Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet (Updated)

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1 THE WORLD BANK GROUP AWorld Free of Poverty ilnfoshop Date Prepared/Updated: 07/31/2002 Section I - Basic Information Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet (Updated) A. Basic Project Data Country: UGANDA Project ID: P Project: Northern Uganda Social Action Fund Task Team Leader: Norbert 0. Mugwagwa Authorized to Appraise Date: February 12, 2002 IBRD Amount ($m): Bank Approval: July 23, 2002 IDA Amount ($m): Managing Unit: AFTHI Sector: General education sector (32%); Health Lending Instrument: Specific Investment Loan (SIL) (9%); Other social services (20%); Roads & Status: Lending highways (20%); General water/sanitation/flood protection sector (19%) Theme: Other social protection and risk management (P); Civic engagement; participation and community driv (P); Conflict prevention & post-conflict reconstruction (P); Municipal governance and institution building (S); Social risk mitigation (P) I.A.2. Project Objectives: NUSAF will empower communities in Northern Uganda (18 districts located in the North and East) by enhancing their capacity to systematically identify, prioritize, and plan for their needs within their own values systems, through a social fund within the broad framework of community demand development as developed within the Bank. It will implement sustainable development initiatives that improve socio-economic services and opportunities, thereby contributing to improved livelihoods by placing money in the hands of the communities. Specifically, the project will: (a) strengthen community participation, leadership development and resource mobilization; (b) improve quality and access to social services and community-initiated infrastructure; (c) support community reconciliation and conflict management through local institutions and civil society organizations (CSO); and (d) provide and facilitate support to vulnerable groups, especially the youth and women affected by conflict; and (e) provide institutional support to build capacity to manage the project, disseminate information, monitor and evaluate activities as well as strengthen the local government institutions that provide technical support to the project. I.A.3. Project Description: The project will finance four types of activities:- (a) Community Development Initiatives (CDI), which would be small discrete sub-projects planned, managed and implemented by communities through elected committees. (b) Vulnerable Group Support (VGS) to respond to the needs of children and adults recovering from the effects of war (often needing assistance from NGOs and CBOs to manage the identified and prioritized sub-project). (c) Community

2 2 Reconciliation and Conflict Management, where communities will be facilitated to use both indigenous and modern knowledge to promote peaceful development and reduce conflicts. (d) Institutional development at community, district and national levels to ensure that local capacity is stimulated and developed for sustainable sub-project management. The estimated cost of the project is US$100 million over five years; with an additional 10% government contribution and community contribution (20% under the CDI and 5% under VGS). Community contribution would mainly be in the form of labour, local materials, and sub-project management time. Emphasis will be on rehabilitation, and infrastructure which may be rehabilitated or supplied will include: classrooms, teachers' houses, desks, laboratories, photo-voltaic units toilets/pit latrines, waste disposal, core text books, sports fields/recreation facilities, water point rehabilitation, boreholes, deep wells, spring protection, cattle watering facilities, water harvesting, headworks for water points, washing facilities, nutrition gardens (for the vulnerable). health units 2(5) and 3 (4),drug revolving funds, community cattle treatment clutch, cattle drugs, fish landing sites, granaries, existing community roads, existing airstrips, etc and others. Empowering communities to participate actively in their own development initiatives will also build and improve the trust between communities in the North and government on one hand and local government and communities on another hand. The preparation for the SAF to address this "development gap" and support the North is spearheaded by a National Task Force under the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), and a concept document has been presented to and approved by IDA as a basis for preparing an operation. I.A.4. Project Location: (Geographic location, information about the key environmental and social characteristics of the area and population likely to be affected, and proximity to any protected areas, or sites or critical natural habitats, or any other culturally or socially sensitive areas.) The project will complement Government efforts to reduce poverty by targeting eighteen (18) districts located in the political North where development has been hampered by local and cross-border conflicts. It will assist Government in its efforts to tackle poverty and bring about development through participatory community efforts that utilize community value systems, which are particularly strong in the family, clan, and cattle-rearing culture found in Northern Uganda. Northern Uganda constitutes about half (41 %) of the country, with a projected population of 5.9 million by 2001, which is 26% of the total population. The bulk of the population (90%) are subsistence food crop producers, which according to the 1999/2000 household survey are the core poor category. A significant part of the population (about 15% ) are pastoralists and located in areas along Southern Sudan and Kenya. The project will be implemented by communities through their sub-projects management committees (CPMC) and this will improve and/or increase community assets and directly respond to the needs of vulnerable community members, especially those created by past conditions of war and insecurity. Out All of the five sub-regions in the North are in a under post conflict situation although, three have had a rather longer spell and are just emerging from war been affected by war and are in the post-war reconstruction phase. The project will empower community to rebuild their lives from a group action, with communities contribution between 5 and 20% of the sub-project costs. B. Clheck Environmental Classification: F (Financial Intermediary Assessment) Comments: NUSAF will be implemented with technical facilitation from local government staff, NGOs and CBOs, as well as private firms as approved by NUSAF MU. The sub-project cycle (see Environmental and Social Management Framework attachment 1) defines the roles and responsibilities of the different actors by level during the preparation, appraisal, approval and implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the sub-project. Throughout the cycle, the different sector specialists ensure that: sector norms and standards are upheld, ongoing and planned sector initiatives are taken into account and budgetary provisions are made for any recurrent costs that may arise from the proposed sub-project. District Environmental Officers [DEOs] exist in all the 18 districts and are employees of the local government. Under the IDA supported

