Executive Summary
1. Introduction
This Indigenous Peoples Planning Framework (IPPF) outlines the policy, process and procedures to understand project impacts on Indigenous Peoples (IPs) under the Strategic Road Connectivity and Trade Improvement Project (SRCTIP)-Trade Facilitation Component, to be implemented by the Ministry of the Industry Commerce and Supply (MoICS) and Ministry of the Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD), with financial support from the World Bank. This IPPF has been prepared in full compliance with Government of Nepal (GON) policies and with the World Bank’s Environmental and Socials Standard (ESS) 7 on Indigenous People.
2. Project Description and: SRCTIP-Trade Facilitation Component
The SRCTIP-Trade Component activities broadly cover the construction and improvement of theboarder infrastructure and laboratories at the various location of the Inland Container Depot viz; Biratnagar, Birjung and Bhairawaha. Likewise the selected access road improvements and parking yard development will be carried out in corresponding location. The IPPF has been developed at this stage of the project given that the scale and exact locations of project activities to be implemented under this component are not yet determined. Details will
be determined when the relevant feasibility studies as well as Environmental and Social Studies are conducted during the detail design phase. Adhering to this framework the project/sub project should develop Indigenous People Development Plan (IPDP), where it is determined that indigenous peoples (IPs) are living in or have collective attachment to land in the subproject area. This will be identified during the project screening and ESA (if any) by the SRCTIP-Trade Component.
Indigenous Peoples Planning Framework (IPPF)
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