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Ethiopia - Women Entrepreneurship Development Project : Additional Financing - Environmental Assessment : Environmental and Social Management Framework

17 Nov 2020

The Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP) AF aims to increase the earnings and employment of the female participants’ businesses in urban areas relative to a comparison group. The business operations supported through WEDP can have adverse environmental impacts. However, several projects in combination, or in combination with other government or private sector activities, could also have a larger, more significant cumulative impact. Particularly, given the nature of MSEs and their tendency to form clusters, the cumulative impacts can be considered significant. For example, a study undertaken in 2009 for the joint UNEP-UNIDO project on resource efficiency and cleaner production, i.e. Project for Promoting Resource Efficiency in SMEs (PRE-SME), highlights that such cumulative impact can be significant for SMEs in the textile and ready-made garment, and the leather processing7 & footwear sectors. These impacts may be a result of the disposal of non-hazardous and hazardous wastes and chemicals, which may not be significant when considering individual MSEs, but significant when considering them collectively. The avoidance and mitigation of cumulative impacts requires avoidance and mitigation of the negative impacts of individual businesses supported through WEDP; careful planning, based on sound technical knowledge and the requirements and implications of the businesses supported within the WEDP planning cycles. Furthermore, proper screening of subprojects using the ESMF will help to avoid and mitigate such negative environmental impacts.
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Belay,Ethiopia

Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Environmental and Social Management Framework
Document Date
2020-11-01
Published in
United States of America
Rel Proj ID
ET-Ethiopia Women Entrepreneurship Development Project -- P122764
Total Volume(s)
1
Unit Owning
N/A
Version Type
Final
Volume No
1

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