THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) City of Belo Horizonte/Municipal Secretariat of Works and Infrastructure (SMOBI) Reducing Flood Risks and Improving Living Conditions in the Ribeirão Isidoro Basin (P174619) Draft for APPRAISAL Purposes ENVIRONMENTAL and SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) January 28, 2021 1|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN 1. The City of Belo Horizonte will implement the Reducing Flood Risks and Improving Living Conditions in the Ribeirão Isidoro Basin Project (the Project), with the involvement of the following agency: Municipal Secretariat of Works and Infrastructure (SMOBI). The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (hereinafter the Bank) has agreed to provide financing for the Project. 2. The City of Belo Horizonte will implement material measures and actions so that the Project is implemented in accordance with the Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs). This Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) sets out material measures and actions, any specific documents or plans, as well as the timing for each of these. 3. The City of Belo Horizonte will also comply with the provisions of any other E&S documents required under the ESF and referred to in this ESCP, such as Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMP), Resettlement Action Plans (RAP) and Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP), and the timelines specified in those E&S documents. 4. The City of Belo Horizonte is responsible for compliance with all requirements of the ESCP even when implementation of specific measures and actions is conducted by the Ministry, agency or unit referenced in 1. above. 5. Implementation of the material measures and actions set out in this ESCP will be monitored and reported to the Bank by the City of Belo Horizonte as required by the ESCP and the conditions of the legal agreement, and the Bank will monitor and assess progress and completion of the material measures and actions throughout implementation of the Project. 6. As agreed by the Bank and the City of Belo Horizonte, this ESCP may be revised from time to time during Project implementation, to reflect adaptive management of Project changes and unforeseen circumstances or in response to assessment of Project performance conducted under the ESCP itself. In such circumstances, The City of Belo Horizonte will agree to the changes with the Bank and will update the ESCP to reflect such changes. Agreement on changes to the ESCP will be documented through the exchange of letters signed between the Bank and the City of Belo Horizonte. The City of Belo Horizonte will promptly disclose the updated ESCP. 7. Where Project changes, unforeseen circumstances, or Project performance result in changes to the risks and impacts during Project implementation, the City of Belo Horizonte shall provide additional funds, if needed, to implement actions and measures to address such risks and impacts, which may include involuntary resettlement, community health and safety impacts, among others. 2|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILE ENTITY/AUTHORITY MONITORING AND REPORTING A REGULAR REPORTING Six-monthly throughout Project Project Implementation Unit implementation. Prepare and submit to the Bank regular monitoring reports on the environmental, social, health and safety (ESHS) performance of the Project, including but not limited to the implementation of the ESCP, status of preparation and implementation of E&S documents required under the ESCP, stakeholder engagement activities, functioning of the grievance mechanism(s). B INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS Notify the Bank within 48 hours after Project Implementation Unit learning of the incident or accident. A Promptly notify the Bank of any incident or accident related to the report would be provided within a Project which has, or is likely to have, a significant adverse effect on the timeframe acceptable to the Bank, as environment, the affected communities, the public or workers, requested including without limitation any allegation of sexual exploitation and abuse or sexual harassment. Provide sufficient detail regarding the incident or accident, indicating immediate measures taken or that are planned to be taken to address it, and any information provided by any contractor and supervising entity, as appropriate. Subsequently, as per the Bank’s request, prepare a report on the incident or accident and propose any measures to prevent its recurrence. C CONTRACTORS MONTHLY REPORTS From contractors to PIU: Monthly Contractors throughout Project Implementation In contracts for works using the Bank’s standard procurement documents, contractors are required to provide monthly monitoring From PIU to the Bank: Upon Bank request Project Implementation Unit reports to the Project Implementing Unit. Such monthly reports would be submitted to the Bank by the Borrower upon request. ESS 1: ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RISKS AND IMPACTS 3|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILE ENTITY/AUTHORITY 1.1 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE The organizational structure will be Project Implementation Unit established within 30 days after Project Establish and maintain an organizational structure within the Project effectiveness. The organizational structure, Implementing Unit of Municipal Secretariat of Works and Infrastructure including the listed specialists, will be (SMOBI) qualified staff and resources, acceptable to the Bank, to maintained throughout Project support management of project-related E&S risks, including: one implementation. environmental risks management specialist and one social risks management specialist, one involuntary resettlement specialist and one social communication specialist 1.2 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE Within 60 days after Project effectiveness. Project Implementation Unit The system will be maintained throughout Establish and operationalize a monitoring system to register and report Project implementation on all aspects related with the management of environmental and social risks of the Project 1.3 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL ASSESSMENT Final ESMF: Within 30 days after Project Project Implementation Unit effectiveness. After Bank’s review and Update, adopt and disclose in the Project’s website the Environmental approval, implement the ESMF throughout and Social Management Framework that have been prepared for the Project implementation Project according to the feedback of the public consultations carried out before Appraisal. 