Language: English
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COUNTRY: ZIMBABWE
PROJECT: YOUTH AND WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN SUMMARY
Team Leader: Raymond Besong, Senior Rural Infrastructure Specialist
(OSHD.1)
Appraisal Team
Team Members:
 Amel Hamza, Principal Gender Specialist, SEOG/SARC
 Mose Mabe-Koofhethile, Principal Procurement Specialist
ORPF.1/SARC
 Singh Ashutosh, Procurement Consultant, ZimFund/ZWFO
 Joseph Byamugisha, Senior Financial Management Specialist,
SARC/ORPF.2
Sector Manager:
Justin Murara, OSHD.1
Sector Director:
Sunita Pitamber, OSHD
Regional Director: Kennedy Mbekeani, SARC
Resident Representative: Mary Monyau, ZWFO
12 August 2016
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (ESMP) SUMMARY
Project Title: Youth and Women Empowerment Project
Project Number: P-ZW-IE0-003
Country: Zimbabwe
Department: OSHD
Division: OSHD.1
Project Category: Category 2
Project Cost: UA 3.79 million (ADF Grant)
1. Introduction. The Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ), intends to economically empower youth
and women, particularly in rural areas, by setting up food (honey, horticulture and mopane worms)
value addition facilities in three districts; and an artisanal gold ore milling facility in one district.
The food processing facilities shall be set up in existing vocational training centers; and the
artisanal gold ore milling facility shall be set up in a designated business zone in the district. The
processing facilities involve the rehabilitation or extension of existing buildings to house the
facilities. The facilities targeted for rehabilitations/extensions/constructions are of small scale and
the total estimated cost of the works is USD 400,000.
The target population to benefit directly from the project will mainly be youth and women with
emphasis on the rural poor. The Project targets the women and youth in 5 of the 59 districts of the
country. The targeted districts are Beitbridge (mopane worms) Mutasa and Lupane (honey),
Guruve (artisanal gold ore milling); Mutasa and Marondera (horticulture); and The population of
the targeted districts, totalling 650,000 (50.7% female) is expected to benefit indirectly from the
project. A total of 5,000 youth and women located in the project geographic scope will benefit
from additional off-farm jobs to be created in the subsectors of food processing, and processing of
gold ore. 200 MSMEs in the targeted food value chains are expected to be reached with business
development services, appropriate technology and facilitating their access to credits and markets.
The value addition activities in horticulture processing is also expected to benefit the thousands of
women and youth involved in the growing of horticulture products and who currently suffer
significant post-harvest losses and low prices which are driven by lack of processing facilities
within their districts and poor access to markets. In addition, a significant proportion of the 150,000
women artisanal gold miners in the country who work in the targeted districts where the gold ore
processing centres will be set up, will benefit from increased incomes from their ore – at present,
due to the prevailing power relations, large-scale miners capture most of the benefits when they
process the ore of artisanal women miners, leaving them with just a small fraction of the gains.
2. Brief project description and key components. The overall development objective of the
project is to contribute towards to the improvement of livelihoods for youth and women through
the development of economic opportunities. It entails the rehabilitation/extension/construction of
food processing and artisanal gold ore milling units in a total of 5 rural districts in Zimbabwe. All
these activities will result in improved incomes, job creation for women and youth and overall
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economic empowerment of the target groups. The Youth and Women Empowerment Project
involves the components summarized in the Table 1:
Table 1: Project components
Components
Description
Component 1: Food Value Addition and Enterprise Development (UA2.57m)
 Set up 4 horticulture processing units as MSMEs in the
Districts of Mutasa and Marondera, within the existing
Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) – targeted horticulture
products include mangoes, guavas, oranges, tomatoes, bananas,
avocado pears, cabbages, lettuces, potatoes, carrots and beans;
 Provide technical skills in horticulture and honey processing
and marketing;
 Set up 2 Mopane worm processing units as MSMEs in the
Subcomponent 1.1:
District of Beitbridge within the existing Vocational Training
Support to
Centres (VTCs).
Horticulture and
 Set up 2 honey processing units as MSMEs in the Districts
Honey Value Chains
of Mutasa and Lupane within the existing Vocational Training
Development
Centres (VTCs).
 Create market linkages between stakeholders at various
levels of the value chains (producers/wholesalers/retailers)
 Identify new internal and external markets for processed
horticulture and honey products.
