ADB ETESP – Environmental Fact Sheet

Name of Project: Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Project (ETESP)

Primary Partners: BRR and various Provincial Departments
Main Project Goals: To help rebuild tsunami and earthquake affected regions and support their
economic revival to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Its
purpose is to (i) facilitate economic revival in the affected regions by
restoring livelihoods; and (ii) alleviate constraints due to the lack of adequate
public goods and facilities by restoring essential public services and
rebuilding infrastructure.
Budget: ETESP is financed by a $291 million grant from by the Asian Tsunami Fund1
and a $3.5 million grant from the Government of the Netherlands.
Key Sectors: To meet the critical rehabilitation and reconstruction needs in a flexible
manner, ETESP is designed as a multisector project facility with 12
components under five principal sector groupings:
Livelihoods Agriculture
Fisheries
Livelihoods and Microfinance
Social Services Health
Education
Community Infrastructure Rural Water Supply and Sanitation
Housing
Irrigation
Physical Infrastructure Roads
Power
Spatial Planning
Fiduciary Oversight Fiduciary Guidance
Environmental Aspects:
Mainstreaming Environmental sustainability is mainstreamed into all sectors and subprojects.
For example:
Fisheries - rehabilitation of “green zone”, mangrove planting
- promotion of environmentally sustainable
aquaculture and capture fisheries methods
- improved management of fish landing sites and
fuel depots
Agriculture - rehabilitation of tsunami affected agricultural land
Housing - houses equipped with double chamber septic tanks
and leach fields to protect human health
- composting facilities provided
- use of timber minimized
Road & Bridges
- road rehabilitation incorporates mitigation
measures such as dust control and extensive
landscaping and re-vegetation

Rural WatSan - locally implemented small scale facilities to serve

poor communities with limited or no existing services

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This includes a $1.0 million contribution from the Government of Luxemburg to the Asian Tsunami Fund for financing irrigation
activities in Nias.

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 Spatial Planning
The Spatial Planning and Environmental Management (SPEM) component
of ETESP is undertaking spatial planning for a total of 63 Kecematan (sub-
districts) on Aceh’s west coast and on Nias. The spatial frameworks and
action plans focus on physical and social infrastructure needs and on
environmental risks and constraints. Initially the work was focused on a
narrow tsunami-affected coastal zone, but was subsequently expanded to
include the entire Kecamatans with a greater emphasis on overall
development. ETESP is also supporting the development of Kabupaten
(district) spatial frameworks across the east coast of Aceh. This assistance
works in tandem with BRR's Infrastructure Reconstruction Enabling Program
(IREP) funded by the Multi Donor Fund (MDF) to strengthen institutional
capacity and identify key infrastructure projects which can be considered for
funding through the MDF Infrastructure Reconstruction Financing Facility
(IRFF) and by the provincial and district governments using local funds.
At the village level ETESP has supported the preparation of spatial plans for
73 heavily damaged villages in Aceh. These plans facilitate the
reconstruction of houses and village infrastructure. In addition, ETESP
assisted in the preparation of a development plan for Labuy, a new urban
settlement close to Banda Aceh.
In the area of natural resource management, ETESP is supporting a team of
forestry and legal experts from UNSYIAH to develop a conservation Qanun
consistent with Act No. 11, 2006 on the Government of Aceh (LOGA), and is
also developing a Forest Information System (FIS) to support sustainable
forest management and to outline forest zoning recommendations and
alternatives in NAD.
Environmental Assessment
The ADB and GoI are committed to implementing the reconstruction and
rehabilitation process in an environmentally sustainable manner, and
undertaking environmental assessments of proposed subprojects is one key
mechanism to accomplish this. The ADB has its own internal environmental
assessment procedures, and the Aceh-Nias AMDAL Decree No. 308 (2005)
defines the Government’s requirements, as managed in Aceh by
BAPEDALDA NAD and in Nias by BAPEDALDA SUMUT.
Given its emergency response nature ETESP is generally only undertaking
environmental Category B subprojects. A comparative analysis of the
environmental assessment requirements of the ADB and of the GoI was
undertaken which indicated that the requirements of a Category B IEE fully
meets or exceeds the requirements of an Appendix II UKL/UPL (Table 1).
Based on this agreements were signed between the ADB and
BAPEDALDA's NAD and SUMUT for the joint review of Category B
subprojects. Under these harmonization agreements a subproject IEE
report, submitted simultaneously to both ADB and the relevant
BAPEDALDA, forms the basis of the environmental review process, thereby
avoiding time-consuming duplicate reporting processes and reducing
approval delays.
As of August 2008 a total of 246 ETESP subprojects have undergone an
assessment through 164 IEE reports and have received BAPEDALDA
NAD/SUMUT and ADB approval (Table 2). The analysis indicates that most
subprojects are expected to result in moderate to significant environmental
benefits, and with the proper application of mitigation measures potential
negative impacts which have been identified can be eliminated or minimized.
Mitigation measures are presented in ETESP-wide Standard Environmental
Clauses and in subproject-specific Environmental Management Plans
(EMPs).

