Table : Safeguard Screening Results and Project Categorization
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Policy/Best Practice
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Triggered
(Yes/No)
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Justification
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Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Policy
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No
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This project has been classified as Category C, because it is unlikely to cause adverse environmental impacts.
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Protection of Natural Habitats Policy
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No
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This project aims at improving mangrove conservation in the ETPS region; therefore no major negative impacts to critical natural habitats are expected as a result of its implementation.
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Involuntary Resettlement Policy /
Process Framework for Restriction of Access to Resources
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Yes
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The second screening process conducted by the executing agency on August 27, 2014 determined that the project may introduce displacement measures or restrict local people access to resources that they have been traditionally using in the project area.
According to the Executing Agency "under the Component 3 of the project, which aims at implementing local conservation actions aligned with national and regional policies, we envision project activities to be centred around the development and updating of management plans and consequently implementation of activities developed within them. The management plans will be adapted on a site to site basis and thus affect access to natural resources in different ways in each site. For example we foresee that development or updating of management plans may restrict spatial and temporal access to some resources (e.g. limited fishing season, permanent or temporal no-take zones) with potentially negative consequences in terms of access for some communities in the short term. Nonetheless, the impacts of these activities will be mostly positive in the medium-to long-term including increased sustainability of ecosystem services (such as coastal protection, water quality). The project activities overall goal is to ensure medium to long term positive impacts outweigh the negative mostly short term one".
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Indigenous Peoples Policy
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Yes
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In Colombia, the project will take place in the Department of Valle del Cauca, which includes a total of 46 indigenous and black community reserves. The communities that will be directly impacted by this project are:
a) Black communities: High Anchicayá Community, Bazán Bocana Community, Córdoba and San Cipriano Community, middle and high Dagua river zones Community, Cajambre river Community, Calle Dagua Community; and
b) Indigenous communities: the Waunaan of the Guayacan Sant Reserve and the Dagua river Reserve, and the Embera of the Naya river Reserve.
The census of 2011 reports that the department of Buenaventura has a stable population of 369,753, of whom 189,892 are women.
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Pest Management Policy
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No
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It is not expected that this project will implement activities that require the use of pesticides or address issues of invasive alien species
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Physical Cultural Resources Policy
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No
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This project will not implement activities that will remove, alter or disturb physical cultural resources.
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Stakeholder Engagement
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Yes
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This project will include the participation of stakeholders at various levels, according to each of the project’s components. For component 1, the project has already engaged with regional level partners such as the CPPS and the UNESCO under an open-ended alliance to develop the Regional Mangrove Action Plan.
Also, through consolidating the support of the national GEF focal point for this project, the project is already engaging with the relevant national authorities such as the Ministries of Environment of each country which will support the implementation of all the components for the project.
To assess the feasibility of a trans-boundary protected mangrove area between Ecuador and Colombia, the project will engage with the relevant authorities dealing with foreign affairs and will engage with them during the PPG period.
For the implementation of the local conservation actions, the project will engage during the PPG period with a series of local communities, associations and NGOs that are present in the 5 potential mangrove sites that the project has currently identified.
Given our ongoing presence in the region, the project already has an extensive network of partners and local stakeholders and we plan to involve them during the PPG through a participatory process involving discussions, consultation and seeking their consent
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Gender mainstreaming
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Yes
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At all stages of the project, and especially during the PPG period, the project will ensure that gender considerations are addressed and that it fulfills with CI's commitment on gender issues. This will be most relevant in component 3 where field conservation actions are implemented along with local communities and associations. As the project works with these groups, the team will work to ensure that gender analyses are included and that the results of these analyses guide the decision and our strategies throughout the project phases.
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