SFG4122 GEF Trust Fund Financed China Project for the Establishment of an Institutional System for Green and Efficient Freight Transport Development Environmental and Social Management Framework December, 2017 The Environmental and Social Management Framework of the World Bank Financed China Project for the Establishment of an Institutional System for Green and Efficient Freight Transport Development Table of Contents 1. Project Background 2 2 Project Components 4. 3. Purposes and Bases for Preparation of the Framework 5 4. Identification and Screening of the Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts 7 5. Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts 9 6. Management Procedures and Organizations 14 7. Public Consultation and Grievance Redress 16 8. Capacity Building 16 I 1. Project Background Climate change is the most serious and urgent challenge facing humanity today. Since the beginning of the 21st century, in order to build a community of shared future for mankind, the Chinese government has made and is making great efforts to tackle climate change and promote green and low-carbon development. It pushes ahead with regional and international cooperation on reaching an agreement at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris (the Paris Agreement) and on tackling climate change. Furthermore, guided by its policies, the Chinese government has created a favorable environment for promoting green and low-carbon development and ecological conservation. It has not only improved the top-level planning and institutional system for green development, but it has also included green development in new development strategies. In this context, the Chinese government has developed and issued a number of key policies, such as Work Plan for Controlling Greenhouse Gas Emissions During the 12th Five- Year Plan Period, National Plan on Climate Change (2014-2020), and National Strategy for Climate Adaption. With regard to economic and social activities, the Chinese government has adopted strong policies and measures to accelerate growth model transformation and economic structure adjustment, so as to effectively control greenhouse gas emissions. According to a report of the National Development and Reform Commission, China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit of GDP dropped by 20% during the 12th Five-Year Plan period, which exceeds the target of a 17% decrease. It is estimated that CO2 emissions per unit of GDP will drop by 40% to 45% from 2005 to 2020. The transport sector is one of the key sectors on which the Chinese government focuses when tackling climate change and striving to achieve green development. Transport accounts for 8.2% of total energy consumption, 35.3% of total oil consumption, and 12% to 15% of CO2 emissions in China. Freight transport is a major contributor of greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions in the transport sector. In recent years, guided by the central government of China, the Ministry of Transport has developed and issued a number of documents and taken a number of measures to facilitate energy conservation and emissions reduction with a view to achieving green transport. These measures include conducting statistical monitoring of energy consumption among key enterprises, launching pilot projects for natural gas powered vehicles and ships, implementing fuel consumption limits, disclosing the vehicle models that meet the fuel consumption standards, and recommending vehicle models for drop-and-pull transport. Compared with 2005, the CO2 emissions per revenue tonne-kilometers (RTK) by commercial vehicles and commercial vessels dropped by 15.9% and 20% respectively in 2015; the oil consumption and CO2 emissions per tonne-kilometer by civil aviation transport dropped 13.5% and 13.5% respectively. 2 Despite the efforts of the government, China's freight transport system is still plagued by the following problems: unreasonable transport structure, energy overconsumption, and the large quantity of pollutant emissions. With regard to major freight corridors, most of the freight in China is moved by road transport, which consumes more energy and emits more pollutants than other modes of transportation. The nitrogen oxides and particles emitted by freight vehicles account for 68% and 79% respectively of the total nitrogen oxides and particles emitted by all vehicles. The nitrogen oxides and particles emitted by freight vehicles exceed those emitted by trains and ships (railway and waterway are considered relatively green transportation modes). In 2015, road freight volume accounted for 76% of the total freight volume, while railway freight volume and waterway freight volume accounted for 7.6% and 13.8% respectively of the total freight volume. More freight is moved by road transport than by railway and waterway transport in China, which is different from that in developed countries. With regard to distribution, cities in China are facing ever increasingly serious problems of traffic congestion and air pollution. Emissions produced by urban freight transport are becoming one of the major causes of urban air pollution. According to the Green Book of Climate Chang: Annual Report on Actions to Address Climate Change (2013), CO2 emissions in cities account for 90% of total CO2 emissions nationwide; SO2 emissions in cities account for 98% of total SO2 emissions nationwide; the energy consumed by urban freight transport accounts for 30% to 40% of the total energy consumed by urban transport. In China, freight vehicles account for only about 10% of the total motor vehicles, but the NOx and PM emissions produced by freight vehicles account for 68% and 79% respectively of the NOx and PM emissions produced by all motor vehicles. This has become a key area on which smog control in major Chinese cities focus in recent years. The energy consumption statistics and monitoring system of the transport sector remain to be improved. In particular, the