 Rehabilitation/Extension of existing VTCs and business
center sites to host food value addition units and milling service
centres
 Support start-ups and or expansion of 100 MSMEs in
targeted food value chains.
 Support the development of women in mining enterprises by
Subcomponent 1.2: setting up a women milling service centre in the District of
Support to Enterprise Guruve.
Development
 Facilitate access to finance for the 100 targeted value chain
MSMEs through linkages with Financial Institutions
 Develop guidance tools for integrating fragility-lens into
business management for women and youth entrepreneurs
 Strengthen gender mainstreaming in line Ministries with the
preparation and dissemination of guidance manuals;
 Conduct sensitization campaigns on gender related laws
revised to be aligned with the New Constitution (Marriage Act,
Child Abduction Act, Children’s Act, Married Persons
Component
2: Property Act, Customary Marriage Act, Customary Law and
Institutional Capacity Local Courts Act, Property and Inheritance Laws,
Strengthening (UA Administration of Estates Act and the Deceased Estates
0.65 million)
Succession Act, and Citizenship of Zimbabwe Act).
 Train 1,500 women in cross-border trade regimes and
regulations (SADC, COMESA) – 150 women per province;
 Establish platforms for youth information, career guidance
and networking to enable youth to meet, interact and share ideas
on entrepreneurship.
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Components
Description
 Conduct youth business development training on sustainable
business management; financial literacy; business ethics;
product marketing; business synergies; total quality
management.
 Organize National Youth Expo as a platform for youths to
showcase and market their products at a national level;
 Reproduce training module materials for VTCs in 10 core
disciplines
Component 3: Project
Project management support: This will finance coordination,
management support
monitoring and evaluation activities, reporting and audit.
(UA 0.57)
Component
Description
3. Major environmental and social impacts and climate change risk. Significant and long-term
impacts of the project are mainly positive. Positive impacts include increased incomes for the
target beneficiaries involved in the food value chain activities, improved nutrition, health and
education outcomes resulting from improved incomes; and reduced poverty and unemployment
amongst women and youth due to economic opportunities created in the value chains. At
rehabilitation/extension/ construction stage, positive impacts include increase in the transfer of
competences to the population related to the mobilization of temporary personnel; increase in
indirect multiplier effects on the local economy resulting from the acquisition of local materials
and services; increase in the indirect effect on the creation of jobs, resulting from the acquisition
of local materials and services; and improvement of the competitiveness of MSMEs, resulting from
the enterprise infrastructure constructed and entrepreneurship training provided. The Project will
also promote green technologies such as the use of solar energy in the drying of horticulture
products.
The rehabilitation/extension/construction of buildings in existing Vocational Training Centres
(VTCs) or in business centers, to house value addition equipment could have some reversible
negative environmental effects such as air pollution, noise, vibration, health and safety and waste
management; creation of inadequate expectations concerning the project; increase in crime rates
due to the opening of temporary vacancies; increase of infectious-contagious illnesses, due to the
opening of temporary vacancies; compacting the soil by handling vehicles and machinery; increase
of unemployment (in the demobilization phase), as a result of the loss of direct and indirect jobs.
These impacts, however, are site specific and can be mitigated through the implementation of a set
of measures outlined below.
As concerns climate change, adverse changes in weather patterns associated with climate change
such as droughts and floods have increased in frequency and magnitude in Zimbabwe. The country
has suffered from 4 major droughts in the last 20 years, including the 2015 El Niño, as well as
from dry spells at critical stages for crop development in recent years. Hence, climate resilience
shall be built into any activities to be carried out under the Project in accordance with the Bank’s
Climate Risk Management Policy. In this regard, the Project will use the various campaigns,
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envisaged, to promote the use of improved seed varieties that are high yielding, drought-resistant
and early maturing along with soil and water conservation measures such as rainwater harvesting
and drip irrigation to ensure optimal crop productivity and minimal postharvest losses. The
Extension Services of the Ministry of Agriculture will provide advisories to farmers, taking into
account (i) rainfall probability analysis; and (ii) design of optimal cropping systems and
management practices related to seasonal climate forecasts. Analysis of historical rainfall, data
from real-time observation and modern climate monitoring and seasonal climate impact outlooks
to provide farmers with guidelines for selection of suitable management options based on rainfall
behaviour and climate variability risks. The Project campaigns will encourage farmers to adopt
optimizing farm management practices (planting methods, cultivar selection: matching maturity
to expected rain duration, crop selection: matching average daily water requirements to average
seasonal rainfall patterns, optimization of plant populations, fertilizer application, weeding,
intercultural operations and harvesting based on seasonal rainfall behaviour and land allocation
under various crops depending on constraints). The Extension services will advise farmers to
adjust cropping practices to fit selected crops and targeted rainfall to improve productivity and
reduce postharvest losses.