1.4 MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS As part of the preparation of technical Project Implementation Unit project designs for activities supported by Screen any proposed activity supported by the Project in accordance the Project. with the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) Once prepared, tools and instruments apply prepared for the Project, and, thereafter, draft, consult upon, adopt, throughout Project implementation. These publicly disclose and implement the Environmental and Social tools will require the Bank’s prior review Management Plan (ESMP), as required, in a manner acceptable to the and approval before the beginning of the Bank and in line with ESS1. construction works. Once approved, the ESMPs are carried out throughout Project implementation. 1.5 MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS As part of the preparation of technical Project Implementation Unit project designs for activities supported by Obtain the required environmental licensing for all Project civil works the Project. according to the Borrower’s legislation. 4|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILE ENTITY/AUTHORITY 1.6 MANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTORS Prior to the preparation of procurement Project Implementation Unit documents. Incorporate the relevant aspects of the ESCP, including the relevant E&S Supervise contractors throughout Project documents and/or plans, and the Labor Management Procedures, into implementation. the ESHS specifications of the procurement documents with contractors and sub-contractors. Thereafter ensure that the contractors and sub- contractors comply with the ESHS specifications of their respective contracts, in a manner acceptable to the Bank. 1.7 MANAGEMENT OF CONTRACTORS Contractors must notify the PIU within 48 Contractors / Project Implementation Unit hours after learning of the incident or Establish a system and maintain a log to register and report of incidents accident throughout Project and accidents related to the Project which has, or is likely to have, a implementation. significant adverse effect on the environment, the affected communities, the public or workers. ESS 2: LABOR AND WORKING CONDITIONS 2.1 LABOR MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES Final LMP: Within 30 days after Project Project Implementation Unit effectiveness. Once reviewed and approved Update, adopt, and implement the Labor Management Procedures by the Bank, the LMP will apply throughout (LMP) that have been developed for the Project according to the Project implementation. feedback from the public consultation process. 2.2 GRIEVANCE MECHANISM FOR PROJECT WORKERS Within 30 days of Project Effectiveness. This Project Implementation Unit GRM will be maintained throughout Project Establish, maintain, and operate a grievance mechanism for Project implementation. workers, as described in the LMP and consistent with ESS2. 2.3 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (OHS) MEASURES These measures will be applied throughout Project Implementation Unit Project implementation. Prepare, adopt, and implement occupational, health and safety (OHS) measures specified in the LMP and ESMP. ESS 3: RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT 3.1 WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN: As part of the preparation and Project Implementation Unit implementation of the required ESMPs Prepare, adopt, and implement a Hazardous and Non-Hazardous-Waste throughout Project implementation. Management Plan. 5|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBILE ENTITY/AUTHORITY 3.2 RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION AND As part of the preparation and Project Implementation Unit MANAGEMENT: implementation of the required ESMPs throughout Project implementation. Develop and adopt resource efficiency and pollution prevention and management measures – including adoption of water and energy efficient technologies in the housing complexes that will be built under Component 2 – that will be covered under the ESMP to be prepared under action 1.4 above. 3.3 RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION AWARENESS: As part of the preparation and Project Implementation Unit implementation of the Social Work Plan Insert contents on the rational use of water and energy in the capacity throughout Project implementation. building activities with residents of the new housing complexes foreseen in the Project’s Social Work Plan 3.4 PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN: As part of the preparation and Project Implementation Unit implementation of the required ESMPs Prepare, adopt, and implement measures of pest management and throughout Project implementation. control of the use of pesticides, as needed. ESS 4: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY 4.1 TRAFFIC AND ROAD SAFETY: As part of the preparation and Project Implementation Unit implementation of the required ESMPs Adopt and implement measures and actions to assess and manage throughout Project implementation. traffic and road safety risks as required in the ESMPs to be developed under action 1.4 above. 6|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) 4.2 COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY: As part of the preparation and Project Implementation Unit implementation of the required ESMPs Prepare, adopt, and implement measures and actions as set out in throughout Project implementation. ESMPs and a code of conduct to manage specific risks and impacts to the community arising from Project activities, including, inter alia, behavior of Project workers in regards with the local population (to avoid situations of sexual exploitation and abuse/sexual harassment (SEA/SH) Risks, conflict, and other risks related with labor influx), biosafety protocols related with the prevention of transmission of diseases (including Covid-19), proliferation of synanthropic fauna, signalization and control of entrance in work sites, response to emergency situations (in articulation with the Municipal Civil Defense), etc. 4.4 SECURITY PERSONNEL: As part of the preparation and Project Implementation Unit implementation of the required ESMPs Adopt and implement measures when hiring Security Personnel that are throughout Project implementation, as consistent with the requirements of ESS4, in a manner acceptable to the needed. Bank ESS 5: LAND ACQUISITION, RESTRICTIONS ON LAND USE AND INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT 5.1 RESETTLEMENT POLICY FRAMEWORK (RPF): Final RPF: Within 30 days of Project Project Implementation Unit Effectiveness. After the Bank’s review and Update, review and disclose in the Project website the draft RPF approval, the RPF will be implemented prepared for the Project according to the feedback received through the throughout Project implementation. consultation process carried out before Appraisal, in line with ESS5. 