World Bank Safeguard Policies Overview

1. World Bank Safeguard PoliciesOverview Disabilities & Safeguards Training Jean-Roger Mercier (ESDQC) July 11, 2006

2. Table of Contents • Safeguards, their objectives and application • Most relevant safeguard policies for mainstreaming disabilities • Safeguards processing and entry points • Conclusion

3. Disabilities and safeguards • Safeguards, their objectives and application

4. Types of Operations Under the new Development Policy Lending (DPL – OP 8.60) Policy • Macroeconomic Reforms • Sectoral Reforms • PRSC Investment Lending, including • SWAPs and other sectoral investments • Financial Intermediaries • Community Driven Development Approach • Social Development • Guarantees SEA/CEA Safeguards

5. Objectives of Safeguard Policies • Ensure that Environmental and Social issues are evaluated in decision making; • Reduce and manage project technical Risks; • Provide a mechanism for Consultation and Disclosure of Information;

6. Project Cycle Safeguard Policies • Environmental Policies • OP 4.01 Environmental • Assessment • OP 4.04 Natural Habitats • OP 4.09 Pest Management • OP 4.11 Cultural Property • OP 4.36 Forests • OP 4.37 Safety of Dams • Legal Policies • OP 7.50 International Waterways • OP 7.60 Disputed Areas • Social Policies • OP 4.10 Indigenous Peoples • OP 4.12 Involuntary Resettlement Information Disclosure Handbook on Public Disclosure

7. EA Indig. Reset. Cult. Nat. Hab.

8. In a very small nutshell • Safeguards apply to all investment lending, whichever the funding source is as long as it is Bank-managed; • The Borrower is responsible for applying the policies to each Bank loan/credit. Bank must conduct due diligence. • Within the Bank, Safeguard Policies Review and Clearance is a decentralized regional function (down to the task team for low- and medium-risk projects) with a centralized coordination/dispute resolution mechanism (QACU)

9. Disabilities: Most relevant Safeguards • Environmental Assessment • Involuntary Resettlement • Indigenous Peoples • Disclosure and Consultation

10. EA Only: Categories • A: most risky in terms of potentially negative environmental impacts (10%) • B: medium risk (40% of pipeline) • C: very little or no risk (50%) • FI: limited to true intermediaries (few) Screening for EA category done jointly TT- Safeguards based on nature, size and location of the project as a whole. Scoping of issues is ad hoc.

11. Involuntary Resettlement • Triggered in projects implying: • Physical Relocation • Economic Loss of Means of Livelihood • Loss of Access to “Wild” Natural Resources • Physical relocation should be done with appropriate means and acceptable to Project Affected People (PAPs) • Consultation with PAPs during preparation and implementation

12. Indigenous Peoples (IPs) • The Policy has just been converted to the OP/BP format (more than 7 years in the making) • Affects about 250 m. IPs around the world (major concentrations: SAR, EAP, LCR) • IPs should be treated with due respect and dignity, in a culturally sensitive way and projects affecting IPs should proceed on the basis of IPs’ free, prior and informed consultation • Likely to result in increased voice to disabled IPs

13. Disabilities and Safeguards • Safeguards Entry Points • Indigenous Peoples with disabilities • Resettlement of disabled and elderly people • Consultation involving disabled peoples’ representatives • Ibid with public disclosure • Interpretations of EA, including analysis of universal design options

14. ISDS at PCN-Level – Key Screening • Triggering of the individual SPs: check the matrix in the Red Binder • Screening is agreed upon mutually between the Task Team and the Safeguards (for any investment project) • Dispute resolution is designed to be fast and effective: QACU rules • Disabilities issues should be upfront

15. Your Life Safeguarders • Regions: • AFR Warren Waters • EAP Glenn Morgan • ECA Ron Hoffer • LCR Reidar Kvam • MNA Sherif Arif • SAR Eric Brusberg • QACU (corporate) Stephen F. Lintner

16. Content of the red Binder • Verbatim of the 10 Safeguard Policies and of the Disclosure Policy • Matrix for each safeguard policy showing objectives and triggers • CD-ROM with all the policies, including translations into 6 major languages, reports, proceedings from workshops and links to other major resources • Mouse Pad with a summary of the policies • Brochures on QACU and the Inspection Panel

17. Disabilities and Safeguards • Conclusion

18. What Safeguards can do for disabilities • Safeguards have already been used to pilot and later mainstream innovations (public consultation, environmental protection clauses,…..) • Safeguards as reminders of national laws • Scoping of safeguards work can include universal design • Disabilities concerns are logical in involuntary resettlement and indigenous peoples policies • Some safeguard topics, e.g. road safety, help prevent further disabilities.

19. What Safeguards cannot do for disabilities • Create a new disabilities policy • Extend disabilities concerns beyond project scope if there is no national requirement/legislation • Create stand-alone disabilities access projects (although this might be a good route to explore)

20. Development Policy Lending: an opportunity for disabilities? • DPL finances policy and/or institutional reforms, sectoral or macroeconomic • Many reforms can be disabilities-neutral or disabilities-positive, depending on (i) the knowledge of policy makers and (ii) the opportunity for the voices of the disabled to be heard • Key sectors: urban, transport, health, education

21. After-Training Maintenance • Safeguards Training Program: If it’s Wednesday, then it’s Safeguards Training • Type “safeguard” in your URL or tell your clients to go to www.worldbank.org/safeguards • Call Help Desk x 32001 or write to safeguards@worldbank.org • We’re from QACU and we’re here to help you