4. Enhancement/mitigation measures and complementary initiatives. Impacts expected from
the project are mainly positive as the project aims to improve incomes of targeted beneficiaries
through the setting up of food value addition units in order to reduce post-harvest losses,
malnutrition, unemployment and poverty. Where negative impacts arise, mitigation will include:
Table 2: Activity/ Impact Mitigation/Management Responsibility
Activity
Impact
Mitigation/
Management
Rehabilitation/Extension/Construction Phase
 Minimal and controlled
vegetation clearing;
 Avoidance of clearing during
wet season;
Increased invasion of Re-vegetation of cleared areas
Clearing
alien species
vegetation
as soon as feasible;
 Minimize vegetation
disturbance by constant
monitoring and removal of
alien species
 Use of erosion control
measures on sloping ground to
prevent the development of rills
and gullies
 work to be undertaken during
Digging or minor
Soil erosion
dry season
excavations
 Control storm water run-off
and soil erosion
 Limit the circulation of heavy
machinery to minimal areas
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Responsibility for
implementation
Responsibility
for Monitoring
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Activity
Impact
Increase in ambient
dust
Pollution or
sedimentation of water
courses down stream
Storage of fuel
chemicals and oil
for rehabilitation /
construction
equipment
Soil pollution and
water contamination
Noise and air pollution
from trucks
Trucking of
construction
materials into
sites and
construction
waste to disposal
sites
Risk of accidents and
injuries to workers
Exhaust emissions
Mitigation/
Management
 Plan work in sections to avoid
opening up areas that are left
open
 Wetting areas but taking into
consideration erosion control
measures
 Stopping the digging and
excavation on days when the
wind speed is above 20km/hour
 Dig small areas and cover and
compact immediately after
work is complete
 Bunding of all fuels,
chemicals and oil storage areas
to avoid contamination from
spillages
 Development and
implementation of an
emergency procedure to
minimize the risk of
contamination
 Handling of all chemicals in
accordance with manufacturers
safety instructions
 In the event of significant
spills, conducting root cause
analysis and
 Embarking on remedial
measures such as containment,
removal or in-situ remediation
where possible.
Development of a traffic
management plan with
specified routes that are less
likely to create a nuisance and
chaos for the communities
 Complying with work place
legal requirements
 Provision of Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE)
 Employment of competent
work force
 Instituting safety drills,
disaster preparedness and
management programmes
Using of functional vehicles
and planting of trees to offset
the emissions.
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Responsibility for
implementation
Responsibility
for Monitoring
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Activity
Rehabilitation/
Extension /
Construction of
building
operations
General
Rehabilitation/
Extension /
Construction
operations
Removal of
dilapidated
building fixtures
during
rehabilitation
operations
Impact
Fair treatment of
employees, workermanagement
relationships the
prevention of
unacceptable forms of
labour such as child
and forced labour
Community
dissatisfaction
Waste generation
Dust emissions
Mitigation/
Management
 Develop a workplace Health
and Safety Plan that outlines
how occupational health and
safety (OHS) will be addressed
during the rehabilitation project
 Manage and mitigate against
accidents and injuries to
workers
 Control hazards and risks
exposed to workers and
community members including
odours and air pollution,
mosquito breeding sites,
invasive aquatic communities
 Development of a community
Health and Safety Plan that
outlines how project-related
health and safety risks to local
communities will be addressed.
 Development of an
emergency response and
communication plan.
