Public works under Ethiopia’s sixth Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP 6) will be ineligible for financing and implementation in areas confirmed or suspected to contain unexploded ordnance or landmines until authorized mine-action agencies issue written clearance, according to a newly disclosed environmental and social safeguards framework.
The final PSNP framework document disclosed by the Ministry of Agriculture identifies unexploded ordnance (UXO), landmines and abandoned explosive ordnance as serious risks to public-works beneficiaries, project workers and communities in conflict-affected and post-conflict woredas. It requires proposed projects in or near suspected contamination zones to be excluded until clearance certification is issued by authorized bodies, including the Ethiopian Mine Action Office, woreda peace and security offices or the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS).
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Source: The Reporter Ethiopia
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