Nepal SEP, on the other hand, provides feedback received during consultations for what the project implementers should consider: • The need for the federal government to support not just national, but provincial hospitals to be able test and treat COVID-19 and other infectious diseases; • The need to ensure laboratories and hub hospitals are adequately resourced to manage potential outbreak of the virus in the country; and • The need to provide health staff with the necessary logistics and supplies (e.g. PPEs) to facilitate their work; and intensify public education and communication.18 Six of the 11 SEPs that were analyzed address the fact that precautions more broadly must be taken with stakeholder engagement to consider the safety of participants and prevent contagion: Liberia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, El Salvador, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia.19 Nepal’s and Uganda’s, as well as other aforementioned countries, say that “health and safety” will be a topic of consultations.20 The SEPs for The Gambia and Guatemala don’t seem to mention safety at all, and while the Burkina Faso SEP mentions that alternative engagement methods will be used during the pandemic, the use of them is not framed as a way to ensure safety to participants.21 Some SEPs go into more detail than others on the methods used for specific topics of consultation with different target stakeholders. Seven SEPs -- those of the Philippines, El Salvador, Sri Lanka, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Cambodia, and Nepal -- have tables in which this information is detailed.22 These tables, however, are laid out in such a way that the methods and target stakeholders for each topic of consultation are grouped together. For instance, a long list of outreach methods are listed for conducting consultations about the purpose and basis of the project to a range of stakeholders -- both government officials and vulnerable groups. 18 Bhattarai, “SEP - Nepal COVID-19 Project,” 5. 19 Chisaka, “SEP - Liberia COVID-19 Project,” 10; Mohammed-Roberts, “SEP - Bangladesh COVID-19 Project,” 6; Demombynes, “SEP - Philippines COVID-19 Project,” 7; Gordillo-Tobar, “SEP - El Salvador COVID-19 Project,” 4; Kak, “SEP - Sri Lanka COVID-19 Project,” 7; Hyder, “SEP - Cambodia COVID-19 Project,” 6. 20 Borrowing Agency, “SEP - Uganda COVID-19 Project,” 7; Bhattarai, “SEP - Nepal COVID-19 Project,” 8-9. 21 Besarabic Bennett, “SEP- Burkina Faso COVID-19 Project,” 11. 22 Demombynes, “SEP - Philippines COVID-19 Project,” 7 and 9; Gordillo-Tobar, “SEP - El Salvador COVID-19 Project,” 8-9; Kak, “SEP Sri Lanka COVID-19 Project,” 11-13; Borrowing Agency, “SEP - Uganda COVID-19 Project,” 5-6; Hyder, “SEP - Cambodia COVID-19 Project,” 6-7; Bhattarai, “SEP - Nepal COVID-19 Project,” 6-7. BANK INFORMATION CENTER | MAR 2021 The documents for Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia also explicitly indicate plans for separate consultations with certain marginalized groups: in the Philippines with IPs and stakeholders in BARMM; in Sri Lanka with women, pregnant women, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and children; and in Cambodia with IPs and ethnic groups.23 3. Data and information reported about SEP monitoring and consultations Every SEP says the projects will provide either quarterly or monthly summaries on grievances, “enquiries and related incidents,” the “status of implementation of associated corrective/preventive actions” collected by staff. All of the SEPs, except that of Guatemala, say that information on public activities “may be conveyed in two ways: publication of a standalone report on projects’ interaction with stakeholders” and a number of performance indicators monitored on a regular basis. Eight SEPs provide examples of the types of data on performance indicators, but differ slightly between them. All include “number of consultation meetings and other public discussions” conducted on a regular basis, the number of public grievances, and the number of materials published or broadcasted. The other three SEPs, those of Liberia, Guatemala, and Burkina Faso, only say that performance indicators generally will be reported on.24 None of the SEPs provided any plans for disaggregating data collected about participants in consultations by gender or by anything else. In fact, none of the SEPs made any plans to collect data about those who are consulted. D. Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM)25 1. Descriptions of the GRMs All of the SEPs include a section devoted to describing 23 Demombynes, “SEP - Philippines COVID-19 Project,” 7; Kak, “SEP Sri Lanka COVID-19 Project,” 13; Hyder, “SEP - Cambodia COVID-19 Project,” 9. 24 Cavagnero, “SEP - Guatemala COVID-19 Project,” 11; Besarabic Bennett, “SEP- Burkina Faso COVID-19 Project,” 14. 25 For each mention of project SEPs in this section, see the following page numbers: Chisaka, “SEP - Liberia COVID-19 Project,” 12; Mohammed-Roberts, “SEP - Bangladesh COVID-19 Project,” 8-9; Mills, “SEP - The Gambia COVID-19 Project,” 4-6; Demombynes, “SEP - Philippines COVID-19 Project,” 10; Cavagnero, “SEP - Guatemala COVID-19 Project,” 9-10; Gordillo-Tobar, “SEP - El Salvador COVID-19 Project,” 10-11; Demombynes, “SEP - Philippines COVID-19 Project,” 14-17; Besarabic Bennett, “SEP- Burkina Faso COVID-19 Project,” 12-13; Borrowing Agency, “SEP - Uganda COVID-19 Project,” 9-11; Hyder, “SEP - Cambodia COVID-19 Project,” 8-9; Bhattarai, “SEP - Nepal COVID-19 Project,” 10-11. 39