energy consumption and carbon emissions monitoring capacity of the freight transport sector should be improved. There is a lack of basis for transport management departments to assess the transport sector's ability to conserve energy and reduce emissions. Moreover, the transport management departments have not provided sufficient support for improving the management and decision making of the transport sector. In order to overcome the aforesaid problems and explore ways to develop freight transport in an intensive, efficient and green manner, China's Ministry of Transport proposed to the trust fund of Global Environment Facility (GEF) the project for the “Establishment of an Institutional System for Green and Efficient Freight Transport Development� (“the project� for short). The objective of the project is to research and explore multimodal transport, urban green freight transport, and freight transport environment management systems through technical assistance research projects and pilot investment projects. Moreover, top-level planning for seamless intermodal transport, efficient and green urban freight transport, and freight transport environment management will be carried out. In addition, pilot projects will be launched in highly interrelated areas in 3 Guangdong, Liaoning, Shandong, Fujian and Hubei provinces, in order to accumulate relevant experience. All these measures are designed to solve salient problems such as poor transport structure, the high cost of integrated logistics, and large energy consumption, so as to drive forward the establishment of an efficient and green freight transport system, facilitate the structural emission reduction of the freight transport sector, and reduce energy consumption and emissions while increasing freight transport and its efficiency. This project supports China's 2030 national strategic goals to lower carbon emissions and improve environmental quality. 2. Project Contents In this project, top-level planning for seamless intermodal transport, efficient and green urban freight transport, and freight transport environment management will be carried out. In addition, pilot projects will be launched in highly interrelated areas, in order to accumulate relevant experience. All these measures are designed to solve salient problems such as poor transport structure, the high cost of integrated logistics, and large energy consumption, so as to drive forward the establishment of an efficient and green freight transport system, facilitate the structural emission reduction of the freight transport sector, and reduce energy consumption and emissions while increasing freight transport and its efficiency. This project supports China's 2030 national strategic goals to lower carbon emissions and improve environmental quality. The project includes 11 components, of which 6 are technical assistance (TA) projects at national level and 5 pilot TA activities at provincial and local level. These components involve major freight corridors, urban freight transport, and freight transport environment management. See table I for the general information about the project. Table I: Overview of the proposed project components Undertaking No. Project contents Aid types units Study on medium-long term plan for promoting multimodal Technical Ministry of 1 transport in China assistance Transport Study on regulations and standardization of multimodal Technical Ministry of 2 transport in China assistance Transport Action Plan for Efficient and Green Freight Corridor Technical Ministry of 3 Improvement in China assistance Transport High efficiency freight transport organization and Technical Ministry of 4 management plan for freight corridors in China assistance Transport Guideline of Intermodal Freight for Yangtze River Economic Technical Ministry of 5 Belt (YREB) Considering Ecological Civilization assistance Transport Guideline for Green and Efficient Urban Freight Transport Technical Ministry of 6 and Distribution assistance Transport Shandong Yantai Bohai Bay Road-Waterway Intermodal Transport Technical 7 Provincial Demonstration Project assistance Department of 4 Transport Shandong Weifang Green Urban Freight Distribution Demonstration Technical Provincial 8 Project assistance Department of Transport Fujian Provincial Xiamen Sea-Rail Intermodal Transport Demonstration Technical 9 Department of Project assistance Transport Guangdong Technical Provincial 10 Guangdong Urban-Rural Integrated Distribution Pilot assistance Department of Transport Hubei Provincial Improvement of the Integrated Development of Han-River Technical 11 Department of Inland Waterway and Green Navigation Channel Pilot assistance Transport 3. Purposes and Bases for Preparation of the Framework The main purpose of preparing this Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) is to ensure that the negative impact of the project implementation to the environment and society is minimized. To this end, effective measures will be developed and delivered in accordance with the World Bank's environmental and social safeguard policies and China's relevant policies and regulations. The ESMF provides the procedures, standards and requirements for the implementation of the project activities in terms of environmental and social safeguards consideration. Being a part of the legal agreement for the project, the ESMF covers the objectives of the project, procedures, institutional arrangement, and implementation plans, along with the identification and management of the potential environmental and social impacts of the project. In addition, the ESMF also involves public engagement, grievance mechanism, and the recommended screening tools for all project components. The ESMF is prepared primarily based on the Proposal for the Project for the Establishment of an Institutional System for Green and Efficient Freight Transport Development, feasibility study reports on the project components, China's relevant laws and regulations, and