Gender and Social Inclusion. Unless MCC and the Government agree otherwise in writing, the Government shall ensure that all Projects and Activities undertaken, funded, or otherwise supported in whole or in part (directly or indirectly) by MCC Funding comply with the Gender Policy, Counter-Trafficking in Persons Policy, and the Operational Requirements and Milestones for Social Inclusion and Gender Integration.
Gender and Social Inclusion. The Parties shall agree in writing to the applicable gender and social inclusion measures for each ACFD Project transaction, as such transactions are identified.
Gender and Social Inclusion. To address women’s mobility barriers, the CTR Project includes a three-pronged Improved Women’s Mobility Sub-activity, described above. The ESIA conducted by ANE indicates that the construction of the Licungo Bridge has the potential to improve income generation opportunities for women and youth, initially through the Project’s construction jobs and afterward, through enhanced access to the sale of agricultural and livestock products. The CTR Project may present social and gender-related risks to women, children, and communities near project sites, mainly in terms of sexual harassment, gender-based violence, and trafficking in persons (particularly sex trafficking). Construction works may involve a large influx of male workers who may engage in harmful behaviors, especially toward women and children. The initial trafficking in persons assessment identified that forced labor is a risk in the CTR Project and highlighted the risks that improving roads can support existing trafficking corridors and tendencies. Road safety is also of significant concern in Mozambique and will need to be further assessed in the proposed roads, both for motorized and non-motorized road users. The Licungo Bridge ESIA conducted by ANE also identifies the increase in gender-based violence by affluent workers in the region and increased prostitution, early marriages, and unplanned pregnancies. Therefore, the CTR Project will mitigate these risks through a holistic approach, including awareness raising among communities and with construction workers/employees, setting up effective reporting and response mechanisms, conducting strong oversight during implementation, and working with relevant government and non-governmental institutions. The Project will also explore the use of digital platforms to monitor compliance and report safety incidents. Finally, the CTR Project also includes efforts to improve women’s and youth’s employment through the road construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance interventions. These efforts will consist of resources for skills training, job orientation, mentorship, and support in establishing associations to compete for maintenance contracts.
Gender and Social Inclusion. Through the ZCAP Activity, the PRIA Project will seek to address the needs and opportunities of both women and youth. It will have as targets that: 40 percent of the smallholder farmer beneficiaries will be women and 30 percent of the smallholder farmer beneficiaries will be youth. The ZCAP Activity will support this effort by implementing the Gender Action Learning System through the Sub-activity discussed above. To accomplish this, the ZCAP Activity’s technical assistance to aggregators and smallholder farmers will provide support with inclusive business plans for aggregators, results-based financing, extension services and provision of inputs (such as seeds and fertilizer) to smallholder farmers, implementation of the Gender Action Learning System, and gender-based violence risk mitigation. The Gender Action Learning System has been successfully implemented with Mozambique’s farmers in past projects. Based on this earlier success, the PRIA Project expects to improve women’s participation in managing household income, production, and assets, as well as reduce gender-based violence, raise awareness of gender inequality and improve the allocation of chores within the household. Without this effort, the ZCAP Activity would continue replicating the gender disparities in Mozambique’s agricultural sector. Moving forward, the ZCAP Activity will explore the use of digital platforms to enhance the impact of interventions, especially on women smallholder farmers and youth (for example, to improve access to extension services and coordination with aggregators). The initial trafficking in persons assessment identified trafficking in persons risks related to family farming, therefore, the PRIA Project will seek to further assess this risk and address it appropriately, focusing more on the risks of forced child labor.
