Appraisal Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) - Cambodia General Education Improvement Project - P174335 (English)

The project activities will help contribute to address the gap in equitable access to quality education services facing Cambodia through improving school-based management, providing training and upgrading the qualification of teachers, constructing, rehabilitating and renovating school facilities, supporting the development of sub-sector strategies and improving monitoring of core reforms in the e [...] The construction supervision works are commissioned to the Department of Construction of MoEYS which is tasked with selecting site engineers, designing the facilities, and ensuring the quality of the civil works (and implementing the ESMP for civil works). [...] The said problem is attributed to the quality and workload of supervision engineers, whose background in E&S risks management is limited, as well as the lack of working condition and safety awareness, and knowledge of E&S risks management, among community workers and the Facility Support Teams. [...] The ESU of the PMT, with the support of DoC, takes the lead for the screening for school locations as well as the ES screening. [...] This classification takes into account the institutional capacity to manage risks and impacts in a manner consistent with the ESF, and the magnitude and scale of GEIP activities as it targets every district in the country.