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Box 1.2
World Bank Safeguard Policies and Guidelines
The safeguard policies and guidelines include:
• World Bank OP 4.01 for Environmental Assessment
• World Bank OP 4.04 for Natural Habitats
• World Bank OP 4.12 for Involuntary Resettlement
• World Bank OD 4.10 for Indigenous People
• World Bank OPN 4.11 for Physical Cultural Resources
• World Bank EA Sourcebook Update No 4: Sectoral EA (October 1993)
• World Bank EA Sourcebook Update No 25: EMPs (January 1999)
More specifically, the following policies are likely to be triggered by the
project activities:
OP 4.01 – Environmental Assessment
Environmental Assessment is used in the World Bank to identify, avoid and
mitigate the potential negative environmental impacts associated with the
Bank’s lending and guarantee operations. In World Bank operations, the
purpose of Environmental Assessment is to improve decision making in order
to ensure that project options under consideration are sound and sustainable
and that potentially affected people have been properly consulted.
OP 4.01 – Environmental Assessment contains guidance on the World Bank
requirements on various aspects of the EIA process. These include guidance
on the categorisation of projects during Project screening, provisions for sector
investing and financial intermediaries, exemptions for emergency situations,
requirements for institutional capacity and requirements for public
consultation and disclosure.
According to the World Bank OP 4.01, the proposed project is likely to be
classified as a Category A project. Projects under this Category are likely to
have significant adverse environmental impacts that are considered sensitive,
diverse, or unprecedented and which may affect an area beyond the site or
facilities. An EIA for a Category A project is required to identify and assess
potential negative and positive environmental and social impacts, compare
these with those of feasible alternatives (including the no project alternative),
and recommend mitigation measures to reduce negative impacts and enhance
benefits. The EIA process and this EIA report have been conducted and
prepared in line with OP 4.01.
OP 4.12 – Physical Cultural Resources
The World Bank recognises physical cultural resources (PCR) as valuable
scientific and historical assets and an integral part of a people’s cultural
identity and practices. Thus development projects that are likely to have an
impact on PCR must work to avoid or mitigate adverse impacts. In the event
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