The regional technical assistance (TA) RETA 7566: Strengthening and Use of Country Safeguard Systems (CSS) included a review of Papua New Guinea (PNG) environmental legislation with regard to equivalence with the environment safeguards covered in Asian Development Bank’s Safeguard Policy Statement 2009 (SPS). The overall CSS assessment procedures to be adopted in subprojects implemented under the RETA were presented in a workshop in November 2011.

The guideline is intended to assist and guide prospective developers (and/or their consultants) to undertake environmental assessments of hydropower projects. The development of this guideline is based on significant field experience gained from working in hydropower development while the process shown here typically follows that used by multilateral lending agencies and in particular the Asian Development Bank.

This Guideline is intended to assist and guide prospective developers (and/or their consultants) to prepare an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) as required for undertaking Level 2 and Level 3 activities as required by the Director under Section 132 of the Environment Act 2000 and procedures issued by DEC in Nov 2012 and March 2013 which specifically deal with the requirement for the Proponent to submit an EMP.

This guideline (the guideline) updates an earlier guideline written for the Department of Works (DoW) in 1999. As the guideline was issued prior to the Environment Act, 2000 and the Environment (Prescribed Activities) Regulation, 2002 the guideline is now updated to be compliant with these legislative and regulatory requirements, including the more recent instructions issued by the Department of Environment (DEC) in 2004, 2012. and 2013

This document is to avoid involuntary resettlement wherever possible; to minimize involuntary resettlement by exploring project and design alternatives; to enhance, or at least restore, the livelihoods of all displaced persons in real terms relative to pre-project levels; and to improve the standards of living of the displaced poor and other vulnerable groups.

This document is to ensure the environmental soundness and sustainability of projects and to support the integration of environmental considerations into the project decision-making process

The term Indigenous Peoples is used in a generic sense to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: (i) self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; (ii) collective attachment to geographically distinct habitats or ancestral territories in the project area and to the natural resources in these habitats and territories; (iii) customary cultural, economic, social, or political institutions that are separate from those of the dominant society and c

This document is to ensure the environmental soundness and sustainability of projects and to support the integration of environmental considerations into the project decision-making process

This document is to ensure the environmental soundness and sustainability of projects and to support the integration of environmental considerations into the project decision-making process