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 Table 1: Comparison of ADB and GOI Environmental Assessment Requirements
ADB Aceh-Nias AMDAL Decree 308
Project Project
Requirement Requirement
Category Category
←generally
A EIA Appendix I ANDAL (EIA)
equivalent to→
UKL and UPL
IEE (Initial
←generally (Env. Mang. Plan
B Environmental 2 Appendix II
equivalent to → and Env.
Examination)
Monitoring Plan)
Consideration
given to ←generally
C NA NA
environmental equivalent to→
issues
Environmental
←generally
FI management NA NA
system equivalent to→

Table 2: Status of Approvals of IEEs by ETESP Sector, August 2008

Sector Initial Environmental Examinations (IEEs)

Number IEEs Approved Number Subprojects covered
by Approved IEEs3

Agriculture 57 77

Fisheries 17 17

Health 5 5

Education 5 5
Community Water Supply
7 7
and Health
Housing 30 30

Irrigation 30 92

Roads and Bridges 6 6

Power 7 7

SPEM NA NA
Livelihoods and
NA NA
Microfinance
Fiduciary NA NA

Total Approved 164 246

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IEEs meet or exceed the requirements of an Appendix II UKL/UPL.
3
In some sectors IEEs may cover one or more subprojects. Does not include subprojects with reviewed IEEs which were
subsequently cancelled.

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 Environmental Monitoring
The ETESP environmental safeguards process does not end with the
approval of a subproject IEE. It is critical that during subproject
implementation the environmental mitigation measures presented in the
EMPs and in the ETESP Standard Environmental Clauses are appropriately
adopted. Environmental monitoring is an effective tool to ensure that
mitigations are being implemented effectively. This is a requirement of ADB
as well BAPEDALDA NAD and BAPEDALDA SUMUT.

Environmental monitoring and reporting is ongoing in most ETESP

Components under active implementation, the exceptions being those
Components without physical works (SPEM, Fiduciary and Livelihoods and
Microfinance) and the Power Component. For the Power Component human
resource and financial constraints have limited the ability of the Satker and
consultants to undertake monitoring to date. To address this deficiency, a
Component wide environmental inspection mission and reporting will be
undertaken in late 2008.

Environmental Capacity Building

Although not a capacity building project per se, ETESP is providing on the
job environmental training in environmental impact assessment in most of its
sectors. In addition ETESP is providing a long term National AMDAL Advisor
to BAPEDALDA NAD.
Environmental Tools
ETESP is developing environmental planning tools such as: Guide to
ETESP Environmental Assessment Requirements; various Kecamatan
Action Plans; a NAD Environmental Sensitivity Map; and the Westcoast
Freshwater Ecosystem Survey.

Contact Persons and For Further Information:

For general matters, please contact:

Pieter M. Smidt
Head of ADB Extended Mission in Sumatera (EMS)
Jl. Cut Nyak Dhien 375, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Phone: +62 651-41429, Fax: +62 651-45773
Email: psmidt@adb.org

For environmental matters, please contact:

Ashley J. Bansgrove
ETESP Environmental Safeguards Advisor
Jl. Cut Nyak Dhien 375, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Phone: +62 651-41429, Fax: +62 651-45773, HP: +62 (0)81 360 556061
Email: abansgro@uvic.ca
or
Budi Prati
ETESP Environmental Safeguards Advisor
Jl. Cut Nyak Dhien 375, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Phone: +62 651-41429, Fax: +62 651-45773, HP: +62 (0)816 186 1563
Email: prati_budi@yahoo.com or bprati@adb.org

Please also visit the environment section of the ETESP website:

http://www.adb.org/Projects/ETESP/etesp-environment.asp