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GEF Environmental & Social Safeguards Policy: Ensuring Sustainable Development

Learn about the GEF’s approach to environmental & social safeguards to address risks & impacts in projects. Explore minimum standards & guidelines for compliance.

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GEF Environmental & Social Safeguards Policy: Ensuring Sustainable Development

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  1. Environmental and Social Safeguards Roland Sundstrom Senior Policy Officer, GEF Secretariat GEF Introduction Seminar Washington, DC January 23, 2019

  2. The GEF was established to support “the protection of the global environment and promote thereby environmentally sound and sustainable economic development” [providing for]“consultation with, and participation [of] major groups and local communities” (Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility) In line with the Instrument, the Policy on E&S Safeguards aims to ensure that GEF projects and programs systematically identify and address any environmental and social risks and potential impacts

  3. evolution of the policy

  4. the GEF’s approach at a glance GEF Conflict Resolution Commissioner

  5. minimum standards for GEF Agencies MS 1:Environmental and Social Assessment, Management and Monitoring MS 2: Accountability, Grievance and Conflict Resolution MS 3: Biodiversity Conservation and the Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources MS 4:Restrictions on Land Use and Involuntary Resettlement MS 5: Indigenous Peoples MS 6:Cultural Heritage MS 7: Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention MS 8: Labor and Working Conditions MS 9: Community Health, Safety and Security

  6. E&S safeguards in the project cycle + annual reporting by Agencies on cases reported to their accountability, grievance and conflict resolution mechanisms in connection with GEF projects or programs

  7. next steps guidelines for documentation, monitoring and reporting; compliance assessment assessment of Agency compliance capture of data and information through GEF Portal sharing knowledge

  8. references Policy on Environmental and Social Safeguards http://www.thegef.org/sites/default/files/council-meeting-documents/EN_GEF.C.55.07.Rev_.01_ES_Safeguards.pdf For follow-up questions:ksundstrom@thegef.org

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