the document. In some cases, language found in a
SEP that was identical to language found in every
SEP in the sample per a template that was prepared
for COVID-19 emergency response projects; in
some cases, noted below, this template language
was determined not to fulfill the criteria sought in
questions from the questionnaire.
BIC also used key-word searches of the Environmental
and Social Risk Summary (ESRS) and Environmental
and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) documents of the
sample projects to identify content related projects’:
social risk ratings; gender-based violence (GBV)
related risks and risks related to sexual exploitation
and abuse and sexual harassment (SEA/SH); and
commitments to update SEPs. The ESCP was also
used to determine whether the ESF policy related to
Indigenous Peoples/Sub-Saharan African Historically
Underserved Traditional Local Communities was
applied to each project in the sample.
In total, our analysis included documents from
projects in the following 11 countries (see Annex 3 for
more information about these projects and citations
for the documents that BIC assessed):
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Burkina Faso
Liberia
The Gambia
Uganda
Bangladesh
Nepal
Sri Lanka
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Cambodia
Philippines
El Salvador
Guatemala
The Analysis section below details our main findings
from the assessment of these project documents,
organized according to five focus areas that roughly
correspond to the major components of SEPs:
A. Stakeholder Identification and Marginalized
Groups
B. Information Disclosure and Accessibility
C. Consultations and Feedback mechanisms
D. Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM)
E. SEP implementation
Annex 4 provides a more complete overview of the
data collected based on the questionnaire in Annex
1.
An updated SEP for the Liberia project was also
assessed, but only the original SEPs disclosed for
each country’s project were included in the analysis
below. See Annex 5 for a deeper analysis and
comparison of the original and updated SEPs for the
Liberia COVID-19 Emergency Response Project.
Considering that the analysis includes documents
for a sample of only 11 projects, the findings in this
report cannot be generalized to all of the COVID-19
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