Social & Environmental

Principle 1

Social and Environmental Assessment and Management System (SEMS), incorporates the following elements:

• Screening and categorization of projects;
• Social and environmental (S&E) assessment;
• S&E management program;
• Organizational capacity and competency;
• Training;
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Stakeholder engagement;
• Monitoring and review; and
• Reporting;

Principle 2

Labour and Working Conditions:

• Promote the fair treatment, non-discrimination, and equal opportunity of workers;
• Establishes, maintains and improves worker-management relationship;
• Addresses child labour, forced labour, migrant workers, workers engaged by third parties, and workers in the client’s supply chain; and
• Promotes safe and healthy working conditions and practices

Principle 3

Pollution Prevention, Abatement & Climate Change:

• Addresses pollution prevention and management of impacts arising from project activities;
• Ensures conformance with global good practice and standards;
• Promote more sustainable use of resources; and
• Ensures that climate change issues associated with project activities are assessed, mitigated, and monitored over the life of IIF’s investment.

Principle 4

Community Health, Safety, & Security/ Dam Safety:

• Seeks to avoid or minimize the risks and impacts to Affected Community health, safety and security that may arise from project activities;
• The project’s direct impacts on priority ecosystem services may result in adverse health and safety risks and impacts to Affected Communities;
• Ensures that the safeguarding of personnel and property is carried out in accordance with relevant human rights principles and in a manner that avoids or minimizes risks to the Affected Communities; and
• Includes special requirements related to the safety of dams associated with projects.

Principle 5

Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement:

• Refers to both physical displacement (relocation or loss of shelter) and economic displacement (loss of assets or access to assets that leads to loss of income
  sources or means of livelihood) as a result of project-related land acquisition;
• Does not apply to physical displacement or resettlement resulting from voluntary land transactions; and
• Avoid, minimize, mitigate or compensate for adverse social and economic impacts from land acquisition or restrictions on land use through the process of Social and Environmental Assessment under Principle 1; and
• No forced evictions will be carried out except in accordance with law and the requirements of this Principle.

Principle 6

Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Natural Resources Management:

• Includes protection, conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity and living natural resources;
• Maintain the benefits from ecosystem services; and
• Evaluate primary suppliers’ risk of significant conversion of natural and/or critical habitats.

Principle 7

Indigenous People (IP):

• Includes identification of all impacts (positive & negative) on IP; social assessment, informed consultation and Participation (ICP) to Indigenous Peoples’ Development Plan;
• Anticipate and avoid, or when avoidance is not possible, minimize and/or compensate project adverse impacts on communities of Indigenous Peoples; and
• Applies to projects that impact individuals or communities that meet the definition of Indigenous People, determination of which may require Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC).

Principle 8

Cultural Property and Heritage:

• Recognizes the importance of cultural property and heritage for current and future generations, consistent with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage; and
• Seeks to guide IIF project sponsors in identifying and protecting cultural heritage in the course of project design and execution.