Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (2024)

Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (1)
ESS1Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impactssets out the Borrower’s responsibilities for assessing, managing and monitoring environmental and social risks and impacts associated with each stage of a project supported by the Bank through Investment Project Financing (IPF), in order to achieve environmental and social outcomes consistent with the Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs).

Read the fullESS1: Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts

Related:
- ESS1 Guidance Note(PDF)
- ESF Resources

Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (2)
ESS2Labor and Working Conditionsrecognizes the importance of employment creation and income generation in the pursuit of poverty reduction and inclusive economic growth. Borrowers can promote sound worker-management relationships and enhance the development benefits of a project by treating workers in the project fairly and providing safe and healthy working conditions.

Read the fullESS2: Labor and Working Conditions

Resources:
- ESS2 Guidance Note(PDF)
- ESF Resources

Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (3)
ESS3 Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention and Managementrecognizes that economic activity and urbanization often generate pollution to air, water, and land, and consume finite resources that may threaten people, ecosystem services and the environment at the local, regional, and global levels. This ESS sets out the requirements to address resource efficiency and pollution prevention and management throughout the project life-cycle.

Read the fullESS3: Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention and Management.

Resources:
- ESS3 Guidance Note(PDF)
- ESF Resources

Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (4)
ESS4: Community Health and Safetyaddresses the health, safety, and security risks and impacts on project-affected communities and the corresponding responsibility of Borrowers to avoid or minimize such risks and impacts, with particular attention to people who, because of their particular circumstances, may be vulnerable.

Read the fullESS4: Community Health and Safety

Resources:
- ESS4 Guidance Note(PDF)
- ESF Resources

Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (5)
ESS5: Land Acquisition, Restrictions on Land Use and Involuntary Resettlement- involuntary resettlement should be avoided. Where involuntary resettlement is unavoidable, it will be minimized and appropriate measures to mitigate adverse impacts on displaced persons (and on host communities receiving displaced persons) will be carefully planned and implemented.

Read the fullESS5: Land Acquisition, Restrictions on Land Use and Involuntary Resettlement

Resources:
- ESS5 Guidance Note (PDF)
- ESF Resources

Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (6)
ESS6: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resourcesrecognizes that protecting and conserving biodiversity and sustainably managing living natural resources are fundamental to sustainable development and it recognizes the importance of maintaining core ecological functions of habitats, including forests, and the biodiversity they support. ESS6 also addresses sustainable management of primary production and harvesting of living natural resources, and recognizes the need to consider the livelihood of project-affected parties, including Indigenous Peoples, whose access to, or use of, biodiversity or living natural resources may be affected by a project.

Read the fullESS6: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources

Resources:
- ESS6 Guidance Note (PDF)
- ESF Resources

Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (7)
ESS7: Indigenous Peoples/Sub-Saharan African Historically Underserved Traditional Local Communitiesensures that the development process fosters full respect for the human rights, dignity, aspirations, identity, culture, and natural resource-based livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples/Sub-Saharan African Historically Underserved Traditional Local Communities. ESS7 is also meant to avoid adverse impacts of projects on Indigenous Peoples/Sub-Saharan African Historically Underserved Traditional Local Communities, or when avoidance is not possible, to minimize, mitigate and/or compensate for such impacts.

Read the fullESS7: Indigenous Peoples/Sub-Saharan African Historically Underserved Traditional Local Communities

Resources:
- ESS7 Guidance Note (PDF)
- ESF Resources

Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (8)
ESS8: Cultural Heritagerecognizes that cultural heritage provides continuity in tangible and intangible forms between the past, present and future. ESS8 sets out measures designed to protect cultural heritage throughout the project life-cycle.

Read the fullESS8: Cultural Heritage

Resources:
- ESS8 Guidance Note (PDF)
- ESF Resources

Environmental and Social Standards (ESS) (9)
ESS9: Financial Intermediaries(FIs) recognizes that strong domestic capital and financial markets and access to finance are important for economic development, growth and poverty reduction. FIs are required to monitor and manage the environmental and social risks and impacts of their portfolio and FI subprojects, and monitor portfolio risk, as appropriate to the nature of intermediated financing. The way in which the FI will manage its portfolio will take various forms, depending on a number of considerations, including the capacity of the FI and the nature and scope of the funding to be provided by the FI.

Read the fullESS9: Financial Intermediaries

Resources:
- ESS9 Guidance Note (PDF)
- ESF Resources

ESS10: Stakeholder Engagement and Information Disclosurerecognizes the importance of open and transparent engagement between the Borrower and project stakeholders as an essential element of good international practice. Effective stakeholder engagement can improve the environmental and social sustainability of projects, enhance project acceptance, and make a significant contribution to successful project design and implementation.

Read the fullESS10: Stakeholder Engagement and Information Disclosure

Resources:
- ESS10 Guidance Note (PDF)
- ESF Resources

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