Outcome of World Bank Group Support The WBG’s emphasis on environmental management has been highly relevant, and it has been one of the major players in promoting the agenda in Peru. Several factors have led to increased attention to environmental management, including growing media coverage and public awareness of the need for stronger environmental management (particularly in the extractive industries sector), international pressures arising in the context of free trade agreements, and the active engagement of other international agencies. In this context, the WBG played an important role in providing the analytical underpinnings for progress in the sector, raising awareness, and supporting specific actions to improve environmental management. The prominence of the WBG increased during the second CAS period, especially through the publication of the unusually detailed and well-researched Country Environmental Analysis and policy notes and the preparation of the Environmental DPL. The Bank’s analyses and
IFC and, to a lesser extent, MIGA played an important role in assisting some large private sector projects in critical sectors, such as mining and agribusiness, comply with international social and environmental standards. Through its environmental safeguard policies, the WBG also opened up entry points for civil society and community engagement in project-related environmental and social-related decision making.
recommendations were used for the preparation of the important environmental legislation, the creation of the Ministry of Environment, and ongoing efforts to prepare future regulations, guidelines, and institutional reforms. The WBG’s environmental and social performance standards also had important demonstration effects.
water pollution, the three carbon offset projects are delivering emission reductions at expected rates. The Lima Transport Project is on track to achieve its objective of reducing air pollution in Lima’s main transport corridor by 20–25 percent. The Lima Water Rehabilitation Project has mostly achieved its target of providing water and sanitation services to 130,000 poor households in Lima.27
IEG’s evaluations of the Yanacocha gold mining project and Peru LNG gas pipeline project, both highly prominent and visible category A projects, found that environmental and social performance was satisfactory.
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The results of specific Bank activities addressing environmental challenges have varied. In reducing air and
The Bank’s analyses and recommendations were used for the preparation of the important environmental legislation, the creation of the Ministry of Environment, and ongoing efforts to prepare future regulations, guidelines and institutional reforms. 40
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As to natural resource management, Bank irrigation and rural development projects helped improve irrigation and agricultural practices, as well as soil conservation and reforestation at the micro-catchment level. In the fisheries sector, the recent Environmental DPL supported long overdue policies to regulate and enforce fishing quotas.
Peru: Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003–09