Mozambique - Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project : environmental assessment

E1227 REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE Mozambique Integrated Professional Reform Program (PIRE) ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT FRAM EWORK Final Draft September 20, 2005 Mbaye Mbengue FAYE Consultant in Environmental and Social Assessment Email: fayeconseil(isentoo.sn Phone: (221) 832 44 31- 549 76 68 Dakar - Senegal  TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................... . . 5 1. INTRODUCTION ...............................9 ..........................9 2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION ............................... . 10 2.1 CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES OF PIREP .............................. ................... ........ 0 2.2 PROJECT COMPONENTS .............................. ......... 10 3. BIOPHYSICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OF THE COUNTRY ......... ........................ 12 3.1. BIOPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ..................................................................... ........................ 12 3.2 ENVIRONMENTAL POTENTIAL CONSTRAINTS .................................................................... , 14 3.3. SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT .................................................................... 15 4. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF PIREP .................................................. ........................ 17 4.1. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS DUE TO PLANNED REHABILITATION ACTIVITIES ....................... .. 17 4.2. SOCIAL IMPACTS DUE TO PLANNED REHABILITATION ACTIVITIES ............................................ ..18 5. LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGED [ENT ............... 23 5.1. INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ...................................................... . 23 5.2. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME (NEMP) ............. ......................... 24 5.3. SOCIAL STRATEGIES ...................................................... . 24 5.4. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION ...................................................... , 25 5.5. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK ....................................................... 28 5.6. DECENTRALIZATION - LOCAL GOVERNMENT ...................................................... , 30 5.7. INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL CONSTRAINTS ...................................................... . 31 7. OBJECTIVES OF THE ESMF AND METHODOLOGY USED ...................................................... 33 7.1. OBJECTIVES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK (ESMF) ... ....... . 33 7.2. METHODOLOGY USED TO PREPARE THE ESMF ...................................................................... . 34 7.3. SUMMARY OF THE OUTCOME OF THE CONSULTATION PROCESS ...................................................................... 35 8. THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SCREENING PROCESS ................................ ........................ 36 8.1. THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SCREENING PROCESS ......................................................3................. 36 8.2. THE SCREENING STEPS ....................................................................... 36 8.3. RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCREENING PROCESS .................................................... 4 1 9. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (EMP) ............................................................3........... 43 9.1. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVITIES . ................................................... 43 9.2. INSTITUTIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING THE MITIGATION MEASUI; ES .................... 43 9. 3. CAPACITY BUILDING FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL MANAGEMENT OF THE PROJEC . . 44 10. RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................ . 48 11. ANNEXES ................................................................ ........................ 50 1 1.1. ANNEX 1: PRE-ASSESSMENT FORM OF MICOA ("FICHA DE PRE-AVALIACAO") . . 50 11.2. ANNEx 2: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SCREENING FORM (ESSF) PROPOSED . . 52 11.3. ANNEX 3: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CHECKLIST ............... .......................... . 57 11.4. ANNEX 4: MITIGATION MEASURES LIST ......................................... . 58 11.5. ANNEX 5: ENVIRONMENTAL GUIDELINES FOR CONTRACTORS ...................................... .............|.-.-.-.-.- 60 11.6. ANNEX 6: SUMMARY OF THE WORLD BANK PROTECTION POLICIES ........................... ........................ 61 11.7. ANNEX 7: ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION PLAN FOR PIREP .................................................. 64 11.8. ANNEX 8: DRAFT EA TERMS OF REFERENCE .................................................. . 67 11.9. ANNEX 9: LIST OF INDIVIDUALS/INSTITUTIONS CONTACTED .............. ........................ 