the World Bank's safeguard policies. At the preparation stage, the PMO conducted a screening of the Bank’s Safeguard Policies that may apply to this project. The finding is that, the project activities are all technical assistance activities (studies, information system development, workshops etc.) that don’t involve infrastructure or civil works，no land acquisition and resettlement impacts. The main environmental and social concerns are the potential downstream implications of the studies and action plan prepared under the project, which warrant thorough consideration during the development of such reports. Given a national coverage project, the Bank policy OP4.10 may be triggered. In addition, some activities, such as action plan for corridor improvement, may pose potential downstream 5 environmental and social impacts, in case specific infrastructure project is recommended, physical civil works may be involved�, therefore the Bank policy OP4.12 ,OP4.01 and OP4.04 are triggered. A general assessment of the potential environmental and social impacts is concluded as follows: 1) None of the six national-level technical assistance research components of this project or the technical assistance programs of the local demonstration components of this project involves the construction items that will impact the environment and society. Therefore, these projects will not directly impact the environment and society. 2) The five local demonstration components of this project focus on data mining analysis for the platforms of green freight distribution and intermodal transport, as well as the establishment of a management system and technical standards for the platforms. None of these components involve, or there are sufficient reasons to believe that currently none of these components involve civil construction items. Therefore, these components will have no direct impact the environment or society. 3) Both national and local level studies and plan development activities may have indirect downstream environmental and social implications if the results or recommendations of such studies are put into implementation in the future. These downstream concerns will be incorporated into the study and plan development. 4) Other activities include IT system development, data analysis, capacity training, publicity and promotion workshops. These activities have no environmental and social impacts envisaged. 5) The component in Hubei province, i.e. study of policies and guidelines for better managing the inland waterway operation in Han River in Hubei Province, is supporting the an ongoing World Bank lending project, namely Yakou inland waterway project, in the province. Environmental and social safeguard issues related to the Yakou project have been addressed in accordance with the Bank safeguard policies under that project. Based on the above reasons, the ESMF is prepared during the project preparation. It outlines the measures to mitigate, reduce, and mitigate the social risks and impacts of the project. Once the social risks and impacts of the project are identified, measures to tackle the risks and impacts and relevant organizational arrangements should be put in place in accordance with the ESMF and the report on the work thereof should be submitted to the World Bank. 4. Identification and Screening of the Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts During the project preparation, the Project Management Office (PMO) has conducted the preliminary identification and screening of the potential environmental and social risks and impacts of the project, based on the construction items of the project components. See table II for the details. 6 Table II: Screening of environmental and social impacts Undertaking Nature of No. Project contents Environmental impacts Social impacts units activities No physical civil works Study on medium- Positive environmental involved; long term plan for benefits; no physical civil Ministry of General Potential downstream social 1 promoting works involved; potential Transport study impacts, such as impacts on multimodal downstream environmental small freight logistics transport in China implications companies/individuals. No physical civil works Study on Positive environmental involved; regulations and benefits; no physical civil Ministry of General Potential downstream social 2 standardization of works involved; potential Transport study impacts, such as impacts on multimodal downstream environmental small freight logistics transport in China implications companies/individuals. 3 Ministry of Action Plan for Action plan Positive environmental Potential downstream social Transport Efficient and development benefits; no physical civil impacts, in case specific Green Freight works involved; potential infrastructure project is Corridor downstream environmental recommended, physical civil Improvement in implications. The plan may works may be involved. China include recommendations for specific infrastructure projects 4 Ministry of High efficiency General Positive environmental No physical civil works Transport freight transport study benefits; no physical civil involved; organization and works involved; potential Potential downstream social management plan downstream environmental impacts, in particular, the for freight implications impacts on small freight corridors in China logistics companies/vulnerable groups. 5 Ministry of Guideline of Guidelines Positive environmental No physical civil works Transport Intermodal Freight development benefits; no physical civil involved; for Yangtze River works involved; potential Potential downstream social Economic Belt downstream environmental impacts, in particular, the (YREB) implications impacts on small freight Considering logistics Ecological companies/vulnerable groups. Civilization 6 Ministry of Guideline for Guidelines Positive environmental No physical civil works Transport Green and development benefits; no physical civil involved; Efficient Urban works involved; potential Potential downstream social Freight Transport downstream environmental impacts, in particular, the and Distribution implications impacts on small freight logistics companies/vulnerable groups. 