July 2019
DOCUMENT SUMMARY
Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF)
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRY EAST KALIMANTAN PROVINCE
REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The East Kalimantan Emission Reduction Program (ERP) builds on the substantial commitments of the GoI and the Government of the Province of East Kalimantan to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The ER program will support a combination of enabling conditions and promotion of sustainable management practices that will directly address the underlying drivers of emissions resulting from sectoral activities including, timber plantations, estate crops, subsistence agriculture, aquaculture, and unsustainable logging practices. This program consists of five components, as follows: 1. Improving Forest and Land Governance; (2) Improving Forest Supervision and Administration; (3) Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation Within Licensed Areas; (4) Sustainable Alternatives for Communities; and (5) Project Management and Monitoring.
Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) has been prepared as a project operational document that provides guideline for assessing the potential impacts, preparing the environmental and social management plans and measures to minimize adverse environmental and social impacts under the ERP in East Kalimantan. ESMF in line with the World Bank Operational Policies in environmental and social management that are applicable for the ERP include: (i) Environmental Assessment, 4.01; (ii) Natural Habitats, OP/BP 4.04; (iii) Natural Habitats OP/BP 4.04; iv) Pest Management, OP/BP 4.09; (v) Indigenous Peoples, OP/BP 4.10;
(vi) Involuntary Resettlement, OP/BP 4.12; (vii) Forests, OP/BP 4.36.
Based on the assessment of potential environmental and social impacts on components 1 to 4 in Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment (SESA) document, and with reference to the applicable World Bank Operational Policies, this ESMF establishes the modalities and procedures to address and mitigate the potential adverse environmental and social impacts from the implementation of ERP activities through employing best practices. The ESMF procedures include: (i) ongoing consultations with relevant stakeholder groups; (ii) appropriate capacity building measures; (iii) environmental and social impact screening and assessment; iv) frameworks for formulation of environmental and social management plans associated with environmental codes of practices, environmental permitting, high conservation value studies, grievance mechanism, process framework, indigenous peoples, and physical cultural resources;
v) monitoring and reporting on implementation of the framework and safeguards through the existing systems.
This ESMF covers procedures for environmental and social management for the implementation and monitoring of activities of components 1 to 4 that includes negative list screening, preliminary screening of risks and impacts, environmental codes and practices, guideline for integrated pest management, HCV guideline, environmental permits and management and monitoring measures, FGRM, IPPF, RPF and PF.
