ESMF definition

ESMF means the Recipient’s framework, setting out the rules, guidelines and procedures to assess environmental and social impacts of the Project’s activities, and measures to reduce, mitigate or offset adverse social and environmental impacts and enhance positive impacts of said activities including public consultation, institutional arrangements for the implementation, monitoring and supervision of said measures, as the ESMF may be amended from time to time with the prior written approval of the Association.
ESMF means the framework dated, March 2007, prepared by the Recipient and approved by the Association, setting forth an environmental and social screening process that will enable Project implementers to identify and assess potential adverse environmental and social impacts, and offset and reduce them to acceptable levels, or enhance positive impacts, and in accordance with which ESMPs will be prepared and submitted to the Association for its approval, as the same may be amended from time to time with the concurrence of the Association.
ESMF means the Recipient’s framework dated November 30, 2010, which: (i) sets forth standards, methods and procedures specifying how technological research activities under the Project whose location, number and scale are presently unknown shall systematically address environmental and social issues in the screening and categorization, sitting, design, implementation and monitoring phases during Project implementation; (ii) systematizes the environmental and social impact assessment required for such activities before Project execution; and (iii) stipulates the procedures for conducting site-specific environmental impact assessments, be they limited environmental impact assessments or full environmental impact assessment.

Examples of ESMF in a sentence

  • The Project Implementing Entity shall carry out Parts A, B and C of the Project through the SPAC in accordance with the provisions of the PIM, the ESMF and the EMP; and except as the Association shall otherwise agree, the Project Implementing Entity or the Recipient shall not amend or waive any provision of any of these documents.

  • The Project Implementing Entity shall carry out its Respective Parts of the Project within its jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of the ESMF and EMP.


More Definitions of ESMF

ESMF or “Environmental and Social Management Framework” means the Recipient’s document dated February 24, 2006 setting forth, inter alia, guidelines, procedures, timetable and other specifications designed to offset adverse environmental and social impacts related to Project activities, or to reduce them to acceptable levels, or to enhance positive impacts.
ESMF means Environmental and Social Management Framework, the document to be adopted by the Recipient referred to Section I. C of Schedule 2 to this Agreement, consisting of a framework outlining the modalities for social and environmental screening of Project activities and rules and procedures for the preparation and implementation of ESIA to be complied with, as the case may be, prior to carrying out such activity.
ESMF means the framework included in the EA setting out modalities to be followed in assessing the potential adverse environmental and social impact associated with activities to be implemented under the Project, and the measures to be taken to offset, reduce, or mitigate such adverse impact.
ESMF means the framework, dated October 2004, agreed with the Association for the environmental and social screening process to be followed in identifying, assessing, and mitigating the potential adverse environmental and social impact associated with activities to be implemented under the Project;
ESMF means Environmental and Social Management Framework, the Recipient’s environmental and social framework for the Project, dated September 1, 2009 , which includes specific procedures to address the direct and indirect environmental impacts of the Project’s activities and specific guidelines and procedures to prevent, mitigate or compensate eventual environmental and social impacts, as well as organizational schemes which define institutional responsibilities of each of the Selected Agencies.
ESMF means the Recipient’s environmental and social management framework for the Project furnished to the Association on October 15, 2008, as such framework may be updated from time to time by agreement between the Recipient and the Association, setting forth the mitigating, monitoring and institutional measures to be taken during the implementation and operation of the Project to offset or reduce adverse environmental impacts to levels acceptable to the Association.
ESMF means the document of the Recipient dated March, 2009 (including the terms of reference for preparation of pest management plans), as the said document may be amended and/or supplemented from time to time with the prior written concurrence of the Association, setting forth the modalities for environmental screening and procedures for the preparation and implementation of environmental assessments and management plans under the Project pursuant to Section I.D.1 of Schedule 2 to this Agreement, and such term includes all schedules and annexes to the ESMF.