 Develop a public consultation
and engagement program that
outlines engagement with
stakeholders throughout the
rehabilitation and the entire
lifecycle of the project and how
the community will be given
opportunities to express their
concerns about the project, and
how it will continue to ensure
such opportunities
 Develop a Waste
Management Plan that
describes the principles of
waste management and conduct
re-use studies to ensure
reduction of pollution levels
 Where the community is
closer, activities should be
carried out when it is likely to
cause less odour in terms of
time of day and wind direction
Spraying with water
Sensitization of communities
on health and HIV/AIDs
awareness
Post-Rehabilitation/Extension/Construction Phase
Recruitment of
temporary works
HIV/AIDS infections
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Responsibility for
implementation
Responsibility
for Monitoring
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
NGOs/Contractor/
Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Contractor/ Project
Management Unit
(PMU) / Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
Contractor /
Consultant
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA) /
Executing
Agency
NGOs
PMU /
Consultant
Activity
Impact
Waste generation from
food processing
facilities
Post-works
operations
Waste generation from
artisanal gold ore
milling facilities
Mitigation/
Management
 Develop a Waste
Management Plan that
describes the procedures of
waste management and
recycling to reduce the amount
of waste and ensure the safe
disposal of wastes
 Develop a Waste
Management Plan that
describes the procedure of
waste management and ensures
wastes from the processes are
safely disposed of.
Responsibility for
implementation
Responsibility
for Monitoring
Project
Management Unit
(PMU)
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA
Project
Management Unit
(PMU)
Environmental
Management
Agency (EMA
Enhancement measures proposed under the project include: proactive Gender mainstreaming into
the project, focusing on the employment opportunities to women, members of the vulnerable
groups and youth in the area; inclusion of women and representatives of vulnerable groups in
important stakeholder meetings to determine their needs and wants as well as potential
improvements as the project progresses; construction of sanitation facilities within the value
addition infrastructure, to improve women’s (especially girls) hygiene during menstruation as part
of the project activities; and the Executing Agency and other stakeholders i.e. Standards
Association of Zimbabwe, Ministry of Health and NGOs, to sensitize communities about hygienic
practices standards for handling food value addition operations and promote proper sanitation
practices among communities. These enhancement measures are further reflected in the table
below.
Table 3: Enhancement/Mitigation Measures
Positive Impacts
Enhancement Measures
Give employment priority, where possible, to
local people employment (men and women)
Creation of temporary employment to the
during rehabilitation/extension/ construction
local people during construction
phase
Give preference to getting service from the
local inputs (food, basic materials, etc.);
Increased income generation to local
Create enabling environment for food vendors
people, especially women and youth by
through construction of temporary shelters
selling food stuffs to construction workers
with water supply and sanitary facilities.
Increased income for community members Put in place adequate management systems in
place to ensure facilities are sustainably
benefiting from the services provided by
the processing facilities set up and for those managed to ensure continues service
provision
employed in the facilities
Effectively manage harvesting and processing
Reduced post-harvest losses in the targeted
activities and capacities to minimize losses of
communities
produce waiting to be processed
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Conduct sensitization campaigns on nutrition
to ensure food with the right nutrients is given
to children
Reduced child malnutrition resulting from
increased household incomes
5. Environmental and social monitoring program Monitoring includes monitoring
implementation of the proposed mitigation measures to assess their efficiencies and development
of alternative or supplementary mitigation measures if the expected results are not reached.