5.2 RESETTLEMENT PLANS: Final RAPs prepared as part of the Project Implementation Unit preparation of technical project designs for Prepare, consult upon, adopt, publicly disclose, implement, monitor and activities supported by the Project. After the evaluate the implementation of resettlement plans (RAPs) in Bank’s review and approval, All RAPs must accordance with ESS 5 and consistent with the requirements of the be fully implemented and resettlement Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) that has been prepared for the completed during Project implementation, Project, and thereafter adopt and implement the respective RAPs including all Project-Affected People must before carrying out the associated activities, in a manner acceptable to be compensated at full replacement cost, the Bank. per ESS5, before construction works start. 5.3 SOCIAL WORK PLANS: Within the first year of Project Project Implementation Unit implementation. Prepare, implement, monitor and evaluate the implementation of the Social Work Plans in a participatory way. 7|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) 5.4 SOCIAL PARTICIPATION: Within six months after Project Project Implementation Unit effectiveness and throughout Project Establish the Reference Group for monitoring the implementation of implementation. involuntary resettlement and urban development activities in the area of the Izidora occupations (including legitimate representatives of PAPs and other interested parties) as stated in the Project’s RPF. 5.5 GRIEVANCE MECHANISM Within six months after Project Project Implementation Unit effectiveness and throughout Project Establish and operate the Social Field Offices that will be the foremost implementation. channel for redressing complaints related with the Project’s involuntary resettlement within the Project’s Grievance Mechanism ESS 6: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF LIVING NATURAL RESOURCES 6.1 BIODIVERSITY RISKS AND IMPACTS: As part of the preparation and Project Management Unit implementation of ESMPs throughout Prepare, adopt, and implement measures related with the rescue and Project implementation. safe release of fauna specimens found in the work sites, maintenance of natural drainage channels, and water streams, protection of permanent preservation areas in the Izidora Region and acquisition of natural resource commodities only from certified primary suppliers. 6.2 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: As part of the preparation and Project Management Unit implementation of the Social Work Plans Insert contents related with the environmental education in the throughout Project Implementation capacity building activities with residents of the new housing complexes foreseen in the Project’s Social Work Plan as well as in activities carried out in the urban upgrading area. 6.3 SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT: As part of the preparation and Project Management Unit implementation of the ESMPs and Social Adopt measures to foster community engagement in protection and Work Plans throughout Project management of existing and created protected areas implementation. ESS 7: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED TRADITIONAL LOCAL COMMUNITIES Not currently relevant ESS 8: CULTURAL HERITAGE 8.1 CHANCE FINDS: As part of the preparation and Project Management Unit implementation of the ESMPs throughout Prepare, adopt, and implement the chance finds procedures described Project implementation. in the ESMF and ESMPs developed for Project activities 8|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) 8.2 INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE: As part of the preparation and Project Management Unit implementation of the Social Work Plans Identify the intangible cultural heritage during the initial socioeconomic throughout Project Implementation diagnosis of the intervention areas and insert content related to the intangible cultural heritage in the training activities for residents of the new housing complexes in the Izidora Region, foreseen in the Project's Social Work Plan, as well as in the activities carried out in the area of urban requalification. ESS 9: FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES Not currently relevant ESS 10: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE 10.1 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PLAN PREPARATION AND Final SEP: Within 30 days of Project Project Implementation Unit IMPLEMENTATION effectiveness and throughout Project implementation. Update, adopt, disclose in the Project’s website and , thereafter, implement the Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) according to the feedback from the public consultation carried out before Appraisal, in line with ESS10 10.2 PROJECT GRIEVANCE MECHANISM: Within 30 days of Project effectiveness and Project Implementation Unit throughout Project implementation. Prepare, adopt, maintain and operate a grievance mechanism, as described in the SEP. CAPACITY SUPPORT (TRAINING) CS1 DIRECT WORKERS: Within 30 days after the establishment of Project Implementation Unit / World Bank the organizational structure Task Team Provide a training session on the Bank Environmental and Social Framework to direct Project Workers (including the environmental and social risks specialists) hired for the Project CS2 CONTRACTED AND COMMUNITY WORKERS: As part of the recruitment process and Project Implementation Unit / Contractors throughout the implementation of the Provide training for contracted and community workers on Project occupational health and safety including on emergency prevention and preparedness and response arrangements to emergency situations as well as adequate behavior and Code of Conduct as defined in the LMP 9|Page