The objective of the Himachal Pradesh Forests for Prosperity Project for India is ‘to improve the governance, management, and community use of forests and pastures at selected sites in Himachal Pradesh’, by strengthening the institutional capacity of the state, improving the efficiency of core forestry operations, creating incentives for community participation and strengthening the value chain of select NTFPs for effective forest governance.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: creates sanctions and punitive action that discourages access to and use of forest resources in Reserve Forests, unless specifically permitted; in Protected Areas (PAs) it prevents/ regulates right of community/ individual to access any portion of protected forest for extracting forest produce, cut grass and pasture cattle; takes ownership away from community, erodes customary rights & traditional practices, by shifting from community to scientific management of forests; poor community ownership and involvement can lead to resource degradation and perpetuate poverty in the long term; improved forest density and quality through community conservation efforts may led to better wildlife base, potential man-animal conflicts and notification of new PAs (in the long term) leading to further restrictions on access and use; reduces incentives for community conservation, restriction on following traditional management practices and imposes forest working plan on any community initiated silvi-cultural operations; seeks to protect forest dwellers against habitat loss, alienation and diversion of grazing lands and other common property resources (CPRs); limited role of local community in planning compensatory afforestation, developing Catchment Area Treatment Plan (CATP), linking them to micro-plans; and poor implementation and consequent resource depletion can reduce community resilience and their adaptive capacity.
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The development objective of the Hunan Integrated Management of Contaminated Agricultural Land Project for China is to demonstrate a risk-based integrated approach to managing agricultural land contaminated with heavy metals and other pollutants for safe agricultural production in selected counties in Hunan.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) publicize knowledge on food safety to all residents so as to enable them to realize that adoption of necessary measures can effectively lower heavy metal pollution; (2) adopt relevant publicity measures to correctly guide public opinion and prevent incorrect relay of erroneous information; and (3) wording shall be noticed in each stage of the project to avoid labeling as much as possible.
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The development objective of Resilient Landscapes and Livelihoods Project is to improve livelihoods, climate resilience, carbon storage, and land productivity in vulnerable rural major watersheds in selected vulnerable watersheds in six regions of Ethiopia.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts include: (i) focus on supporting smallholder farmers to scale up and adopt best-fit sustainable land and water management technologies and practices; (ii) creation of benefit streams through markets and other market based instruments like results-based payments involve the risk /challenge of not properly considering the elderly, people with disability and poor members of the community; (iii) watershed community saving is part of the project activities that helps Users’ Groups who voluntarily organize themselves to engage in IGA suitable to their respective environment; (iv) female household heads may face the risk of not benefiting from the Project in equal measure with male counterparts because of not being able to balance their domestic responsibilities with their project-related role in the treatment of communal lands; (v) implementation of land administration and certification should not be based on wholesale or universal application in all project woredas; Some of the mitigation measures include: (i) device a mechanism to include ''hunters and gatherers" livelihood strategies into the RLLP activities; (ii) It is recommended that the project through consultation with the beneficiary communities, devise possible mechanisms on how to make the old, the sick and people with disability benefit from the project even when they might not afford to contribute either labor or cash to the project implementation; (iii) for vulnerable and historically underserved communities unable to join cooperatives due to inability to pay the registration fee should be supported through flexible local level solutions such as means-test-based exemption of registration fee; (iv) especial support needs to be provided to women playing the dual role of mothers and household heads, and active participation in the Project with male community members; (v) it is highly recommended that locally available social capital such as traditional and indigenous knowledge of land use and natural resources conservation practices, conflict resolution for effective implementation of project activities to facilitate and speed up the implementation; (vi) care needs to be exercised to make sure that the land administration and use of the project is not implemented on wholesale basis in all project woreda, and instead considers the unique landholding and land use characteristics of the historically underserved population groups in the developing regional states; (vii) Strengthening such establishments plays an important role in making sure that women who lease their land in sharecropping arrangements will not unfairly lose their landholding rights because of the breach of agreements in the land registration and certification process.
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The development objective of the Gansu Rural-Urban Integration Infrastructure Project for China is to provide residents in select areas of Wuwei municipality and Linxia County with expanded all-weather access to rural and urban areas.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts include: (i) dust and noise generated during project construction and temporary dumping of construction waste will cause temporary adverse effects on the environment of the project area; (ii) people such as unreasonable methods may trigger dissatisfaction among ethnic minorities and then affect the smooth development of the construction; (iii) project construction workers and hired migrant workers with different ethnic groups will come to the project area during or after the project construction; (iv) although the design of the project fully listened to the opinions and needs of the female groups and sought to meet the needs of the female groups, it is inevitable that the project in the implementation and operation management would possibly neglectthe women's needs, which in turn reduces women's expected benefits in projects, dueto the lack of gender sensitivity and the low social status of women. (v) decreased agricultural income of women due to land acquisition; (vi) traffic safety awareness is not strong; (vi) women are excluded from technical training and market awareness training; (vii) inconvenience caused to residents travelling along the route during the construction period; (viii) adversely affect the safety of life and property of local people; (ix) impact of land acquisition and house demolition; (x) improper traffic management or post-maintenance may result in the project's goal being unable to be truly realized; Some of the mitigation measures are include : (i) strengthen the project construction quality and supervision to ensure that theroad and its infrastructure construction meet the requirements of the masses; (ii) reducing the negative impact of project construction on daily life of residents; (iii) strengthen information disclosure and public participation; (iv) strengthen traffic safety education and publicity; (v) focus on the management and maintenance work after the road is completed; (vi) support affected resident's livelihood;
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The development objective of the Chongqing New Urbanization Pilot and Demonstration Project for China is to improve use of public space and increase pedestrian mobility in selected districts of Chongqing's Central city.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) risks in community autonomy; (ii) risks of urban gentrification; (iii) risks of increased traffic accidents; (iv) risks of occupying public resources; (v) environmental and facility maintenance risks; (vi) risks of store operations; (vii) safety risks of construction; and (viii) ideas and opinions of nearby residents, especially women, old people and other vulnerable groups, may be ignored at the design stage. Some of the mitigation measures include: (i) apply different autonomy patterns to different communities, such as granting government support to communities short of resources, and establishing community autonomy organizations for communities with sufficient resources; (ii) grant government subsidies for property management fees to low-income population; (iii) set up safety warning signs near communities or parks, and strengthen safety education; (iv) specify management responsibilities, and conduct normative community autonomy; (v) establish a sound management mechanism; (vi) conduct construction stage by stage, and reserve spaces for trucks and pedestrians; (vii) include construction safety management in construction contracts, and strength safety education for construction workers; and (viii) fully consider needs of women, old people and other vulnerable groups in old community renewal to improve facilities of old communities.
