Activities performed:Led in planning the work and organizing the environmental team on the following: (1) For each bridge, the Consultant shall prepare an Initial Environmental Examination Report (IEE) that addresses the environmental impacts and management issues associated with and the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) that will be included in the IEE report. (2) The IEE shall be prepared in accordance with the requirements of the ADB's Safeguard Policy Statement (2009); and also the relevant legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan. (3) The environmental study should cover the following: (a) Provide information about the environmental setting of the project areas and the location of sensitive receptors as baseline data; (b) Provide information on potential impacts of the project and the characteristics of the impacts, magnitude, distribution, sensitive receptors and affected groups, and their duration. (c) Provide information on potential mitigation measures to minimize the impact including mitigation costs; and (d) Assess alternatives for the project considering costs and benefits in terms of financial, social, and environmental issues. (4) It is not anticipate that the designs proposed by the Consultants shall require any land acquisition or resettlement. Nevertheless the Consultant shall conduct a scoping exercise in project location to verify that no areas with land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) issues exist and/or indigenous people (IP) are affected. The exercise will include assessment on permanent and/or temporary LAR for associated facilities such as access roads, worker’s camps, dump sites, etc. (5) The Consultant shall prepare a poverty and social assessment in accordance with ADB’s Handbook for Poverty Reduction and Social Assessment and Guidelines for Gender Mainstreaming Categories of ADB Projects. The assessments aim to: (i) Determine the scope of poverty and social issues that will need to be addressed during the project design. (ii) Identify groups of people who will be beneficially or adversely affected by the project. (iii) Provide the broad characteristics of these groups and relevant sub-groups. (iv) Flag poverty and other social issues that need to be examined during the project design (including gender, child labour, resettlement, indigenous people, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking).
