PUBLIC NOTICE: Notification to Members of the Public on the Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP) Environmental and Social Framework Plans

This is to bring to the attention of all stakeholders and members of the public that the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has prepared (i) an Environmental and Social Management Framework; (ii) a Stakeholder Engagement Framework; (iii) Labour Management Procedures; (iv) a Social Assessment; (v) a Framework for Addressing Gender-Based and Child Violence, Sexual Exploitation and Harassment against Women and Children; and (vi) an Emergency Operations Manual, for the Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project (RALP).

This is in accordance with the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Framework (2018) for all Bank-financed operations.

The RALP is a five-year project with the objective of strengthening capacity of farmers and farmers groups and improve agricultural production. The overall objective of the environmental and social plans is to enable the World Bank and MAFS to better manage environmental and social risks of the RALP and to improve development outcomes.

The plans can be obtained from the FAO website http://www.fao.org/environmental-social-standards/disclosure-portal/en/ or from the FAO Representation in South Sudan at UN House Juba 3, Jebel Khujur, Yei Road, Juba, or from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security on Ministries Road, Juba.

All stakeholders who may wish to submit oral or written comments on the plans are invited to do so through the means below.