Contractors will be responsible for implementing the mitigation and improvement measures
contained in the ESMP. To ensure social and environmental sustainability of the project, the
Project Management Unit (PMU) through its Consultant Environmentalist, will be responsible for
monitoring all the identified potential impacts and ensuring that the proposed mitigation measures
are implemented. The PMU will compile half-yearly environmental and social monitoring reports
concerning implementation of measures adopted within the framework of the ESMP and the
environmental and social problems encountered. The PMU has ongoing responsibility for
monitoring the effective management of the food and gold ore processing facilities to ensure
environmental and social sustainability measures continue being applied during the operation of
the facilities. The detailed E&S monitoring programme is shown on Table 4:
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Table 4: Detailed E&S monitoring programme
Monitoring
Parameter
Monitoring
Location
Measurement Unit
All rehabilitation/
Soil erosion and
extension
/ Visual inspection
sedimentation
construction sites
All rehabilitation/
extension
/
Dust and exhaust construction sites;
Visual inspection
and
nearest
fumes emissions
residents
outside
site boundaries
All rehabilitation/
extension
/
construction sites
Roads leading to
Traffic flow and sites and access
roads around the
public mobility
sites
At rehabilitation/
extension
/
Noise reduction
construction sites
and
fuel
Ground
and Oil
on
surface
water spillages
construction sites
pollution
Construction
related accidents
Target Level /
Standard
No
affected
vegetation growth
and development of
dongas and gullies
No complaints from
local
residents
regarding
dust
pollution;
contractors workers
wear dust protection
gear; and no visible
black smoke being
emitted
from
construction
equipment
Site risk assessment
reports
No incidents occur
Accident reports
Monitoring
Frequency
Entire
duration
project
Responsibility for
Monitoring
Site Engineer /
Consultant
Environmentalist
Daily
Site Engineer
Monthly
Consultant
Environmentalist
Daily
Site Engineer
Visual inspection
No
complaints
public Entire construction
Site Engineer
phase
Complaints
No
complaints
public
Visual and odour
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Site Engineer /
Consultant
Environmentalist
Site Engineer /
Entire construction
Consultant
phase
Environmentalist
Daily
Monitoring
Parameter
Health and Safety
Odour nuisance
Monitoring
Location
All rehabilitation/
extension
/
construction sites
Food
processing
and gold ore milling
units
Target Level /
Standard
Measurement Unit
Safety, Health, and
Site SHE
Environmental
conformity
(SHE) files
Complaints
from No
nearby residents
complaints
Visual,
Toxic wastewater Gold ore milling
Odour,
units
discharges
Quality tests
Monitoring
Frequency
Responsibility for
Monitoring
Site Engineer /
files Entire construction
Consultant
phase
Environmentalist
public During operation of EMA/ Executing
processing units
Agency / PMU
No
reported
contamination
or
deaths of human, During operation of EMA/ Executing
animal and birdlife; processing units
Agency / PMU
No
unpleasant
smells
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6. Public consultations and disclosure requirements The ESMP will be availed to the relevant
communities and additional impacts identified will be incorporated into the document. While
public consultations were not conducted due to the localization and small-scale of the project and
the fact that most of the rehabilitation/extensions/constructions shall take place in existing facilities
with little negative impact on the surrounding communities, the AfDB project appraisal team held
meetings with a number of stakeholders including resident associations, NGOs and business
associations. To solicit their inputs to improve the sustainability of the Project, consultations were
held with the following NGOs/institutions/associations: the National Association of Youth
Organizations – NAYO; the DVV/ VHS International (German Adult Education International) and
the Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network of Zimbabwe; Young Voices Network;
Zimbabwe Women’s Bureau; Self Help Development Foundation; and Jekesa Pfungwa
Vulingqondo. The ESMP summary will be posted on the AfDB website and made available to the
AfDB Board 30 days prior to project submission. Specific consultative issues and respective actors
are shown in Table 5.
Table 5: Specific Consultative Issues and Respective Actors
Mitigation/
Stakeholders to be
Enhancement
consulted
Measures
Enhancement Measures
District
councils,
Proactive
gender
Gender
pressure
mainstreaming
groups, NGOs
Inclusion of women
and representatives
District
councils,
of vulnerable groups
Gender
pressure
in
important
groups, NGOs
stakeholder
meetings
Sensitize
communities
on District councils /
hygiene
practices concerned
particularly in food communities / NGOs
processing
Mitigation Measures
Ensure
that
vegetation is cleared
and excavations are
done as designed to EMA, PMU
avoid unwarranted
clearance
of
vegetation
Purpose of
Consultations
Time/Frequency of
Consultations
To
avoid
social
conflict that may
During
project
affect the proper
implementation
implementation of the
project
During project and
ESMP
implementation
To
avoid
minimize
unwarranted
environmental
degradation
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and
During
the
rehabilitation/
extension/
construction phase
Rehabilitate affected
land by tilling the
soils to facilitate
natural regeneration
of vegetation
Siting the extensions
/ constructions and
access roads in areas
with
as
little
vegetation
as
possible
Minimize
the
number and length
of access roads and
use existing roads or
tracks as much as
possible
Ensure
that
construction
vehicles and plant
i.e.
tippers,
excavators,
compactors etc. use
only
designated
access roads to avoid
degradation of soils
outside designated
zones
Sprinkle water on
designated
earth
access roads and
construction sites to
minimize
dust
emissions
Sensitization
of
communities
on
health, hygiene and
HIV/AIDs
awareness
EMA, PMU
To avoid
accidents
complaints
human During project and
and ESMP
implementation
EMA,
councils,
owners
District
Property To
avoid
and
minimize
unwarranted
environmental
degradation
&
minimize
resident
conflicts
District councils,
To avoid grievances
and degradation of
existing
road
infrastructure.
