INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET CONCEPT STAGE Public Disclosure Copy Report No.: ISDSC2520 Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: 21-Feb-2013 Date ISDS Approved/Disclosed: 19-Mar-2013 I. BASIC INFORMATION A. Basic Project Data Country: Cambodia Project ID: P144715 Project Name: Cambodia Global Partnership for Education Second Education Support Project (P144715) Task Team Prateek Tandon Leader: Estimated 15-Jul-2013 Estimated 04-Mar-2014 Appraisal Date: Board Date: Managing Unit: EASHE Lending Specific Investment Loan Instrument: Sector(s): Primary education (50%), Pre-primary education (30%), Secondary education (20%) Theme(s): Education for all (100%) Financing (In USD Million) Total Project Cost: 38.50 Total Bank Financing: 0.00 Public Disclosure Copy Total Cofinancing: Financing Gap: 0.00 Financing Source Amount Borrower 0.00 Education for All - Fast Track Initiative 38.50 Total 38.50 Environmental B - Partial Assessment Category: Is this a No Repeater project? B. Project Objectives The PDO is to assist the Government to expand access to Early Childhood Education (ECE) for 3-5 year olds and improve access to and quality of basic education for students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. C. Project Description The project consists of four components: Component 1: Improving the Access and Educational Experience of Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Public Disclosure Copy Students (US$19,000,000) This component aims to support the access to and quality of education for vulnerable and disadvantaged students through: (a) increased access to ECE and care for disadvantaged 3-5 year olds throughout the country; and (b) increased access to basic education services in rural and remote areas with a particular focus on disadvantaged children and children with disabilities. Component 2: Benchmarking Student Competencies (US$9,000,000) This component aims to improve the capacity in assessing and collecting data on student competencies through nationalizing Early Grade Reading and Mathematics Assessments (EGRA and EGMA). The component will also provide monitoring support to schools and MoEYS, as well as technical assistance to the National Assessment Office. Component 3: Improving the Current and Future Cohort of Cambodia’s Primary and Secondary Teaching Force (US$6,000,000) This component aims to improve the current and future cohort of teachers through supporting: (a) Regional and Provincial Teacher Training Colleges throughout the country; and (b) the improvement of academic leadership of school principals and pedagogical training for contract teachers in rural and remote schools. Component 4: System Management and Monitoring and Evaluation (US$4,500,000) This component will support the enhancement of early childhood and primary education sub-sector Public Disclosure Copy results-based management under the Public Financial Management Reform Programme. The component will also encompass project grant management, monitoring and evaluation. D. Project location and salient physical characteristics relevant to the safeguard analysis (if known) Nationwide. E. Borrowers Institutional Capacity for Safeguard Policies The proposed Grant is a follow-on operation of the recently closed Cambodia Education for All Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI) Project, in which the recipient demonstrated the capacity to comply with Bank safeguards policies throughout project implementation. At the management level, the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports (MoEYS), in coordination with the Education Sector Working Group and the World Bank, the Trustee of the GPE Partnership, will lead project activities. MoEYS will be responsible for everyday implementation of the grant at the operational level. MoEYS will appoint a Designated Technical Officer who will manage the proposed civil works under their respective components. Separately a designated Safeguards Officer will be appointed by MoEYS who will be responsible for scrutinizing the environmental safeguards issues involved in each civil works activity. The institutional capacity is deemed adequate for the project. F. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists on the Team Satoshi Ishihara (EASTS) Makathy Tep (EASSD) II. SAFEGUARD POLICIES THAT MIGHT APPLY Public Disclosure Copy Safeguard Policies Triggered? Explanation (Optional) Environmental Assessment OP/ Yes The project will prepare an Environmental and BP 4.01 Social Management Framework (ESMF) which will lay out screening procedures for sub- projects and include relevant information on the management of environmental and social issues in the project. In addition, since the types of infrastructure to be supported by the proposed project are of small scale and mostly known, a set of Environmental Codes of Practice (ECOPs), covering mitigation measures for generic impacts on school construction and operations related activities, would also be prepared. The ECOPs will have provisions for chance find procedures and be included in the bidding documents and construction contracts. For most sub-projects, the ECOPs should be sufficient. If there are any sub-projects with impacts and mitigation measures not adequately covered by the ECOPs, short Environmental Management Plans (EMPs) would be prepared which will in addition lay out site-specific mitigation measures which would have to be considered for those sub-projects and appropriately included in the bidding Public Disclosure Copy documents. Natural Habitats OP/BP 4.04 No The project will not cause any degradation of natural habitats as defined under the safeguard policy. Forests OP/BP 4.36 No The project will not degrade critical forest areas as defined under the safeguard policy. Pest Management OP 4.09 No The project will not involve any procurement of pesticides nor cause any increased use of pesticides. Physical Cultural Resources OP/ No The project will not adversely affect sites with BP 4.11 archaeological, paleontological, historical, religious, or unique natural values. Indigenous Peoples OP/BP 4.10 Yes The project will prepare a social assessment (SA) namely to determine the potential impacts on the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the areas where the project activities are anticipated. Based on the social assessment and consultations with the Indigenous Peoples, the safeguards instrument to be prepared before appraisal will be an Indigenous Peoples Plan (IPP). The IPP will explain the measures Public Disclosure Copy through which the project will ensure that the affected Indigenous Peoples will receive appropriate social and economic benefits, and adverse impacts to IPs, if any, will be addressed. Involuntary Resettlement OP/BP No All construction sites are known and will occur 4.12 within existing primary school facilities. The construction activities for the ECE classrooms will be extensions of existing primary school facilities within their current grounds’ boundaries. Based on site visits to a sample of primary schools throughout the country, the task team has confirmed that no acquisition of private land, or loss of private assets including trees and structures, will occur, and that physical relocation will not be necessary. In the sector's previous projects in Cambodia (the Cambodia Education Sector Support Project (2005 - 2011) and the Cambodia Education Sector Support Scale Up Action Program (2008 - 2012)), which included similar interventions, neither land acquisition nor physical relocation was necessary. Safety of Dams OP/BP 4.37 No The project does not involve any dams. Projects on International No The project does not involve international Public Disclosure Copy Waterways OP/BP 7.50 waterways. Projects in Disputed Areas OP/BP No The project will not be located in any known 7.60 disputed areas as defined in the policy. III. SAFEGUARD PREPARATION PLAN A. Tentative target date for preparing the PAD Stage ISDS: 25-Jun-2013 B. Time frame for launching and completing the safeguard-related studies that may be needed. The specific studies and their timing1 should be specified in the PAD-stage ISDS: The above-noted safeguard-related studies will be completed by April 30, 2013 and disclosed immediately thereafter. IV. APPROVALS Task Team Leader: Name: Prateek Tandon Approved By: Regional Safeguards Name: Peter Leonard (RSA) Date: 19-Mar-2013 Coordinator: Sector Manager: Name: Luis Benveniste (SM) Date: 21-Feb-2013 1 Reminder: The Bank's Disclosure Policy requires that safeguard-related documents be disclosed before appraisal (i) at the InfoShop and (ii) in country, at publicly accessible locations and in a form and language that are accessible to potentially affected persons.