Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP)

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1. The United Nations Children's Fund, World Health Organization, and United Nations for Project Services (hereinafter UNICEF, WHO, and UNOPS or the Recipients) shall jointly implement the Yemen Emergency Human Capital Commitment Project (YEHCP) (the Project) with the involvement of selected implementing partners, i.e., local agencies that the Recipient may engage to facilitate implementation of the Project. The International Development Association (hereinafter the Association) has agreed to provide financing for the Project.
2. UNICEF, WHO, and UNOPS shall implement material measures and actions so that the Project is implemented in accordance with the Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs). This Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) sets out material measures and actions, to be carried out or caused to be carried out by the Recipients, including the timeframes of the actions and measures, institutional, staffing, training, monitoring and reporting arrangements, grievance management and the environmental and social assessments and instruments to be prepared or updated, disclosed, consulted, adopted and implemented under the ESCP and the ESSs, all in a manner acceptable to the Association.
3. UNICEF, WHO, and UNOPS shall also comply with the provisions of any other environmental and social (E&S) documents required under the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) and referred to in this ESCP, such as the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF, Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs), Resettlement Framework (RF), Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs), Security Management Plan (SMP), Labor Management Procedures (LMP), Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Action Plan and Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) and the timelines specified in those E&S documents.
4. UNICEF, WHO, and UNOPS are responsible for compliance with all requirements of the ESCP even when implementation of specific measures and actions is conducted by implementing partners as referenced in 1 above. UNICEF, WHO and UNOPS will require Implementing Partners to implement measures and actions specified in  ESCP and ESF through their contractual relationship with the Implementing Partners, monitoring of Implementing Partners’ compliance, reporting to the Association, and cooperation with the Implementing Partners to remedy any instances of non-compliance identified.
5. Implementation of the material measures and actions set out in this ESCP shall be monitored and reported to the Association by UNICEF, WHO, and UNOPS as required by the ESCP and the conditions of the legal agreements, and the Association shall monitor and assess progress and completion of the material measures and actions throughout implementation of the project.
6. As agreed by the Association and UNICEF, WHO, and UNOPS, this ESCP may be revised from time to time during project implementation, to reflect adaptive management of project changes and unforeseen circumstances or in response to assessment of project performance conducted under the ESCP itself. In such circumstances, UNICEF, WHO, and UNOPS shall agree to the changes with the Association and shall update the ESCP to reflect such changes. Agreement on changes to the ESCP shall be documented through the exchange of letters signed between the Association and the Recipients. The Recipients shall promptly disclose the updated ESCP.
7. Where Project changes, unforeseen circumstances, or Project performance result in changes to the risks and impacts during Project implementation UNICEF, WHO and UNOPS may re-allocate Grant funds, as agreed with Association, to be able to implement actions and measures to address such risks and impacts.

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