5.0 CRITERIA FOR SCREENING PROJECTS 21 5.1 Description of potential impacts and environmental significance 21 6.0 GUIDELINES FOR MITIGATION 28 7.0 INSTITUTIONAL INVOLVEMENT AND PROJECT APPROVAL NEEDS 34 7.1 Institutional requirements, capacity and needs 34 7.1.1 Ministerial involvement 34 7.1.2 Sierra Leone Environmental Protection Agency 35 7.1.3 Project Coordinating Unit 35 7.1.4 District Councils 35 7.1.5 Implementing Agencies 35 7.1.6 Community Structures 36 7.2 Capacity building requirements 36 7.3 Awareness Creation 36 8.0 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN AND MONITORING 38 8.1 Management Plan 38 8.2 Monitoring Indicators 39 8.3 Institutional Capacity Strengthening Programme 40 8.4 Summary of ESMF process 41 9.0 CONSULTATIONS, ESMF DISCLOSURE AND GRIEVANCE MECHANISM 42 9.1 Stakeholder consultation 42 9.2 ESMF Disclosure 42 9.3 Grievance redress mechanism 43 9.3.1 Grievance redress committee 44 9.3.2 Grievance redress procedure 45 9.3.3 Procedures for delivery of entitlements 45 9.3.4 Identification of vulnerable persons 46 9.3.5 Time frame 47 List of Tables Table 1: Regional areas, km 14 Table 2: Characteristics of river basins 15 3: Potential impacts from rehabilitation and provision of new feeder roads 22 Table 4: Potential impacts from provision of rural markets and storage infrastructure 24 Table 5: Potential impacts from use of improved agricultural technologies 25 Table 6: Potential impacts from provision of rural agro based processing facilities 26 7: Potential adverse social impacts/ issues from feeder roads construction 26 Table 8: Mitigation measures for feeder roads 29 9: Mitigation measures for market and storage facilities 30
5.0 CRITERIA FOR SCREENING PROJECTS 21 5.1 Description of potential impacts and environmental significance 21 6.0 GUIDELINES FOR MITIGATION 28 7.0 INSTITUTIONAL INVOLVEMENT AND PROJECT APPROVAL NEEDS 34 7.1 Institutional requirements, capacity and needs 34 7.1.1 Ministerial involvement 34 7.1.2 Sierra Leone Environmental Protection Agency 35 7.1.3 Project Coordinating Unit 35 7.1.4 District Councils 35 7.1.5 Implementing Agencies 35 7.1.6 Community Structures 36 7.2 Capacity building requirements 36 7.3 Awareness Creation 36 8.0 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN AND MONITORING 38 8.1 Management Plan 38 8.2 Monitoring Indicators 39 8.3 Institutional Capacity Strengthening Programme 40 8.4 Summary of ESMF process 41 9.0 CONSULTATIONS, ESMF DISCLOSURE AND GRIEVANCE MECHANISM 42 9.1 Stakeholder consultation 42 9.2 ESMF Disclosure 42 9.3 Grievance redress mechanism 43 9.3.1 Grievance redress committee 44 9.3.2 Grievance redress procedure 45 9.3.3 Procedures for delivery of entitlements 45 9.3.4 Identification of vulnerable persons 46 9.3.5 Time frame 47 List of Tables Table 1: Regional areas, km 14 Table 2: Characteristics of river basins 15 3: Potential impacts from rehabilitation and provision of new feeder roads 22 Table 4: Potential impacts from provision of rural markets and storage infrastructure 24 Table 5: Potential impacts from use of improved agricultural technologies 25 Table 6: Potential impacts from provision of rural agro based processing facilities 26 7: Potential adverse social impacts/ issues from feeder roads construction 26 Table 8: Mitigation measures for feeder roads 29 9: Mitigation measures for market and storage facilities 30