implementation Approach to implementing the stakeholder agents and to help them understand and implement the new support ESF in situations with safeguards framework. capacity constraints, e.g., FCS, small states and emergency situations Disclosure Timing of the preparation and Q: The participants asked many times about the validation process of the new disclosure of specific safeguards standards, including more details on the standards, how the new environmental and social policies will be validated, what the process of validation would be, and what impact assessment documents the timeline is for these policies to be implemented. (related to ESS1 and ESS10) Implementation of Bank internal capacity the ESF building, resourcing, and behavioral change in order to successfully implement the ESF Ways of reaching mutual understanding between Borrower and Bank on issues of difficult interpretation Other issues C: Participants thought the ESF to be generally good and an improvement of previous measures. Q: The validation process of these new safeguards policies was not clear to the participants. On number of occasions they were asking for more details on the standards, an explanation of how the new policies will be validated, what the process of validation would be, and what the timeline is for these policies to be implemented. Q: If a project is prepared or approved before the new standards become valid, should the safeguards measures be redone according to the ESF (basically if the new safeguards policies will be retroactive)? No C: World Bank was asked many times to provide: (i) financial support; (ii) training; and (iii) general help and assistance to strengthen capacities of local stakeholders and to help them better understand and implement the new safeguards framework. C: Can projects receive IDA funds to prepare the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment before the launch of the project?
implementation support Approach to implementing the ESF in situations with capacity constraints, e.g., FCS, small states and emergency situations stakeholder agents and to help them understand and implement the new safeguards framework. Disclosure Timing of the preparation and disclosure of specific environmental and social impact assessment documents (related to ESS1 and ESS10) Q: The participants asked many times about the validation process of the new safeguards standards, including more details on the standards, how the new policies will be validated, what the process of validation would be, and what the timeline is for these policies to be implemented. Implementation of the ESF Bank internal capacity building, resourcing, and behavioral change in order to successfully implement the ESF Ways of reaching mutual understanding between Borrower and Bank on issues of difficult interpretation Other issues C: Participants thought the ESF to be generally good and an improvement of previous measures. Q: The validation process of these new safeguards policies was not clear to the participants. On number of occasions they were asking for more details on the standards, an explanation of how the new policies will be validated, what the process of validation would be, and what the timeline is for these policies to be implemented. Q: If a project is prepared or approved before the new standards become valid, should the safeguards measures be redone according to the ESF (basically if the new safeguards policies will be retroactive)? No C: World Bank was asked many times to provide: (i) financial support; (ii) training; and (iii) general help and assistance to strengthen capacities of local stakeholders and to help them better understand and implement the new safeguards framework. C: Can projects receive IDA funds to prepare the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment before the launch of the project?
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