specialist? IP_TABLE OP/BP 4.10 - Indigenous Peoples Has a separate Indigenous Peoples Plan/Planning Framework (as appropriate) Yes been prepared in consultation with affected Indigenous Peoples? If yes, then did the Regional unit responsible for safeguards or Practice Manager Yes review the plan? If the whole project is designed to benefit IP, has the design been reviewed and Yes approved by the Regional Social Development Unit or Practice Manager? FO_TABLE OP/BP 4.36 - Forests Has the sector-wide analysis of policy and institutional issues and constraints Yes been carried out? Does the project design include satisfactory measures to overcome these Yes constraints? Does the project finance commercial harvesting, and if so, does it include No provisions for certification system? PDI_TABLE The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information Have relevant safeguard policies documents been sent to the World Bank for Yes disclosure? Have relevant documents been disclosed in-country in a public place in a form and language that are understandable and accessible to project-affected groups Yes and local NGOs? ALL_TABLE All Safeguard Policies Have satisfactory calendar, budget and clear institutional responsibilities been Yes prepared for the implementation of measures related to safeguard policies? The World Bank RESTRUCTURING ISDS India: Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project (P152210) Have costs related to safeguard policy measures been included in the project Yes cost? Does the Monitoring and Evaluation system of the project include the monitoring Yes of safeguard impacts and measures related to safeguard policies? Have satisfactory implementation arrangements been agreed with the borrower Yes and the same been adequately reflected in the project legal documents? III. APPROVALS Raj Ganguly Task Team Leader(s) Samik Sundar Das Approved By Practice Manager/Manager Kathryn Hollifield 08-Jul-2019 . 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