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Written feedback on Phase 2 of the World Bank Safeguards Review
The Phase 2 Consultation period of the World Bank Safeguards Review is now closed. The documents below were submitted as formal feedback to the World Bank Safeguards Team between September 2014 and March 2015.
These submissions contain the concerns of civil society organizations, national governments, and the private sector on the draft Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) policy, originally released for consultation in July 2014. Some also raise issue with the Phase 2 consultation process. We have displayed some of the submissions here, organized by contributor and issue area. The full list can be found on the World Bank’s Safeguards Consultation website.
Phase 3 of the Safeguards Review will begin after the second draft of the ESF is released for public consultation, expected late June/early July 2015. The nature of this third round of consultations is not yet public knowledge.
Civil Society Statement on World Bank Safeguards from 360 endorsing organizations
Letters to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim
Letter to Jim Kim on draft ESF from Boston Common Asset Management and Calvert Investments
Letter to Jim Kim on behalf of twenty-eight Special Procedures mandate holders of the U.N. Human Rights Council
Letter from Bank on Human Rights and signatories regarding the safeguards consultation process
Letter on Child Rights and Safeguards from Bank Information Center (with 55 endorsing organizations)
Submissions from CSOs
CSO comments on overall draft ESF
Critiques and Recommendations on WB Safeguards from Egyptian CSOsComments on WB Safeguards from Ulu Foundation- Learning from the ADB
Oxfam Submission on Phase 2 of WB Safeguards Review
Joint Nordic CSO input on World Bank Safeguards
World Resource Institute comments on draft ESF
Transparency International’s Submission on World Bank Safeguards
Comments from Latin American and Caribbean CSOs on Draft ESF and WB Consultation Process
Comentarios de la Sociedad Civil de América Latina y el Caribe sobre el draft ESF y el proceso de consulta del Banco Mundial
Environmental and Social Assessment (ESS1)
Disability and World Bank Safeguards Campaign ESS1 Red-line EditsConservation International ESS1 Redline Edits
Labor (ESS2)
Statement by Global Unions to the 2014 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World BankClimate Change (ESS3)
Climate Change Model Policy for SafeguardsComments on the Climate and Resource Efficiency-Related Provisions of the Draft ESF
Sierra Club Proposed Redline Edits ESS3
Community Health and Safety (ESS4)
Population Action International Comments on ESS4Involuntary Resettlement (ESS5)
Joint Safeguards Submission on Resettlement and LandLand Rights and the New WB Safeguards_Case Studies by Inclusive Development International
Biodiversity (ESS6)
Safeguard Submission on Biodiversity, Forests and Forest-dependent PeoplesConservation International Redline Edits ESS6
Comments on ESF from US Federal Ministry of Environment
Indigenous Peoples (ESS7)
Recommendations from Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact FoundationStatement from Tanzanian Indigenous Peoples organizations on the proposed ESF (27 endorsing organizations)
Comments on Proposed ESF from Indian Law Resource Center
Information Disclosure and Stakeholder Engagement (ESS10)
BIC Submission on ESS10 on Information Disclosure and Stakeholder EngagementSubmission on ESS10 and Accountability
Child Rights
Bank Information Center Child Rights SubmissionBIC Child Rights Submission- Tata Mundra Case Study
BIC Child Rights Submission- MUTP Case Study
BIC Child Rights Submission- Malawi Water Project Case Study
Disability Rights
Redline edits of ESS1 Annex 1_Disability and World Bank Safeguards CampaignESS1 Proposal for an Annex 2 on Universal Accessibility and Inclusion Plan_Disability and World Bank Safeguards Campaign
Submission from International Disability Alliance and International Disability and Development Consortium
Gender and SOGI
Gender and SOGIE Joint SubmissionGender and SOGIE Model Policy
Gender Review and Recommendations on Proposed ESF from Gender Action
Submissions from National Governments
Comments and Recommendations from China on the Proposed New Safeguard Policies Brazilian Government Comments on the Environmental and Social Framework Policy Comments of the Government of India on the World Bank Consultation of the Safeguard Review Republic of Indonesia Response to WB Safeguard Policies
Comments from the Russian Executive Director’s Office EDS23
Nordic/Baltic Comments on Draft ESF
Ministry of Labor Tajikistan
Phase 2 Safeguards Consultation Materials for Civil Society
The materials below are intended to provide key information on the World Bank’s first draft of the Environmental and Social Framework policy as a whole, as well as several individual issues. We hope they proved useful during the Phase 2 safeguards consultation period.
CSO Materials from Phase 2 Safeguards of Review
Safeguards Consultation Background Packet
ESS1 – Environmental and Social Assessment
ESS2 – Labor
ESS3 – Climate Change
ESS5 – Land and Resettlement
ESS6 – Biodiversity
ESS7 – Indigenous Peoples
ESS10 – Information Disclosure and Stakeholder Engagement
Talking points on Child Rights
Talking points on Disability Rights
Talking points on Gender & SOGIE
Talking points on Gender
Talking points on Human Rights
Talking points on the Environmental and Social Policy (ESP)
What IEG Recommends about the Safeguard Reform – Facts and Myths
Download All Materials (Zipped folder)
For analysis of cost and value of Safeguards implementation see Does the World Bank Know the True Value of Safeguards?
For more resources on the Safeguard Review see BIC’s Safeguards Review page.
For official documents on the Consultation process see the World Bank Safeguards consultation page.
For a collection of media coverage and CSO reactions to the draft, see our Safeguards Reactions Roundup.