To
District
councils,
ensure proper and
affected communities
timely movement of
public
transport
system and public
mobility
During
the
rehabilitation/
extension/
construction phase
In all phases of
Project and ESMP
implementation
To avoid complaints
District
councils,
from
nearby
affected communities
communities
District
councils, To
control
affected communities, incidence
school health clubs
HIV/AIDS
the
of
Mitigation/Enhancement
7. Institutional arrangements and capacity building requirements. The Zimbabwe
Environmental Management Agency (EMA) and the PMU through its Consultant
Environmentalist shall be responsible monitoring of environmental and social management
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activities under the Project. The contractors shall be responsible for implementing the measures
directly related to the works, while NGOs shall be involved in the social sensitization and
community awareness raising campaigns. Though the PMU will have overall responsibility to
ensure that all components of the project comply with the ESMP and will compile and submit an
annual environmental monitoring and audit report to the Bank, some external support –
accommodated in the project scope– will be required in the form of outsourcing for a Consultant
to specifically manage the requirements of the ESMP on behalf of the PMU. The Consultant will
be expected to capacitate to collaborate with the site engineer to monitor the implementation of
the ESMP. The Consultant Environmentalist and the staff within the PMU responsible for Social
issues shall work closely with EMA until project completion.
The institutional arrangements for the implementation of the EMSP are highlighted in the
following Table 6.
Table 6: Institutional Arrangements for the Implementation of the EMSP
Organization
Designation
Responsibility
 To provide financial support to the project and ESMP
 To provide technical and supervisory support
Donor/Funder
AfDB
 To review environmental and social impacts report
regularly

To
oversee
and
assist
the
Contractor
 Environmental experts in ESMP Implementation during
construction
Executing Agency Recipient / Project
 To ensure the effective implementation of ESMP by
Implementers
/ PMU
putting in place monitoring and evaluation programs for
ESMP
 Provide strategic, policy and operational guidance
To implement specific tasks stipulated in the main ESMP
Contractor
Contractor
during Construction
 Coordinates implementation of ESMP
 Implementation of mitigation Plan
 Monitors mitigation plan and health safety management
Site
Engineer
plan (implementation of monitoring plan)
Supervisor
(Consultant)
 Provides progress report of implementation of ESMP to
Steering Committee and EMA
 Oversee the inter-institutional coordination for
environmental mitigation, monitoring and supervision
 Supports implementation of mitigation Plan through
regular monitoring
 Mobilization of communities on gender and HIV/AIDS
sensitization activities
Local Government
District Council
 Supports monitoring of the mitigation plan and health
and safety management plan
 To ensure that the project and the contractor do not violate
all public policies/ rules and regulation
Supervisory
and  Liaison with the contractor and PMU in the
Local Community
advisory roles
implementation of ESMP
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EMA
 Provide specific and localized advise on waste disposal
 To ensure PMU and Contractors adhere to the existing
environmental policy requirement in the course of Project
Supervisory
and
and ESMP implementation
advisory roles
 To conduct planned and unplanned site inspection so as
to enforce environmental policy compliance.
8. Estimated costs. With the exception of the community hygiene, HIV/AIDS and gender
awareness and outreach activities, all mitigation measures identified in the ESMP form part of the
construction activities of the project and are inherently mainstreamed in these activities. The costs
of the community hygiene, HIV/AIDS and gender awareness and outreach activities are estimated
at USD 50,000. Table 7 shows the project ESMP costs and timelines.
