Environmental and Social Impact Assessment - Gibe III

Gibe III – Environmental and Social Impact Assessment 300 ENV R CS 002 C - A9003099
stoves and grain mills), and special assistance measures for vulnerable groups of PAPs (female-headed
households, persons with disability, the elderly, and the poorest of the poor).
III Social-Community Development Project: The communities in the project area will be affected
directly and indirectly by the project and these effects require commensurate mitigation, compensation
and social development measures. These measures include: public health intervention, improving clean
water supply and rural access roads, veterinary clinics and range development and management, etc.
IV Replacement of Affected Infrastructure and Social Services (Reservoir): The associated cost to
establish a boat service to replace the affected nine river crossings sites has been estimated and
included in the environment cost. Considering the fluctuation of water level of the reservoir (up to 90
m), a permanent infrastructure (wharf) will also be constructed at each boat service site.
V Construction of a bridge across the Gibe: Established river crossing sites (across the Gibe and Omo
Rivers) used by the agro-pastoral communities from Hadiya will be submerged. Therefore, to
compensate for this loss it is recommended to construct a bridge at one of their major crossing site
across the Gibe River and the associated cost has been estimated and included.
VI Cultural Property Protection and Promotion: As a compensation measures for the partial loss of the
historical sites known as King Ijajo Kella of Wolayita and King Halala Walls of Dawro, EEPCO will
financially assist ARCCH and the Information and Culture Bureau of SNNPR to properly study,
document and register these sites as parts of Ethiopian cultural heritage sites. The financial assistance
also includes the establishment of view points (at two representative sites) and information centres
(with associated services for tourists).
4 Training and Study Tour
Cost of training to strengthen EMU’s capability in the area of environmental management and monitoring
and international study tour to hydroelectric plant sites.
In an effort to strengthen institutional capacity and environmental awareness, seminars, workshops and study
tours to be organised under this project shall also be open for individuals from concerned ministries and
agencies such as Federal MWR, EPA, Oromiya’s office of Environmental protection, Regional Bureau of
Agriculture and Rural Development, Regional and Wereda level Environment departments, etc. The
objectives of the seminar-workshops are to ensure environmental awareness, knowledge and skill for the
implementation of this ESMP.
5 Capacity Building and Procurement
Cost to cover the establishment of a fully furnished and equipped monitoring station and a mobile laboratory
has been included.
6 Environmental Monitoring
To ensure that monitoring is adequately funded, costs to carryout a comprehensive environmental monitoring
plan has been included. This will provide the basis for rational management decisions regarding impact
control.
I Baseline Monitoring: A monitoring regime will begin at the earliest convenience to be established
against which changes during construction, and on into operation, can be assessed. EEPCO will set-up
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