Punjab Cities Program (PCP) is World Bank funded program which is being executed by LG&CDD. PCP is being implemented in 16 Municipal Committees/Corporations of Punjab. Adoption of ESMF in all Eligible Investments of PCP is one of the performance objectives of the program. This ESMF is prepared by Environmental & Social Management team of PMDFC, to facilitate the cities in understanding & compliance of social and environmental management processes and procedures as per World Bank and Local Perspective.

The major objectives are:

• To ensure that subprojects to be designed and implemented under the program are environmentally and socially acceptable. • Identify and execute practical, feasible, credible and cost-effective measures to offset or reduce adverse environmental and social impacts to acceptable level.

Subprojects Cycle:

• Sub-project Design & Preparation: Social & Environmental Screening, Categorization and Public Consultation. • Appraisal: Preparation of Instruments (ESMP/IEE/SAR/SMP/RAP/ARAP) • Implementation: Instrument Implementation cost inclusion in the bidding document & Contracts of contractor • Monitoring & Evaluation: Environmental & Social Monitoring as Instruments.

ESMF implementation steps:

1. Environmental & Social Screening of each subproject 2. Development of instruments (EIA/IEE/ESMP/RAP/ARAP/SAR) 3. Inclusion of instruments & Cost in bid documents/ Contracts. 4. Environmental & Social Monitoring to ensure effective Implementation f the mitigation 5. Annual Performance Assessments (APAs)