7 Shandong Big Data Analysis Big data No physical civil works No physical civil works Provincial for Multimodal analysis involved; no environmental involved; Department Transport implications Collect sex-disaggregated , of Transport vulnerable groups/ labors baseline data on the intended beneficiaries of the project; Dissemination Workshops No physical civil works Vulnerable groups / small workshops involved; no environmental companies, women labors implications involvement. 8 Shandong Green Urban/Rural Data No physical civil works No physical civil works 7 Provincial Freight collection; involved; no environmental involved; Department Distribution Modal Data implications Collect sex-disaggregated , of Transport Study analysis; vulnerable groups/ labors Training and baseline data on the intended workshops beneficiaries of the project; 9 Fujian E-commerce Software No physical civil works No physical civil works Provincial Platform development involved; no environmental involved; Department Development and IT implications Platform may consider public of Transport hardware engagement and Grievance procurement Redress Mechanism (GRM) and installation Study on the General Positive environmental No physical civil works Optimization of study benefits; no physical civil involved; Freight works involved; potential Potential downstream social Distribution downstream environmental implications Organization at implications Xiamen Port 10 Guangdong Guang-qing General Positive environmental No physical civil works Provincial Urban-Rural study benefits; no physical civil involved; Department Integrated works involved; potential Potential downstream social of Transport Distribution Pilot, downstream environmental implications including implications development of distribution organization plan; development of the common software module; and monitoring and evaluation. Capacity building Training and No physical civil works Vulnerable groups, small workshops involved; no environmental freight companies, and female implications employment involved 11 Hubei Study on the General Positive environmental No physical civil works Provincial strategic plan for study benefits; no physical civil involved; Department improving the works involved; potential Potential downstream social of Transport integrated downstream environmental implications development of implications Han-River inland waterway Green waterway Equipment Positive environmental No physical civil works development; replacement implications; no physical involved; conventional civil works involved. Potential downstream social navigation lights implications replaced with solar-powered integrated navigation lights 8 5. Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts Based on the screening and analysis of the potential environmental and social risks and impacts of the project components, the PMO has proposed Environmental and Social Management Framework. Based on the contents of the project components, different measures will be taken during the project preparation and implementation to manage environmental and social risks and impacts. See table III for the details. Table III: Environmental and social impact management plan Environmental Environmental Social management Responsible No. Project contents management Social impacts Research results impacts measures organizations measures In the TOR that In the TOR that proposes the research proposes the plan, the PMO clearly research plan, the requires that in the PMO clearly research report there requires that in should be a Positive the research section/sections Study on environmental report there No physical civil works analyzing the medium-long benefits; no should be a involved; potential downstream term plan for physical civil section/sections Potential downstream The corresponding implications of 1 promoting works involved; analyzing the social impacts, such as Research unit section(s) of the intermodal transport multimodal potential potential impacts on small research report (especially the transport in downstream downstream freight logistics potential impacts of China environmental implications of companies/individuals. intermodal transport implications intermodal to small freight transport and companies and providing the individuals) and measures to providing the eliminate these measures to eliminate impacts. these impacts. In the TOR that In the TOR that proposes the research proposes the plan, the PMO clearly research plan, the requires that in the PMO clearly research report there requires that in should be a the research section/sections Positive report there analyzing the environmental should be a No physical civil works Study on potential downstream benefits; no section/sections involved; regulations and implications of physical civil analyzing the Potential downstream The corresponding standardization intermodal transport 2 works involved; potential social impacts, such as Research unit section(s) of the of multimodal standards and rules potential downstream impacts on small research report transport in (especially the downstream implications of freight logistics China potential impacts of environmental intermodal companies/individuals. intermodal transport implications transport standards and rules to standards and small freight rules and companies and providing the individuals) and measures to providing the eliminate these measures to eliminate impacts. these impacts. 