Appraisal Environmental and Social Review Summary (ESRS) - Employment Support Project 2 - P176895 (English)

The implementation arrangements for the Project will follow the implementation arrangements under the ongoing ESP, relying on the same PIUs and arrangements established for the ongoing project. [...] In the RS, the project implementation is carried out by the RS Employment Bureau with the support of a project implementation unit established within the Ministry of Labor and War Veterans and Disabled Persons’ Protection. [...] As such, the environmental risk associated with the second project is low, and there is no need for a full-time environmental specialist in the PIU s. The Bank team, together with the PIU s, has determined the screening criteria to ensure that enterprises included in the project possess applicable valid environmental permits, that the increased employment will not increase the facility’s productio [...] The Project will achieve this primarily through improving the effectiveness and enhancing the scopes of the existing employment programs and by capturing and remedying the gaps and shortcomings of the ongoing ESP, but also national employment programs delivering employment/skill upgrade service/placement on the job/on the job training, etc. [...] The Project includes a series of improvements in the design and implementation of ALMPs, such as creating incentives to increase the number of beneficiaries, including the newly unemployed, adapting the policies to the specific context and making sure that programs benefit all of the target population, which by virtue of unemployment are already considered vulnerable per se, but some of whom face