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LAO PSEMD/PMUPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
PEACE INDEPENDENCE DEMOCRACY UNITY PROSPERITY
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Ministry of Energy and Mines
Department of Electricity No: ...................../
Vientiane Capital, Date…………
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT (REP II)
DEPARTMENT OF PONENT
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL SAFEGUARD FRAMEWORK
(ESSF)
June 2009
Contents
I. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………..…4
II. SAFEGUARD POLICIES STATEMENT…………...……………………………………5
III. POTENTIAL IMPACTS AND MITIGATION OF REP II 7
IV. ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL SAFEGUARD SCREENING 8
V. ENVIORNMENTAL ASPECTS 13
VI. SOCIAL ASPECTS 14
Table 1. Screening Process for Each Subproject 10
Figure 1. Key Steps of Safeguard management for REP II 12
Annex 1: Resettlement Policy Framework 13
Annex 2: Ethnic Group Development Frameworks 24
Annex 3: Environmental Management Framework…………………………………………………...29
Abbreviation
PDEM Province Department of Energy and Mines
DOE Department of Electricity
ECI Electrical Installation and pany
EDL Electricite Du Laos
EGDF Ethnic Groups Development Frameworks
EIA Environmental Impact Assessment
SEMD Social and Environmental Management Division
EMP Environmental Management Plan
ESA Environmentally Sensitive Areas
ESIA Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
ESSF Environment and Social Safeguard Frameworks
GoL Government of Lao PDR
IEE Initial Environmental Examination
NGO Non-anisation
PMU Project Management Unit
REP I Rural Electrification Project Phase 1
REP II Rural Electrification Project Phase 2
RP Resettlement Plan
RPF Resettlement Policy Frameworks
SEMD Social and Environment Management Division
SOM Safeguard Operation Manual
UXO Unexplosed Ordinance
WREA Water Resources and Environment Administration
WB World Bank
LAO PDR:
SECOND RURAL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT (REP II)
ponent
Environment and Social Safeguard Framework
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Background. The Government of Lao PDR (GOL) has been implementi