Gender and Social Inclusion. The CLCR Project presents exciting opportunities to support women and youth in the fisheries sector, both from an income generation focus and from participation in decision-making in the fisheries sector. Selected partners will integrate methodologies to support women’s empowerment and decision-making at the household and community level. The Project will support institutional strengthening of the Ministry of Fisheries from a gender and social inclusion perspective. The CLCR Project will benefit from gender and social inclusion analyses to understand better how gender, age, socioeconomic status, and other social norms create barriers and influence opportunities for women, youth, or other marginalized social groups. These analyses will also guide the Project’s efforts to support fisheries with an inclusive and gender- responsive approach, promoting women’s economic empowerment and participation in the fisheries management committees. The analyses will also assess and propose mitigation measures for potential risks to women and vulnerable groups, including issues related to land ownership. The analyses will be designed to include, learn from, and influence diverse members of communities, provincial and district government, the private sector, and staff of the implementing agencies. These analyses will also explore gender and social risks, including the risk of sexual exploitation and other forms of gender-based violence that women face in the fisheries sector. The CLCR Project will shape ongoing attention to gender and inclusion through follow-up studies, public communications, support to Mozambique, and intensive work with communities. The CLCR Project will also build upon the initial trafficking in persons assessment to identify trafficking risks. Of particular concern are the young boys impacted by the planned beach seine removal program, which may put these boys at risk of traffickers or further exploitation.
Gender and Social Inclusion. The Transmission Project primarily focuses on reinforcing the existing network in Dakar, which represents one-quarter of Senegal’s population, where the poverty rate is the lowest (13 percent) and where the rate of electrification is the highest (93 percent). Improving grid stability shall lessen the need of poor families to develop alternative sources of energy. In addition, the Project is responsive to stakeholder consultations, during which poorer consumers reported significant equipment losses due to electricity surges. These poor consumers are less able to repurchase damaged equipment due to a lack of financial resources. The Project also presents additional gender and social inclusion opportunities and risks related to construction. During construction, MCC and the Government shall closely monitor implementation to ensure compliance with the IFC Performance Standards as they relate to women and vulnerable populations. In particular, women are heavily involved with the fishing industry as sellers, and MCC and the Government shall monitor the impact of the undersea cable on the fishing industry to determine any differential impact on women. Additional measures aimed at mitigating social risks and expanding the benefits of the Project include: (i) supporting the creation of short-term economic opportunities for women and local communities around Project (e.g. skills development and employment on construction sites, opportunities for informal actors and microenterprises to provide catering and other support services); and (ii) identifying opportunities to increase women’s participation in training programs. Senegal is also on the U.S. Department of State’s Tier 2 Watch List for 2018, and the Project presents high risks for trafficking in persons (“TIP”) and child labor. In accordance with the MCC Counter-Trafficking in Persons Policy, the Project shall be assessed by MCC, with support from the Government and MCA-Senegal II, for TIP risks. Activities shall be classified as low- risk or high risk. For low risk Activities, Counter-TIP Minimum Compliance Requirements (as defined in the MCC Counter-Trafficking in Persons Policy) shall be included in relevant solicitation documents and contracts. For Activities classified as high risk, MCA-Senegal II shall develop a specific TIP risk management plan, to be approved by MCC prior to issuing a solicitation for such procurements.
Gender and Social Inclusion. The Access Project is specifically designed to address gender and social exclusion factors in Senegal. The Access Project’s primary intervention areas (Fatick, Kaolack, Kolda, Sédhiou and Tambacounda), are among the poorest in Senegal, with low rates of electrification. These areas also have extremely high percentages of young people, and these youth have few job opportunities due to the low levels of economic activity. The Supply-Side Activity focuses on key agriculture value chains, each of which have specific gender and social inclusion considerations. Women and youth are typically excluded from full productivity due to a lower level of access to the factors of production (land, capital, finance, etc.), so specific design considerations must be integrated to ensure benefits also accrue to women and youth (and even if they do, to ensure that these benefits are not then captured by male members of the household). MCC and the Government shall monitor changes and identify mitigation activities measures as necessary, such as diversification of production/processing. As a risk mitigation mechanism, MCC and the Government shall assess support for social infrastructure connections to benefit the overall community, such as schools, health clinics and/or community-owned productive use facilities, like xxxxx and pumps. The Consumer Demand Support Activity is also designed to ensure the distribution of benefits among beneficiaries by providing access to information for men, women and youth on electricity connections and its benefits, as well as access to information on potential labor- and time-saving devices such as irrigation pumps, xxxxx, etc., and equipment financing. Like the Transmission Project, temporary employment opportunities for men, women and youth in the Project intervention areas on or around construction sites shall be explored, based on skills available in the region and the needs of the contractor. Pursuant to the MCC Counter-Trafficking in Persons Policy, the MCC and the Government shall also assess TIP risks and act accordingly.