9 In the TOR that proposes the In the TOR that research plan, the proposes the research PMO clearly plan, the PMO clearly requires that in requires that in the the research research report there report there should be a The corresponding should be a section/sections Research unit section(s) of the section/sections analyzing the research report No physical civil analyzing the potential impacts of works directly potential impacts the action plan and involved; of the action plan providing the research results and providing the Potential downstream Action Plan for measures to eliminate may cause other measures to social impacts, in case Efficient and these impacts. interested parties eliminate these specific infrastructure Green Freight 3 to carry out impacts. project is Corridor infrastructure If the research recommended, physical Improvement in construction, report provides civil works may be If the research report China which may have the detailed involved. provides the detailed downstream infrastructure infrastructure environmental construction construction project implications. project proposals, TORs for The project proposals, a EIA Resettlement Action component TOR should be Plan (RAP) and Independent report management prepared for the Social Assessment office downstream (SA) should be project prepared for the preparation downstream project based on the preparation based on impacts the impacts identified. identified. In the TOR that In the TOR that proposes the proposes the research research plan, the plan, the PMO clearly PMO clearly requires that in the Positive No physical civil works requires that in research report there High efficiency environmental involved. the research should be a freight transport benefits; no Potential downstream report there section/sections organization and physical civil social impacts, in The corresponding should be a analyzing the 4 management works involved; particular, the impacts Research unit section(s) of the section/sections potential impacts of plan for freight potential on small freight research report analyzing the the plan, assessing the corridors in downstream logistics potential impacts impacts of the plan to China environmental companies/vulnerable of the plan and small companies and implications groups. providing the vulnerable groups, measures to and providing the eliminate these measures to eliminate impacts. these impacts. 10 In the TOR that In the TOR that proposes the research proposes the plan, the PMO clearly research plan, the requires that in the PMO clearly research report there requires that in should be a the research section/sections report there analyzing the Guideline of Positive No physical civil works should be a potential downstream Intermodal environmental involved. section/sections impacts of intermodal Freight for benefits; no Potential downstream analyzing the transport along the Yangtze River physical civil social impacts, in The corresponding potential Yangtze River 5 Economic Belt works involved; particular, the impacts Research unit section(s) of the downstream Economic Belt, (YREB) potential on small freight research report impacts of assessing the impacts Considering downstream logistics intermodal of intermodal Ecological environmental companies/vulnerable transport along transport along the Civilization implications groups. the Yangtze Yangtze River River Economic Economic Belt to Belt and small freight providing the companies and measures to vulnerable groups, eliminate these and providing the impacts. measures to eliminate these impacts. In the TOR that In the TOR that proposes the research proposes the plan, the PMO clearly research plan, the requires that in the PMO clearly research report there requires that in should be a Positive the research No physical civil works section/sections environmental report there involved. analyzing the Guideline for benefits; no should be a Potential downstream potential downstream Green and physical civil section/sections social impacts, in The corresponding impacts of green 6 Efficient Urban works involved; analyzing the particular, the impacts Research unit section(s) of the freight transport and Freight Transport potential potential on small freight research report distribution, assessing and Distribution downstream downstream logistics the impacts of green environmental impacts of green companies/vulnerable freight transport and implications freight transport groups. distribution to small and distribution freight companies and and providing the vulnerable groups, measures to and providing the eliminate these measures to eliminate impacts. these impacts. When commissioning the data analysis task to a researcher, the project component management office No physical civil works requires that the involved. researcher should Collect sex- Big Data No physical civil No analyze the impacts of disaggregated , Analysis for works involved; environmental multimodal transport Implementation Social impact analysis 7 vulnerable groups/ Multimodal no environmental risks or impacts to laborers, vulnerable unit report labors baseline data on Transport implications identified groups, and gender the intended distribution based on beneficiaries of the the basic information project; about the intended beneficiaries of the project, and provide advice on mitigating the potential impacts. 11 The affected vulnerable groups, No physical civil No Vulnerable groups / small companies, and The project Dissemination works involved; environmental small freight female workers will component workshops no environmental risks or impacts companies, women be included in the management implications identified labors involvement. target group(s) for office dissemination and training The impacts of multimodal distribution to No physical civil works laborers, vulnerable involved. groups, and gender Green Collect sex- No physical civil No distribution should be The project Urban/Rural disaggregated , works involved; environmental analyzed based on the component Social impact analysis 8 Freight vulnerable groups/ no environmental risks or impacts basic information management report Distribution labors baseline data on implications identified about the intended office Modal Study the intended beneficiaries of the beneficiaries of the project, and