is not in accordance with national law Use of Role of Borrower frameworks It is a welcome and major step for the Bank to mainstream the use of Borrower’s Environmental and in the management and national systems. The Chinese framework on EIA, etc. is more stringent Social Framework assessment of environmental than that of the Bank. For small community based or small grant and social (E&S) risks and operations, the bank safeguard requirements should be as simple as impacts where these will possible. allow projects to achieve Clarification was sought on why the language used changed from “the objectives materially to country system” “the Borrower’s framework”. consistent with Environmental The safeguards should be consistent with Chinese law and Bank’s and Social Standards (ESSs) national policies. Approach for making decision on the use of Borrower frameworks, including the methodology for assessing where frameworks will allow projects to achieve objectives materially consistent with the ESSs, and the exercise of Bank discretion Role of Borrower frameworks in high and substantial risk projects Co-financing/ Arrangements on E&S Co-financing: In some past Board project documents, the Bank seemed common approach standards in co-financing to apply different approaches in E&S requirement for different situations where the requiring some MDB/bilateral donors to apply the Bank’s standards are E&S standards but not on others. different from those of the Bank Adaptive risk Approach to monitoring E&S management compliance and changes to the project during implementation
is not in accordance with national law Use of Borrower’s Environmental and Social Framework Role of Borrower frameworks in the management and assessment of environmental and social (E&S) risks and impacts where these will allow projects to achieve objectives materially consistent with Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs) Approach for making decision on the use of Borrower frameworks, including the methodology for assessing where frameworks will allow projects to achieve objectives materially consistent with the ESSs, and the exercise of Bank discretion Role of Borrower frameworks in high and substantial risk projects It is a welcome and major step for the Bank to mainstream the use of national systems. The Chinese framework on EIA, etc. is more stringent than that of the Bank. For small community based or small grant operations, the bank safeguard requirements should be as simple as possible. Clarification was sought on why the language used changed from “the country system” to “the Borrower’s framework”. The Bank’s safeguards should be consistent with Chinese law and national policies. Co-financing/ common approach Arrangements on E&S standards in co-financing situations where the standards are different from those of the Bank Co-financing: In some past Board project documents, the Bank seemed to apply different approaches in E&S requirement for different requiring some MDB/bilateral donors to apply the Bank’s E&S standards but not on others. Adaptive risk management Approach to monitoring E&S compliance and changes to the project during implementation