3 3 Environmental Management and Capacity Building Project, NEMA will facilitate capacity development of district officers for-environmental assessment. In districts targeted by NUSAF which are not targeted by the above mentioned Environmental Management and Capacity Building Project, NUSAF will fund such training using the training materials NEMA are using. An Operational Manual containing the various elements relating to planning, approval of plans, disbursement of funds, implementation and reporting, including EA and mitigation checklists is under preparation and will be appraised, and includes environmental guidelines and checklists. C. Safeguard Policies Triggered Policy Applicability Environmental Assessment (OP/BP/GP 4.01) 0 Yes 0 No 0l TBD Forestry (OP/GP 4.36) OYes * No O TBD Natural Habitats (OP/BP 4.04) (J Yes * No O TBD Safety of Dams (OP/BP 4.37) OYes * No O TBD Pest Management (OP 4.09) G Yes * No O TBD Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12) 03 Yes * No 0 TBD Indigenous Peoples (OD 4.20) C Yes * No O TBD Cultural Property (OP 4.11) 0 Yes * No 0 TBD Projects in Disputed Territories (OP/BP/GP 7.60)* 0 Yes * No 0 TBD Projects in International Waterways (OP/BP/GP 7.50) ID Yes * No 0 TBD *By supporting the proposed project, the Bank does not intend to prejudice the final determination of the parties' claims on the disputted areas Section II - Key Safeguard Issues and Their Management D. Summary of Key Safeguard Issues. Please fill in all relevant questions. If information is not available, describe steps to be taken to obtain necessary data. II.D. I a. Describe any safeguard issues and impacts associated with the proposed project. Identify and describe any potential large scale, significant and/or irreversible impacts. After the initial assessment by the communities and their facilitators, Environmental assessment will be the responsibility of the District. The District Environmental Officers or people designated by them will screen proposed subprojects as part of the District Technical Committee [DTC] responsible for the technical appraisal, and ensure that appropriate environmental assessment of each subproject is carried out. Before approving a subproject, the DEO on behalf of the DTC, verifies that the subproject meets the environmental requirements of appropriate, indigenous, national and local authorities and is consistent with applicable environmental policies of the Bank. NEMA and/or its vetted consultants will train those DEOs not yet exposed to the EA for community projects as well as familiarity with Bank safeguards issues, partly through NUSAFs training program, and partly through the training funded under other Bank's and local donors' environmental projects operational in the selected districts. It is expected that NUSAF will enhance the capacity for safeguarding environment issues in the local institutions of the Local Councils [LCl to LC5] as prescribed by the National Constitution. Community sub-projects may not in each case have negative environmental effects, but the cumulative effects may over time be negative, thus necessitating a holistic involvement in community driven development on the part of DEOs and their staff. The Uganda Land Act 1998 now under implementation recognizes that land belongs to the people of Uganda. The project area is entirely a customary land tenure regime in which communities have full rights on land based on clans, family and tribal lineage. However, since NUSAF expects to explicitly exclude sub-projects involving involuntary resettlement or land acquisition in its design, OD4.30 will not be applicable. Il.D. I b. Describe any potential cumulative impacts due to application of more than one safeguard policy or due to multiple project component.