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The development objective of the Chongqing New Urbanization Pilot and Demonstration Project for China is to improve use of public space and increase pedestrian mobility in selected districts of Chongqing's Central city.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) risks in community autonomy; (ii) risks of urban gentrification; (iii) risks of increased traffic accidents; (iv) risks of occupying public resources; (v) environmental and facility maintenance risks; (vi) risks of store operations; (vii) safety risks of construction; and (viii) ideas and opinions of nearby residents, especially women, old people and other vulnerable groups, may be ignored at the design stage. Some of the mitigation measures include: (i) apply different autonomy patterns to different communities, such as granting government support to communities short of resources, and establishing community autonomy organizations for communities with sufficient resources; (ii) grant government subsidies for property management fees to low-income population; (iii) set up safety warning signs near communities or parks, and strengthen safety education; (iv) specify management responsibilities, and conduct normative community autonomy; (v) establish a sound management mechanism; (vi) conduct construction stage by stage, and reserve spaces for trucks and pedestrians; (vii) include construction safety management in construction contracts, and strength safety education for construction workers; and (viii) fully consider needs of women, old people and other vulnerable groups in old community renewal to improve facilities of old communities.
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The development objectives of the Second Phase of the Modernization of Rani Jamara Kulariya Irrigation Scheme Project for Nepal are to improve irrigation services and to promote improved farming practices for farmers in the irrigated areas of the Rani Jamara Kulariya irrigation scheme.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) to ensure free, prior and informed consultation with Indigenous Peoples and other vulnerable groups during throughout the project cycle; (ii) capacity support activities like leadership trainings targeted to vulnerable groups; (iii) reduce labor influx by tapping into local workforce; (iv) incorporate social and environmental mitigation measures into the civil works contracts; (v) adopt worker code of conduct with associated penalties for violation; (vi)mobilization of the women representatives or educated women/girl from the Occupational Caste, or indigenous community for social mobilization and communication for specific target group/community; (vii) awareness raising on the utilization of improved infrastructures during the meetings and site visit by project staff, consultants.
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The development objective of the Anhui Aged Care System Demonstration Project for China is to support establishment and management of diversified aged care service system of Anhui Provincial Government.
... See More + Some of the negative measures and mitigation measures include : (i) some aged-care institutions worry that the poor geographical location of some sites will be not suitable for living of the aged once the standard community sites are constructed; (ii) the implementation of project may exert impacts on other residents of communities due to the occupation over the areas that they can have activities previously, and the impact will be negative if no corresponding compensations are made; (iii) to provide non-agricultural jobs for female in project area; (iv) to alleviate the household labor burden of women in the project area; (v) recruit and train new employees for Community-based and home-based care service for the aged; (vi) organize and train volunteers for nursing homes; (vii) do well in the transition work during the implementation and strive for the support of staff and the aged at welfare home; and(viii) establish a participation-based monitoring and evaluation mechanism.
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The development objective of the Jiangxi Integrated Rural and Urban Water Supply and Wastewater Management Project for China is to improve access to water supply and wastewater services in select rural counties of Jiangxi Province.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) keeping away from residential areas where possible; (ii) recruiting workers from local residents and training them; (iii) conducting education on public health and AIDS prevention, and including this in construction contracts; (iv) guiding villagers to use safe and stable tap water; (v) inspecting the operation of wastewater treatment facilities regularly, and giving effective feedback; (vi) providing labor safety and skills training to recruited system operation and maintenance staff; (vii) establishing a routine water quality and quantity supervision and feedback mechanism, and handling feedback timely to motivate villagers; (viii) consulting local residents on indoor pipeline modification; and (ix) completing land use formalities and obtaining land.
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The development objective of the Jiangxi Integrated Rural and Urban Water Supply and Wastewater Management Project for China is to improve access to water supply and wastewater services in select rural counties of Jiangxi Province.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (i) keeping away from residential areas where possible; (ii) recruiting workers from local residents and training them; (iii) conducting education on public health and AIDS prevention, and including this in construction contracts; (iv) guiding villagers to use safe and stable tap water; (v) inspecting the operation of wastewater treatment facilities regularly, and giving effective feedback; (vi) providing labor safety and skills training to recruited system operation and maintenance staff; (vii) establishing a routine water quality and quantity supervision and feedback mechanism, and handling feedback timely to motivate villagers; (viii) consulting local residents on indoor pipeline modification; and (ix) completing land use formalities and obtaining land.
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