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Learn about operational policies, safeguard policies, and best practices for effective development projects to prevent harm, maximize opportunities, and ensure accountability.

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  1. Module Overview of Safeguard Best Practices Jayantha Perera, PhD

  2. Safeguard Policies - What are they? • Operational policies are vital for poverty reduction and sustainable development. • A subset of operational policies • Singled out to stress the importance of • environmental and social objectives, • enhancing quality of project operations. • World Bank pioneered; ADB 1987 and 1995. • Moving from state-centric to people-centric approach

  3. Safeguard Policies • Environment (Env) • Involuntary Resettlement (IR) • Indigenous Peoples (IP)

  4. Safeguard Best Practices/Policies for What? • prevent and mitigate harm to • people • Environment in development process • maximize development opportunities • build project ownership and accountability among local population • addresses reputational risk to EA

  5. ExampleWhat is Scope of ADB’s Safeguards? • Public and private sector investments • Project and associated facilities • Partial or fully funded by ADB • Temporary or permanent project impacts • Planning, implementation and operations

  6. Key Objectives of Resettlement Safeguard Policy • IR to be avoided, where feasible. • If unavoidable, compensate & rehabilitate • Resettlement measures are integrated into project design and dealt with throughout project cycle. • IR measures to be designed with time-bound actions and sufficient budget

  7. Elements of Effective Safeguards • Inputs should be timely and front-loaded for better results • Sufficient resources should be made available • Institutional capability should be ensured • Appropriate consultants should be involved • Affected public and NGOs informed and consulted

  8. Non-compliance of IR Safeguards - Why • Inadequate consultation and disclosure • Poorly defined entitlements particularly of the poor and vulnerable groups • Poor institutional capacity • Inadequate budget • Clashes between local laws and international best practices

  9. Challenges Complaints are mostly related to: • Lack of consultation with affected people and NGOs • Failure to disclose project information and plans • Poor planning and implementation safeguard docs. • Inadequate financial and institutional resources • Often not legally binding • Stand side by side with laws and regulations – not assimilated • Often limited donor-funded projects

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