THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) FOR COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROJECTS [CABO VERDE /MINISTRY OF HEALTH] CABOVERDE COVID-19 STRATEGIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PROJECT (SPRP) ENVIRONMENTAL and SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) March 25,2020 1|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) FOR COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROJECTS ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN 1. The Republic of Cabo Verde (the Recipient) will implement the Cabo Verde COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Project (the Project), with the involvement of the following ministries/agencies/units: Ministry of Health and Social Security and Ministry of Finance (MOF). The International Development Association (the Association) has agreed to provide financing for the Project. 2. The Recipient 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 Recipient 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. 4. Implementation of the material measures and actions set out in this ESCP will be monitored and reported to the Association by the Recipient as required by the ESCP and the conditions of the legal agreement, and the Association will monitor and assess progress and completion of the material measures and actions throughout implementation of the Project. 5. As agreed by the Association and the Recipient, 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 Recipient will agree to the changes with the Association 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 Association and the Recipient. The Recipient will promptly disclose the updated ESCP. 6. Where Project changes, unforeseen circumstances, or Project performance result in changes to the risks and impacts during Project implementation, the Recipient shall provide additional funds, if needed, to implement actions and measures to address such risks and impacts. 2|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) FOR COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROJECTS MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY/AUTHORITY MONITORING AND REPORTING A REGULAR REPORTING: Prepare and submit to the Association regular Quarterly throughout the Project Cabo Verde Ministry of Health monitoring reports on the environmental, social, health and safety (ESHS) implementation period. and Social Security (MSSS) and performance of the Project, including but not limited to, stakeholder Ministry of Finance, through the engagement activities and grievances log. Project implementation unit under the MOF - the Unidade de Gestão de Projetos Especiais (UGPE). ESS 1: ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL RISKS AND IMPACTS 1.1 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE: The Ministry of Finance shall establish In order to start Project activities UGPE and maintain a PIU with qualified staff and resources to support :The PIU coordinator and an management of environmental and social risks and impacts of the Environmental and Social specialist Project. This unit will include an environmental and social risk will be assigned to the Project as management specialist. soon as possible and within a maximum of one month following the Effective Date and maintained throughout Project implementation. 3|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) FOR COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROJECTS MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY/AUTHORITY 1.2 ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL ASSESSMENT/MANAGEMENT PLANS AND UGPE INSTRUMENTS/ CONTRACTORS a. Assess the environmental and social risks and impacts of proposed a. Before the commencement of Project activities in accordance with ESS1, and the Environmental and Project activities : The ESMF to be Social Management Framework to be prepared, disclosed and adopted prepared Project as soon as for the Project, including to ensure that individuals or groups who, possible and within a maximum of because of their particular circumstances, may be disadvantaged or one month following the Effective vulnerable, have access to the development benefits resulting from the Date. Assessment to be Project. conducted before the carrying out of the relevant Project activities. b. Prepare, disclose, adopt, and implement Waste Management Plans and any other environmental and social management plans or other b. Before the carrying out of the instruments required for the respective Project activities based on the relevant Project activities, and assessment process, in accordance with the ESSs, the ESMF, the EHSGs, thereafter throughout the and other relevant Good International Industry Practice (GIIP) including carrying out of such activities relevant WHO guidelines on COVID-19 in a manner acceptable to the Association. c. Before launching the procurement process for the c. Incorporate the relevant aspects of this ESCP, including, inter alia, any relevant Project activities and environmental and social management plans or other instruments, thereafter throughout the ESS2 requirements, and any other required ESHS measures, into the carrying out of such activities. ESHS specifications of the procurement documents and contracts with contractors and supervising firms. Thereafter ensure that the d. Throughout Project contractors and supervising firms comply with the ESHS specifications implementation. of their respective contracts. d. Update environmental and social management plans or other instruments based on updated guidance by WHO on COVID19. 4|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) FOR COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROJECTS MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY/AUTHORITY 1.3 EXCLUSIONS: Exclude the following type of activities as ineligible These exclusions shall be applied as UGPE for financing under the Project: part of the assessment process conducted under action 1.2.a. above. • Activities that may cause long term, permanent and/or irreversible (e.g. loss of major natural habitat) adverse impacts • Activities that have high probability of causing serious adverse effects to human health and/or the environment not related to treatment of COVID-19 cases • Activities that may have significant adverse social impacts and may give rise to significant social conflict • Activities that may affect lands or rights of any vulnerable communities, • Activities that may involve permanent resettlement or land acquisition or adverse impacts on cultural heritage • All the other excluded activities set out in the ESMP of the Project. 1.4 Provide medical and emergency supplies based on the urgency of Throughout Project implementation UGPE the need, in line with the latest data related to the prevalence of the cases. ESS 2: LABOR AND WORKING CONDITIONS 2.1 Throughout Project implementation. UGPE LABOR MANAGEMENT: The Project shall be carried out in accordance with the applicable requirements of ESS2, in a manner acceptable to the Association, including through, inter alia, implementing adequate occupational health and safety measures (including emergency preparedness and response measures), setting out grievance arrangements for Project workers, and incorporating labor requirements into the ESHS specifications of the procurement documents and contracts with contractors and supervising firms. 5|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) FOR COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROJECTS MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY/AUTHORITY 2.2 Before engaging Project workers in UGPE The Recipient shall adopt and thereafter implement Labor Project activities, and thereafter Management Procedures (LMP) for the Project, in accordance with implement the LMP throughout the ESS2 Project implementation period. ESS 3: RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND POLLUTION PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT Relevant aspects of this standard shall be considered, as needed, under action 1.2 above, including, inter alia, measures to: manage health care wastes, and other types of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes. ESS 4: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SAFETY Relevant aspects of this standard shall be considered, as needed, under action 1.2 above including, inter alia, measures to: minimize the potential for community exposure to communicable diseases; ensure that individuals or groups who, because of their particular circumstances, may be disadvantaged or vulnerable have access to the development benefits resulting from the Project; manage the risks of the use of security personnel; manage the risks of labor influx; and prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse, and sexual harassment. ESS 5: LAND ACQUISITION, RESTRICTIONS ON LAND USE AND INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT 5.1 Not currently relevant. ESS 6: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF LIVING NATURAL RESOURCES Not currently relevant. ESS 7: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED TRADITIONAL LOCAL COMMUNITIES Not relevant. ESS 8: CULTURAL HERITAGE Not currently relevant. ESS 9: FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES Not relevant. 6|Page THE WORLD BANK - ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP) FOR COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROJECTS MATERIAL MEASURES AND ACTIONS TIMEFRAME RESPONSIBLE ENTITY/AUTHORITY ESS 10: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE 10.1 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PLAN: Prepare, disclose, adopt, and A draft SEP has been prepared and UGPE implement the Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) consistent with disclosed and shall be updated no later ESS10, in a manner acceptable to the Association. than 30 days following the Effective Date. The SEP shall be implemented throughout Project implementation. 10.2 Throughout Project implementation. UGPE GRIEVANCE MECHANISM: Accessible grievance arrangements shall be made publicly available to receive and facilitate resolution of concerns and grievances in relation to the Project, consistent with ESS10, in a manner acceptable to the Association. CAPACITY SUPPORT (TRAINING) Throughout Project implementation. UGPE Training topics for personnel involved in Project implementation will among others include: • COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations • Laboratory biosafety guidance related to the COVID-19 • Specimen collection and shipment • Standard precautions for COVID-19 patients • Risk communication and community engagement • Risk gender-based violence, including the mechanism for submitting GBV/SEA complaints WHO and Africa CDC guidelines on quarantine including case management 7|Page