Environmental, Social and Economic Review Note (ESERN)
I. Project Overview
Identification | 9522 |
Project Title | Global Learning, Finance, and Partnerships project under TRI |
Managing Division | Ecosystem Division |
Type/Location | Global |
Region | Global |
List Countries | Global |
Project Description | Project Objective: Strengthen overall delivery of TRI by establishing and supporting structures and processes for coordination, monitoring, and adaptive management of the Program, while providing key supports to TRI country projects in the areas of policy identification and uptake, knowledge generation and dissemination, and mobilization of new/additional finance for FLR, to generate enhanced programmatic benefits and support the achievement of country FLR objectives |
Estimated duration of project: | 60 Months |
Estimated cost of the project : | GEF Grant: 3,519,725 Co-finance: 3,900,000 |
| Funding Source: | GEF |
II. Environmental Social and Economic Screening Determination
Summary of the Safeguard Risks Triggered
Safeguard Standard Triggered by the Project | Impact of Risk (1-5) | Probability of Risk (1-5) | Significance of Risk (L, M, H)* |
SS 1: Biodiversity, natural habitat and Sustainable Management of Living Resources | 1 | 1 | L |
SS 2: Resource Efficiency, Pollution Prevention and Management of Chemicals and Wastes | 1 | 1 | L |
SS 3: Safety of Dams | 1 | 1 | L |
SS 4: Involuntary resettlement | 1 | 1 | L |
SS 5: Indigenous peoples | 1 | 1 | L |
SS 6: Labor and working conditions | 1 | 1 | L |
SS 7: Cultural Heritage | 1 | 1 | L |
SS 8: Gender equity | 1 | 1 | L |
SS 9: Economic Sustainability | 1 | 1 | L |
Additional Safeguard questions for projects seeking GCF-funding (Section IV) | NA | NA | NA |
*Refer to the UNEP ESES Framework (Chapter 2) and the UNEP’s ESES Guidelines
ESE Screening Decision
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Development of ESE Review Note and Screening Decision
| ESERN Prepared by: | Name: IUCN GFCCP – Joshua Schneck / Marieta Sakalian | Date: |
| Conforms to ESES Framework | Name: | Date: |
| Accepted by Project Manager: | Name: | Date: |
Recommended further action from the Safeguard Advisor
The project under review is part of The Restoration Initiative (TRI) program that intends to make making a significant global contribution to restoring ecosystem functioning and improving livelihoods through the restoration of priority degraded and deforested landscapes. The program encompasses ten national child projects and one Global Child project which will be responsible for overall Program coordination to ensure coherence and promote integration of the different national projects, knowledge sharing and learning, mobilization of financing and development of partnerships. The national child projects are implemented by three different GEF agencies which also share responsibility for the Global Child (IUCN leading component 1 and 4).
While the implementation of the national child projects might involve environmental or social risks and/or trigger one or more Standards, the activities conceptualized under the Global Child project, and in particular under component 1 and 4 led by IUCN, are not expected to trigger any of these issues, mainly because the Global Child project does not include any field intervention.
The implementation of component 1 and 4, however, offers opportunities for promoting some of the ESMS principles and the objectives of ESMS Standards, in particular the principles on Rights-based Approach, Gender Equality and Protection of Vulnerable Groups and the Standard on Indigenous Peoples. More concretely, under component 1 which aims at enhancing coordination, monitoring, adaptive management, IUCN should seize opportunities for articulating environmental and social risk issues encountered in individual child projects and share good practices for addressing and mitigating such risks.
Under component 4 where IUCN will support national projects’ efforts to enhance in-country enabling environments for FLR, opportunities should be sought for highlighting the importance of having in place procedures for assessing and addressing social risks of FLR interventions and for promoting good practices on inclusive decision making and protecting the rights and needs of indigenous communities and vulnerable groups.
When coordinating and supporting the Program- and Project-level M&E system under component 1 IUCN should promote good practice of collecting gender disaggregated data and of monitoring achievements in gender mainstreaming at the level of the national child projects. This component also offers opportunities for sharing good practice among partner agencies on designing and implementing gender-sensitive FLR interventions.
Within component 4 which includes supporting national child projects in their effort to enhance in-country enabling environments for FLR, IUCN should seek opportunities for strengthening women’s rights and access to land and natural resources and for improving women representation in forest governance bodies.