4 4 N/A Il.D.lc Describe any potential long term impacts due to anticipated future activities in the project area. N/A II.D.2. In light of I, describe the proposed treatment of alternatives (if required) N/A II.D.3. Describe arrangement for the borrower to address safeguard issues The framework for environmental assessment and mitigation checklists in NUSAF attends to relevant safeguard issues through: * Inclusion of environmental concerns in the PRA process supporting communities when prioritizing and identifying interventions under the CDI component, to enable communities to make environmentally sound development choices. * Defining responsible agents (the district environmental officers, other district technical staff or others designated by them) and methods for Environmental Assessment (EA) screening in the sub-project cycle for the components in NUSAF, including designing checklists for interventions in different sectors. The checklists and screening process will be incorporated in the implementation manuals for the different NUSAF components and become preconditions for allocation of funds to any proposed activity. * Defining a system for proposing mitigation measures by the communities and local government, to be included in the design of the activity where EA shows necessity for it. * Should any subprojects potentially violate safeguards issues, the NUSAF Management Unit will alert the office of the Prime Minister who in turn will assess and alert the Bank. This is stated in the Environment and Social Management framework accompanying this. II.D.4. Identify the key stakeholders and describe the mechanisms for consultation and disclosure on safeguard policies, with an emphasis on potentially affected people. NUSAF activities are community-based and will be openly discussed in village meetings during the process of community facilitation, which most often will encourage focused discussion with specific interest groups like youth, women and elders. These meetings will lead up to sub-project identification, prioritization, planning and local agreement, which factors in all community groups concerns. This process is envisioned to bring out specific environmental and social concerns that may be directly affecting a given community group. Activities are also discussed by, in the elected district assemblies, the Local Councils (LCs)--LC1 to LCV, that are representation of the various categories of the Ugandan population.and in planning meetings in the local authorities. All environmrental concerns and mitigation measures will be discussed and agreed upon during these sessions. E. Safeguards Classification. Category is determined by the highest impact in any policy. Or on basis of cumulative impacts from multiple safeguards. Whenever an individual safeguard policy is triggered the provisions of that policy apply. [ ] SI. - Significant, cumulative and/or irreversible impacts; or significant technical and institutional risks in management of one or more safeguard areas [ ] S2. - One or more safeguard policies are triggered, but effects are limited in their impact and are technically and institutionally manageable [ ] S3. -No safeguard issues [X] SF. - Financial intermediary projects, social development funds, community driven development or similar projects which require a safeguard framework or programmatic approach to address

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6 6 F. Disclosure Requirements Environmental Assessment/Analysis/Management Plan: Expected Actual 9/21/2001 9/21/ /18/2001 Date of distributing the Exec. Summary of the EA to the ED (For category A projects) Resettlement Action Plan/Framework: Expected Actual Indigenous Peoples Development Plan/Framework: Expected Actual Pest Management Plan: Expected Actual Dam Safety Management Plan: Expected Actual If in-country disclosure of any of the above documents is not expected, please explain why. Signed and submitted by Name Date Task Team Leader: Norbert 0. Mugwagwa 07/23/2002 Project Safeguards Specialists 1: Project Safeguards Specialists 2: Project Safeguards Specialists 3: Approved by: Name Date Regional Safeguards Coordinator: Serigne Omar Fye 07/23/2002 Sector Manager/Director: Dzingai Mutumbuka 07/23/2002 For a list of World Bank news releases on projects and reports, click here i CFRr EA.i LSInri WC_ H A IRwC l