69 11.10. ANNEX 10: REFERENCES ................................... ........ .... 70 11.11. ANNEX 11: TERMS OF REFERENCES (TOR) ................................... ........................ ......... 71 3  LIST OF TABLES Table 1 National Parks in the project area ............................3.................... ........ 13 Table 2 Forest Reserves in the project area ............................ ,......... 13 Table 3 Organizational structural of COREP ............................ . ......... 30 LIST OF ACRONYMS COREP National Commission for TVET Reform CP Cooperating Partners DIN-ET National Directorate for Education and Training DNDR Directorate of Rural Development DNFFB National Directorate of Forestry and Wildlife DNOT National Directorate for Land Planning DPADER Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Rural Development DPAIA Provincial Directorate of Environmental Impact Assessment DPCOA Provincial Directorate for the Coordination of Environmental Af airs EA Environmental Assessment EIA Environmental Impact Assessment EMP Environmental Management Plan ESMF Environmental and Social management Framework ESSP Education Sector Strategic Plan FUNDEC Skills Development Fund GoM Government of Mozambique HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency S tndrome INEFP National Institute for Education and Vocational Training MADER Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEC Ministry of Education and Culture MICOA Ministry for the Coordination of Environmental Affairs MISAU Ministry of Health NCSD National Commission for Sustainable Development NEMP National Environmental Management Programme NGO Non governmental organization PARPA Action plan for the reduction of absolute poverty PIREP Mozambique Integrated Professional Reform Program PEPA Environmental Quality Standards of Mozambique Projects PRS Poverty Reduction Strategy RAP Resettlement Action Plan RPF Resettlement Policy Framework ToR Terms of Reference TVET Technical and Vocational Education and Training WB World Bank 4  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background: The Government of the Republic of Mozambique is preparing a project to transform the TVET system to respond more effectively, equitably and in a timely and articulated manner to labour mar et needs, using a qualifications framework and being sensitive to gender and HIV/AIDS issues. In the amework of this project it is planned, among other things, to improve the physical infrastructure. At pil t institutions, the project will fund rehabilitation of the physical infrastructure, including workshops, w er and sanitation facilities, and other teaching facilities essential for piloting the new courses. Project Components * Component A: Institutional Arrangement. Component A will assist the GO I to establish the institutional framework necessary to develop a labour-market relevant and ac ssible TVET in Mozambique in a coordinated, stakeholder-driven and sustainable manner. The objective of the component is to set up, or prepare the establishment of, appropriate structures for t e administration, management and financing of the TVET system in collaboration with the social pa ers. * Component B: Standard-based Qualification and Training System. The dvelopment of a standard-based qualification, training and assessment framework is a key to raisi g relevance and quality in the TVET system. * Component C: Quality Improvement. This component is designed to address the quality problems affecting the DINET and the INEPF (Ministry of Labour) schools. Major problems ae under-qualified and insufficiently skilled teachers, shortage of teaching aids, partly dilapidate workshops for practical training and outdated curricula. * Component D: Fundo para o Desenvolvimento de Competencias Profissi ais (FUNDEC). Component D is designed to assist the emergence of market-responsive tr ining in various occupational areas and for different target groups on a demand basis. Negative environmental and social impacts Under PIREP, physical environmental impacts will result mainly from the rehabilitatio and construction activities. The environmental impacts are expected to be limited to the managemen of wastes at the rehabilitation /construction sites (waste water, solid waste, rejection and elimination of rastes such as oils and paints, unsafe disposal of asbestos), soil erosion, loss of vegetation, as well as dus and noise during the works. At the social level, the rehabilitation works can generate adverse effects, for example, isk of outbreak of social conflicts; occupation of private lands during works; exclusion of vulner ble groups from participating in and benefiting from project activities; land acquisitions/use resulti ig in involuntary resettlement and/or loss of livelihoods or access to economic resources. PIREP has prey ared, separately, a Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) which will guide the implementation of m igation measures related to land acquisition should this become necessary. National Environmental legislation At national level, there are various legal instruments approved in environmental field: * The National Environmental Management Programme (NEMP); * The Environmental laws : environmental law n