Table 7: Project ESMP Costs and Timelines
Activity
Tasks
Community
Raise awareness on hygiene,
awareness
HIV/AIDS and gender equality
Managing sloping ground to
prevent the development of rills
and gullies, working during dry
Erosion control season; limiting the circulation
measures
of heavy machinery to minimal
areas and working in sections to
avoid having areas that are left
open
Wetting areas but taking into
consideration erosion control
measures; stopping the digging
and excavation on days when
Dust
control
the wind speed is above 20
measures
km/hour and digging small
areas and covering and compact
immediately after work is
complete
 Complying with work place
legal requirements
 Provision of Protective
Occupational
professional equipment
health and safety
 Employment of competent
management
work force
measures
 Instituting Safety drills,
disaster preparedness and
 Management programmes
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Timeline
Project duration
Cost Estimate
USD 50,000
During
Part of the contractor
construction
/
general works costs
Extension works
During
Part of the contractor
construction
/
general works costs
Extension works
During
Part of the contractor
construction
/
general works costs
Extension works
Climate change
management
measures
Waste
management
measures
Nuisance
management
measures
During
Use of functional equipment
construction
/
Extension works
Identifying waste materials and During
following the waste hierarchy construction
/
in getting rid of the waste
Extension works
During
Minimizing unpleasant odours
construction
/
from materials and wastes.
Extension works
Part of the contractor
general works costs
Part of the contractor
general works costs
Part of the contractor
general works costs
9. Implementation schedule and reporting The Project Management Unit (PMU) of this project
shall be responsible for overseeing the implementation of the ESMP and in accordance with the
monitoring plan and reporting schedules. It is envisaged that the PMU will engage an independent
consultant environmentalist to carry out environmental compliance monitoring. The Contractor
shall be responsible for implementation of environmental and social mitigation measures under
the supervision of the site engineer / PMU and consultant environmentalist. This is to ensure that
technical and environmental clauses are followed and well implemented by the Contractor. All
mitigation and enhancement measures should be implemented whenever necessary in all phases
of the project. As mentioned earlier, progress on the implementation of the ESMP will be included
in the overall periodic progress reports, midterm review and monitoring and evaluation reports of
the project that is to be sent to EMA and the AfDB. The Project will be implemented in accordance
with the agreements between financier (AfDB), client and contractor. However, in terms of the
proposed ESMP, the Contractor will have to prepare quarterly compliance reports. The PMU
through consultant environmentalist will also prepare quarterly reports on the status of the
implementation of proposed ESMP by the contractor, and propose appropriate measures for
improvement. Other measures which have been included in this ESMP will need separate
implementation and reporting due to the fact that they will not be implemented by the contractor
but by NGOs and other partners.
10. Conclusion It is expected that the project contribute to job creation, increased incomes,
improved health and nutrition and poverty reduction in the targeted districts. The negative impacts
of the project can all be managed as no irreversible or serious adverse impacts are anticipated
provided all proposed mitigation measures are implemented, that the contractor operates in a
diligent manner and the quality of wastewater discharges during the operation phase of the
facilities are effectively managed and monitored by the EMA. For sustainability of the Project,
management activities must be efficiently and effectively implemented, in collaboration with the
expert stakeholder institutions. The committees involved in the project at various levels of
implementation should be gender balanced. The PMU and the respective key stakeholders are
expected to ensure that employment opportunities to be created by the project target mainly women
and youth groups, in an endeavor to eliminate gender imbalances prevailing in the proposed project
districts. Where appropriate, employment of local people from the project area must be prioritized
to encourage community ownership and sustainability of the project. In general, the project has
been found to be environmentally, socially and economically beneficial and is expected to
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contribute towards poverty alleviation. Although the project has been found to have positive
impacts there are also some adverse (negative) impacts. In this regard, mitigation measures have
been proposed for negative impacts and enhancement measures for positive impacts. The
Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) has been developed to implement the
proposed mitigation and enhancement measures. Furthermore, the Environmental and Social
Monitoring Plan has been incorporated into the ESMP to ensure that the proposed mitigation
measures are complied with during project implementation. It is expected therefore that the PMU
and all the key stakeholders will combine their efforts to ensure effective and efficient
implementation of this ESMP for the sustainability of the project.
11. References and contacts
African Development Bank
Raymond Besong, Senior Rural Infrastructure Engineer, Human Development Department,
African Development Bank, Southern Africa Resource Centre, Pretoria, South Africa
Email: [email protected] Tel: +27 12 003 6900 Ext. 8441
Project Management Unit
Naome Chimbetete, Project Coordinator.
Email: [email protected]
Ministry of Finance
Harare, Zimbabwe
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