Gender and Social Inclusion. Having a sound policy and institutional framework as well as an enabling environment for improved performance for the electricity sector has direct implications for social inclusion, and gender and social inclusion considerations have been incorporated into numerous components of the Reform Project. As described in Section B.3(a)(i)(B) to this Annex I, the Reform Project supports the Ministry of Energy’s integration of gender through the development and initial operationalization of a gender mainstreaming plan, to account for the different energy needs for men and women. Through the Utility Strengthening Activity, proposed components to improve KPIs for connections performance and improve the MV network have direct implications for poor and vulnerable populations in Senelec territory. The Regulatory Strengthening Activity implicates gender and social inclusion issues as follows: o By supporting the Government’s efforts to update the regulatory, policy, and institutional arrangements in the sector, the Reform Project aims to facilitate additional investment in rural electrification and ensure that CRSE has the capacity to monitor contract compliance (and take appropriate action when a licensee is noncompliant), thereby contributing to the reduction of geographical discrepancies of access and quality, which excludes poorer and rural populations from the electrification process. o To combat electricity illiteracy and lack of consumer awareness and protections, the Reform Project also supports CRSE to engage more effectively with consumer stakeholders and others through technical assistance to develop appropriate communications strategies and plans. o While the Program is designed to lower the cost of service in the long-run, the Parties recognize that there may be a short-term increase in the tariff, with an associated risk of adverse social impact. To mitigate this risk, the Reform Project includes a specific communication plan to accompany any change in the tariff (either in tariff value or in structure), and a social inclusion approach shall be integrated into the cost of service study planned under the Reform Project.
Gender and Social Inclusion. Unless MCC and the Government agree otherwise in writing, the Government shall ensure that the Project and Activities undertaken, funded, or otherwise supported in whole or in part (directly or indirectly) by MCC Funding comply with the MCC Gender Policy and the MCC Gender Integration Guidelines. Where there is a difference between Mongolian gender and social inclusion laws and regulations and the standards required by the Compact, the Government shall ensure that the stricter standard is followed. Role of MCA-Mongolia.
Gender and Social Inclusion. The HSS Project integrates gender and social inclusion across its activities. There is particular attention to providing local health services, including VHWs and health outposts that reach the most remote villages, and empowering health clinic managers, nurses, and VHWs to better collect and use data for health services and decision making at the local level. Coordination and supportive supervision of VHWs is aimed at improving health care access for remote and underserved populations, and then better connecting these patients to higher levels of the health care system where they will benefit from improved health center services, referrals, patient data tracking, and district hospital services. The Project integrates and highlights GBV response throughout the project design through its focus on providing better and expanded services for GBV survivors at PHC locations, addressing pre-service training of health staff, ensuring protocols for GBV are standardized in all health facilities, applying international best practices on tracking GBV in the health data system, and ensuring confidentiality, coordinating referrals both within the MOH as well as to and from other relevant government institutions and nongovernmental service providers, and promoting awareness in communities of GBV-related health services. The Counter Domestic Violence Law provides the legal framework for implementation of all the GBV treatment, referral work and reporting that is integrated throughout the HSS Project design. The HSS Project does not involve large works, but nonetheless poses a risk for women working with foreign and Basotho contractors of being coerced into sexual relationships in exchange for maintaining employment and achieving better working conditions. Also, given the anticipated increase in internet access and usage as a result of e-government services and data use in the HSS Project, there is an increased risk of social media being used to find and lure victims into forced labor and sex trafficking. The Government will conduct a stand-alone, project-level trafficking-in-persons (TIP) risk assessment for the Project.
