| Screening |
OP 4.0 1 states the need for environmental screening. Projects are characterized according to three categories. |
Environmental Impact Assessment Guideline Series 1 (2003). |
Projects are screened, project types and the level of environmental impacts assessment are defined in both the Ethiopian and the World Bank systems. |
| • Category A: projects having significant adverse environmental impacts that are sensitive, diverse and unprecedented. An Environmental Impact Assessment study is required to address potential adverse impacts. |
Environmental Impact Assessment Proclamation No. 299/2002 |
| • No project shall be implemented without an Environmental Impact Assessment (Article 1, Proc. No. 299/2002). |
| • Any project which fall in any category listed in any directive issues pursuant to Proc. No. 299/2002 shall be subject to |
| • Category B: projects where the impacts on social or environmental components are less adverse than Category A projects. The impacts are |
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mitigatory measures can
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than Category A projects. An Environmental and Social impact assessment is required to address or compensate adverse impacts.
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• Schedule 1: projects that require full environmental and social impact assessment to eliminate, minimize and mitigate adverse impacts. |
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• Category C: project that have minimal or no adverse environmental impacts. No further environmental action is required beyond screening. |
• Schedule 2: project that require a preliminary environmental impact study. |
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• Schedule 3: projects that may not require environmental impact assessment study. |
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| Environmental and Social safeguard document requirements |
• ESIA with ESMP report is required for Category A projects |
• A full Environmental impact assessment is required for Schedule 1 projects. |
Reports, based on the types of the projects, are required in both systems. |
| • ESIA with ESMP, but not as detailed as for Category A, is required for Category B projects |
• A preliminary (not as detailed as for Schedule 1 projects) environmental impact assessment report is required for Schedule 2 projects. |
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| • No document is required for Category C projects. |
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| • No document is required for Schedule 3 projects beyond a screening. |
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| Conservation of Natural Habitats |
OP 4.0 1: |
• Environmental policy |
Conservation of natural habitats to foster a longterm sustainable development is required in both systems. |
| • OP 4.04 is essential for a |
of Ethiopia |
| long-term sustainable development. This OP focuses on the protection, conservation and rehabilitation of natural habitats and the integrity of their functions. |
• National policy on Biodiversity conservation and Research |
| The national policy, laws support sustainable development and protection of natural forest resources |
| Conservation of forests and their associated resources |
OP 4.36 |
Forest Development, Conservation and Utilization Proc. no. 1 065/20 1 8 |
Conservation of natural habitats is promoted in both systems |
| • This OP promotes management, conservation and |
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sustainable development of forest ecosystems |
• This law upholds the conservation of forests and their associated natural resources to foster sustainable development |
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| Conservation and protection of cultural heritages and resources |
OP 4.11 |
Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Proclamation No. 209/1 992) |
Conservation and protection of physical cultural resources are promoted and considered during environmental and social impact assessment in both systems |
| • OP 4.11 states that Physical Cultural Resources shall be assessed in the project cycle to avoid minimize adverse impacts such as demolition, flooding, movement of earth and design mitigation measures |
| Classification of Cultural Heritage into National and Regional Cultural Heritages (Proclamation No. 839/2006) |
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| • Promotes the conservation and protection of cultural heritage |
| Compensation for adversely impacted assets and promotion of ehanced livelihoods |
OP 4.1 2 |
Proclamation 1/1 995, Article 40 |
Socio-economic and traditional norms safeguards of project affected persons shall be addressed in both systems before implementing development projects. |
| • OP 4.1 2 is a socio-economic safeguard that promotes the economic and social wellbeing of the communities adversely impacted by projects. If avoidance of adverse impacts is not possible, the communities affected by projects shall be compensated for lost assets. |
| Expropriation of land for public purposes, payments of compensation and Resettlement of displaced peoples (Proclamation No. 11 6 1/20 1 9) |
| Council of Minsters Regulation No. 472/2020: Expropriation and Valuation, Compensation and Resettlement |
| • These laws and regulations promote the concept that communities adversely affected by projects shall be compensated to ensure their stable sociao-economic and cultural activities. |