The term gender-based violence highlights gender dimension of the violence and the root cause of the violence. However the Pacific, gender-based violence is often used against women and girls to adopt a gender-neutral approach to the issue.
Effective waste management is a key challenge facing Small Island Developing States. The remoteness of many of these islands and their vulnerability to climate change make the handling and transport of waste both expensive and difficult. The challenge is particularly acute for hazardous waste.
Waste disposal landfill, illegal dumping and backyard burning are favored in most cases, at the expense of more sustainable waste treatment technologies such as composting, anaerobic digesting and recycling.
Promote the sustainable use of resources, including energy, water and raw materials. Avoid or minimize adverse impacts on human health and the environment caused by pollution from project activities.
EHS guidelines on waste management and hazardous materials management specify the guidance all along the waste value chain from waste prevention, generation, separation, storage, collection, transportation, recycling, treatment and landfill. The guidelines provide the direction on how the WB projects should design the project activities and infrastructures and how to safely manage general and hazardous waste.
It is important that data developed/discovered during Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) process is made available to the EIA officers in country to add to the database for their future use and that of other EIA practitioners
Communities and individuals who believe that they are adversely affected by a World Bank supported project may submit complaints: Project-level grievance redress mechanisms (GRMs), World banks GRM and World Bank's
To provide a doorway through which Pacific islands protected area practitioners can share expertise and benefit from opportunities. To provide up-to-date PA coverage data relevant information and management tools to support protected area decision making and planning.
