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Box 9.16
Environmental Management Plan
Develop an environmental management and monitoring
plan for project implementation that addresses all
key environmental quality indicators and includes
institutional roles, responsibilities, capacities, and
training requirements, in accordance with annex C to
OP 4.01. The EMP should include mitigation measures,
institutional strengthening, training, and monitoring,
as follows:
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Mitigation of environmental impacts. Recommend
feasible and cost-effective measures to prevent or
reduce significant negative impacts to acceptable
levels. Estimate the impacts and costs of those measures.
Consider compensation to affected parties for
impacts that cannot be mitigated. The plan should
include proposed work programs, budget estimates,
schedules, staffing, and training requirements, and
other necessary support services to implement the
mitigating measures.
Institutional strengthening and training. Identification
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of institutional needs to implement EA recommendations.
Recommend any additional support that
should be provided to the PA management institutions,
the project implementation units, the relevant
ministries, and others, to strengthen or expand them
so that the management and monitoring plans in the
EA can be implemented. The institutional needs
should be presented separately for the two entities.
Monitoring. Prepare detailed arrangements for
monitoring implementation of mitigating measures
and the impacts of the project during construction
and operation. Include in the plan an estimate of
capital and operating costs, and a description of
other inputs (such as training and institutional
strengthening) needed to carry it out.
It should be noted that the EMP must be incorporated
by reference in the legal agreement for the project.
As a result, the EMP must be clear and coherent to support
any efforts to determine compliance with the EMP.
Source: World Bank 2003b.
Box 9.17
Assessment of Environmental Impacts
and Proposed Mitigation Measures
Determine the potential positive and negative
environmental and social impacts of the project
with respect to the proposed PAs, including
already defined and proposed expansions.
(Description of any social impacts should be based
on the results of the Social Assessment.) These
impacts should include any future development of
the villages and settlements within each PA, as well
as impacts from construction of any PA infrastructure
(visitor centers, headquarters facilities,
latrines, and the like), rehabilitation of access
roads and hiking trails, and changes in land use or
vegetative cover. Propose an environmental
screening process for activities to be financed by
the small grants program during project implementation.
Source: World Bank 2003b.
Qualifications of the consultant for the environmental
assessment. The consultant or team of consultants
should have the following qualifications:
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extensive experience in the environmental field, preferably
at the international level, and in the preparation of
environmental management plans according to international
standards
practical experience in biological surveys and assessment
in the country in question or a similar country
proven ability to write clear and concise reports
field experience in environmental assessment in the
country in question or a similar country
extensive experience in the management of forest pests
basic understanding of cost-benefit analyses
ability to speak local languages
IDENTIFYING CRITICAL FORESTS AND
CRITICAL NATURAL HABITATS THROUGH
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
The World Bank’s officially recognized system for interpreting
the definitions above and determining what areas con-
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