The development objective of the Peaceful and Prosperous Communities Project for Myanmar is to improve access to basic infrastructure, services, and economic opportunities for vulnerable communities in selected conflict affected areas of Myanmar in a conflict-sensitive manner.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) establish mechanisms for regular monitoring, reflection, and adaptive learning, including near real-time monitoring procedures, a project management information system that allows for public access to project data, social audits and other feed-back mechanisms, third-party monitoring and annual multi-stakeholder reviews; (2) provide do-no-harm and conflict sensitivity facilitation training to staff from government, service providers, and Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) at all administrative levels. In some cases, bring people from different organizations and department to one training to build network, relationship, and trust; (3) attention will be paid to ensuring equitable allocation of resources across all areas of the township, based exclusively on the population and number of villages in a given village tract; and (4) engage youth in community development work and provide them training or workshops for knowledge improvement in civic education, environmental conservation, gender, trafficking activities, and provide them with some support so that they can initiate some social activities.
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The development objective of the Ningbo Sustainable Urbanization Demonstration Project for China is to improve the use of urban public space and urban mobility; and reduce flood risk in selected counties in Ningbo municipality.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) attention should be paid to needs of women, old people, and other vulnerable groups at relevant meetings; (2) land acquisition and house demolition should be minimized in the project design, and full compensation and livelihood restoration measures should be offered; (3) residents should be notified to take safety and noise protection measures, warning signs provided, and safety education should be strengthened; (4) rational decisions should be made, and proper safety management measures should be taken; (5) traffic safety publicity should be strengthened, and traffic safety knowledge communicated in innovative ways; and (6) road maintenance should be conducted regularly.
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The development objective of Competitiveness and Sector Diversification Project is to facilitate private investment and strengthen value chains in targeted industries in Suriname.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts include: (i) impact on employment; (ii) no national rules and regulations for mining firms with regard to contributing to community development; (iii) immediate mining-induced pollution and depletion of natural resources harms traditional subsistence activities; (iv) a longer-term legacy of pollution of Indigenous and Maroon customary lands may cause negative health effects and render the area unsuitable for traditional livelihood activities; and (v) impact on employment. Some of the mitigation measures include: (i) mining firms have potential to hire Indigenous and Maroon labourers in areas with limited employment opportunities, in fixed jobs and as contractors; (ii) in future mineral agreements, more explicit regulations on community development contributions may be included; (iii) mineral agreements may oblige mining firms to pay a fee for independent environmental monitoring; (iv) establishment of the Minerals institute, can help generate income for independent environmental and social monitoring of extractive industry development; and (v) Maroon and Indigenous labourers of mining multinationals learn transferrable skills and reap secondary benefits that provide livelihood security;
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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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