advice on project; mitigating the potential impacts should be provided. Public consultation and grievance redress mechanisms will be No physical civil works established in the The e-commerce No physical civil No involved. The project E-commerce platform platform into which works involved; environmental Platform may consider component Platform development; public no environmental risks or impacts public engagement and management Development Public consultation consultation/opinions implications identified Grievance Redress office results will be are integrated Mechanism (GRM) incorporated into the platform development. In the TOR that proposes the research plan, the In the TOR that PMO clearly proposes the research requires that in plan, the PMO clearly 9 the research requires that in the report there Positive research report there should be a environmental should be a Study on the section/sections benefits; no section/sections Optimization of analyzing the No physical civil works physical civil analyzing the The corresponding Freight potential involved; works involved; potential downstream Research unit section(s) of the Distribution downstream Potential downstream potential impacts of the research report Organization at impacts of the social implications downstream optimization of Xiamen Port optimization of environmental freight distribution freight implications organization at distribution Xiamen Port and organization at providing the Xiamen Port and measures to eliminate providing the these impacts. measures to eliminate these impacts. 12 In the TOR that proposes the research plan, the Guang-qing In the TOR that PMO clearly Urban-Rural proposes the research requires that in Integrated plan, the PMO clearly Positive the research Distribution requires that in the environmental report there Pilot, including research report there benefits; no should be a development of No physical civil works should be a physical civil section/sections The corresponding distribution involved; section/sections works involved; analyzing the Research unit section(s) of the organization Potential downstream analyzing the potential potential research report plan; social implications potential downstream downstream downstream development of impacts of the environmental impacts of the 10 the common integrated distribution implications integrated software module; and providing the distribution and and monitoring measures to eliminate providing the and evaluation. these impacts. measures to eliminate these impacts. The affected vulnerable groups, No physical civil No Vulnerable groups, The project small companies, and Capacity works involved; environmental small freight component female workers will building no environmental risks or impacts companies, and female management be included in the implications identified employment involved office target group(s) for training In the TOR that proposes the research plan, the In the TOR that project proposes the research component plan, the project management component office clearly Positive management office requires that Study on the environmental clearly requires that researchers strategic plan for benefits; no researchers should should analyze No physical civil works improving the physical civil analyze the potential The corresponding the potential involved; integrated works involved; downstream impacts Research unit section(s) of the downstream Potential downstream development of potential of the integrated research report impacts of the social implications Han-River inland downstream development of Han- integrated waterway environmental River inland 11 development of implications waterway and provide Han-River inland the measures to waterway and eliminate these provide the impacts in the measures to research report. eliminate these impacts in the research report. Green waterway development; Positive No conventional environmental No physical civil works environmental No social risks or navigation lights implications; no involved; risks or impacts impacts identified replaced with substantial civil identified new solar works involved navigation lights 6. Management Procedure and Organizations The PMO will identify and manage environmental and social risks and impacts based on the project's own environmental and social risks and impacts as well as the World Bank's project preparation and management 13 procedures. The basic management procedure is: 1. Environmentalist and sociologists will be appointed to the project management team. The PMO will appoint at least one environmentalist and one sociologist to the project management team. The environmentalists and sociologists to be appointed must have at least 10 years of relevant work experience. In particular, they should be familiar with the World Bank's environmental and social safeguard policies and have led the environmental and social risk management work for similar projects. 2. According to the World Bank's safeguard policies and the opinions of the relevant expert panel of the World Bank, the PMO is responsible for preparing a Terms of Reference (TOR) for the national-level research projects and local-level components of the project. The TOR will list the requirements on the identification of the potential environmental and social risks and impacts during the study and implementation of the project components, the risk management measures, the risk management procedure, and public consultation. 3. In accordance with the TORs, , special organizations or personnel will be arranged by the project component management offices to identify and manage the environmental and social risks and impacts of the project and its components during the study and implementation of the project and its components. The research results of the project will include the environmental and social risks and impacts management contents. 