Safeguards Compliance Monitoring System
Background
The successful implementation of a World Bank environmental management plan (EMP) and resettlement action plan (RAP) requires that there be a mechanism wherein the people affected by a construction project can lodge complaints and be confident that they will be acted on.
The purpose of this project is to establish a pilot ‘Safeguards Compliance Monitoring System’ (SCMS). The goal of the SCMS is to:
Provide environment and resettlement information on the project to the public (eg download EMP, RAP, resettlement information booklets, etc.);
Record information on the environment and resettlement performance against key indicators (eg pollution of waterways, excessive noise emissions, excessive dust, damage to sensitive areas, compensation rates for main structures and land, how long it takes for displaced persons to receive compensation, land occupation before/after land taking, income recovery after resettlement rehabilitation);
Provide a mechanism for complaints to be automatically logged and forwarded to the appropriate parties.
The SCMS would support the evaluation of environment resettlement performance and, the assembly of the necessary data for project monitoring.