Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) - Second Rural Enterprise Development Project - P176017 (English)

The three components to achieve the development objective are as follows: Component 1: Enterprise Development (22.5 million USD) The objective of the component is to facilitate the establishment and growth of farms, agribusinesses and rural enterprises in the targeted rural areas through the provision of technical support and assistance. [...] The nature, scope, and frequency of stakeholder engagement will be proportionate to the nature and scale of the project and its potential risks and impacts. [...] The Project implementing party will maintain, and disclose as part of the environmental and social assessment, a documented record of stakeholder engagement, including a description of the stakeholders consulted, a summary of the feedback received, and a brief explanation of how the feedback was taken into account, or the reasons why it was not. [...] The project also participated in the Third-Party Monitoring (TPM) and activities of the Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) established by the World Bank for the agricultural portfolio in the country in order to focus on the issues of child and forced labor. [...] The main objectives of the meetings were familiarization of participants with the scope of the upcoming Project and determination of the relevant mechanisms of communication and consultations for the duration of the Project implementation.