4. During the implementation of the project, the World Bank will inspect and supervise the environmental and social risks and impacts of all components of the project. The environmental and social risk management organizations or personnel of the components are responsible for reporting the relevant work and research results to the World Bank and improving the relevant work in accordance with the World Bank's requirements. 5. At the end of the project, the PMO will evaluate and inspect the environmental and social risk management for different components based on their research results.. Thus, the organizations involved in the environmental and social risk management for the project are as follows: (1) Project Management Office. Its primary responsibilities include defining the components of the project; recruiting environmentalists and sociologists to form an environmental and social impact management team; proposing TORs for the management of the environmental and social impacts of the project components; organizing and supervising the implementation of environmental and social risk management for the components; and inspecting and evaluating the implementation of environmental and social risk management. (2) Project Component Management Offices. They are responsible for establishing special organizations or arranging special personnel to identify and manage the environmental and social risks and impacts involved in the project. If they commission a third party to carry out the research and development work, they should truthfully convey the tasks and requirements of the TORs proposed by the PMO to the third party and supervise the research and development work carried out by the third party. Every component management office is responsible for inspecting and evaluating the management of the social and environmental risks and impacts 14 of the component concerned. (3)Project Implementation Units (PIUs). They are responsible for including the identification and management of environmental and social risks and impacts in the relevant research and developing feasible measures and plans to eliminate environmental and social impacts based on their respective TORs and the characteristics of their respective components. 15 7. Information Disclosure, Public Consultation and Grievance Redress During preparation if the ESMF, information disclosure and public consultation was carried out through meetings with agencies and other stakeholders at central and local levels. Opinions are incorporated into the project design and the ESMF. The full ESMF was disclosed on the following dates and locations: • Central level: February 22, 2018: http://www.transformcn.com/Topics/2018-02/22/content_139827.htm • Local level: February 27, 2018 Guangdong: http://219.135.151.98:8099/logisticsWeb/wlzx/14157.jhtml Hubei: http://www.hjyksn.cn/wz/web/xxgk_show.jsp?agent=10BZbFJXtQX5V2NICAGS1f/HpBJ6X/xF26eU/NEUVG no=&view_lbunid=750513123B3513545AAC0A8464591D90&unid=7602010B373734EC2B2C0A846413D390 Fujian: http://www.xmcp.gov.cn/tzxx/hyxw/201802/t20180227_1851194.htm Yantai: http://jtj.yantai.gov.cn/art/2018/2/27/art_310_885197.html Weifang: http://www.wfjt.gov.cn/gzdt1/4024.jhtml During the research and implementation of the project components, public consultation should be carried out in order to establish an effective grievance redress mechanism. Public consultation and the establishment of a grievance redress mechanism shall be explicitly listed in the TOR prepared by the PMO, which will underpin the research and implementation of the project and its components. In the research and implementation of the project components, information about the grievances and complaints of all stakeholders will be collected; and the relevant processes and results will be recorded in detail. Public opinions and advice should be taken into consideration when the relevant research is conducted, so that the research results can reflect the results of public consultation. Public consultation and the establishment and operation of the grievance redress mechanism will serve as one of the indicators for evaluating the project outcomes. 8. Capacity Building Capacity building is crucial to the successful implementation of the aforesaid activities. With regard to the 16 current institutional arrangements, the PMO under the Ministry of Transport and the project component management offices should strengthen their capacity building, so as to better fulfill their responsibilities. The cost of capacity building can be covered by the project loan funds or by the supporting funds that are provided by the Chinese side. Capacity building in environmental and social safeguard will include two aspects. First, the PMO will determine staffing requirements at different levels and additional staffing requirements. Second, the PMO will train people engaged in environmental and social safeguard for this project. Training programs for people engaged in environmental and social safeguard Time frame People involved Contents Early stage of Relevant staff of the project Trainings to enhance the knowledge of the the project component management offices staff for the fundamental policies, rules, philosophies, and measures regarding the environmental and social safeguard management for the World Bank financed projects. Early stage of Relevant staff of the project Discussion about the fundamental policies the project component management offices and rules of the environmental and social safeguard for the World Bank financed projects. Middle stage Relevant staff of the project Environmental and social safeguard of the project component management offices management practice trainings for the World Persons in charge of the project Bank financed projects; and relevant document management requirements undertaking units Late stage of Relevant staff of the project The implementation, guidance, supervision, the project component management offices test, and evaluation of the environmental and Persons in charge of the project social safeguard documents for the World Bank financed projects undertaking units 17 18