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The Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) for India's COVID-19 Emergency Response Project (P173836). The ESCP sets out material measures and actions to ensure the Project is implemented in accordance with the Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs). The Recipient, with involvement from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC), is responsible for compliance with all ESCP requirements. The ESCP includes regular reporting on environmental, social, health and safety performance, assessments and management plans, exclusions, labor management, resource efficiency and pollution prevention, community health and safety, use of existing facilities and lands, and training topics for personnel.
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activities,in accordance with ESSs and the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) to be prepared for the project, including to ensure that individuals or groups who, because of their particular circumstances, may be disadvantaged or vulnerable, have access to the development benefits resulting from the Project. The ESMF will include Biomedical Waste Management Plan.The ESMF will also include a template for Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) as necessary for low- medium scale construction works.The ESMF will describe the procedures for screening of activities to be supported under the CERC component and actions to mitigate potential adverse impacts. b. Prepare, disclose, adopt, and implement any environmental and social management plans or other instruments required for the respective Project activities as per the assessment process, in accordance with the ESSs, ESMFand relevant Good International Industry Practice (GIIP), including any new WHO guidance on COVID19in a manner acceptable to theBank. c. Incorporate the relevant aspects of this ESCP, including, inter alia, any environmental and social management plans or other instruments, ESS requirements, and any other required ESHS measures, into the ESHS specifications of the procurement documents and contracts with contractors and supervising firms. Thereafter ensure that the contractors and supervising firms comply with the ESHS specifications of their respective contracts. d. In the event the CERC component is operationalized, activities supported thereunder would also be screened for environmental and social risks and subjected to the provisions of the ESMF. a. The ESMF will be prepared within 60 days from the Effective Date. Other than procurement of goods and services (including testing kits, laboratory equipment, PPE, hospital beds, bedsheets, towels, disposable items etc. that may be required for screening posts, quarantine centers, isolation wards and hospitals, equipment and items for biomedical waste disposal) and minor civil works (including upgrading of existing wards, labs, isolation areas), all other major civil works involving construction of new facilities (hospitals, quarantine centers, laboratories etc.)and activities requiring ESMF screening cannot start before the ESMF is consulted and disclosed and other environmental and social assessments (if required after screening) are in place. b. Plans or instruments prepared before carrying out of the relevant activities, and thereafter implemented throughout the carrying out of such activities. c. Before launching the procurement process for the relevant activities and thereafter ensure that contractors and supervising firms comply with the ESHS specifications in their contracts through their involvement in the respective Project activities.
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1.3 EXCLUSIONS: The following type of activities shall not be eligible for finance under the Project: Activities that may cause long term, permanent and/or irreversible adverseimpacts (e.g. loss of major natural habitat) Activities that have high probability of causing serious adverse effects to human health and/or the environment (e.g. constructing new hospitals without Effluent Treatment Plants, related to general wastewater treatment, not COVID- 19 ) Activities that may affect lands or rights of indigenous people or other vulnerable minorities Activities that may involve permanent resettlement or land acquisition or adverse impacts on cultural heritage All the other excluded activities set out in the ESMF of the Project These exclusions shall be applied as part of the screening process conducted under action 1.2.a. above.
2.1 LABOR MANAGEMENT: The Project shall be carried out in accordance with the applicable requirements of ESS2, in a manner acceptable to the Bank, including through, inter alia,implementing adequate occupational health and safety measures (including emergency preparedness and response measures, the ESHGs and other relevant GIIP including the updated national and/or WHO guidelines on COVID19 in all facilities, including laboratories, quarantine and isolation centers, and screening posts), setting out grievance arrangements for Project workers, and incorporating labor requirements into the ESHS specifications of the procurement documents and contracts with contractors and supervising firms. Throughout Project implementation. MOHFW, ICMR, NCDC
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5.2 The Recipient will carry out all activities in existing healthcare facilities and/or using available Government lands or direct purchase from the land owners. Throughout Project implementation. MOHFW, ICMR, NCDC ESS 6: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF LIVING NATURAL RESOURCES 6.1 Relevant aspects of this standard shall be considered, as needed, under action 1.2 above. Throughout Project implementation. MOHFW, ICMR, NCDC ESS 7: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES/ HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED TRADITIONAL LOCAL COMMUNITIES 7.1 Relevant aspects of this standard shall be considered, as needed, under action 1.2 above Throughout Project implementation. MOHFW, ICMR, NCDC ESS 8: CULTURAL HERITAGE 8 .1 Relevant aspects of this standard shall be considered, as needed, under action 1.2 above Throughout Project implementation. MOHFW, ICMR, NCDC ESS 9: FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES Not relevant. ESS 10: STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE 10.1 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PLAN: Prepare, disclose, adopt, and implement a Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) consistent with ESS10, in a manner acceptable to the Association. A preliminary SEP is prepared and will be updated in 30 days following the Effective Date. The SEP will be continuously updated throughout the project implementation. The SEP will be implemented throughout Project implementation.
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