How does the Bank ensure social and environmental concerns are taken into account?
The Quality Assurance and Compliance Unit (QACU) ensures that the Bank’s social and environmental safeguard policies are implemented consistently across the Bank. It has the power to prevent projects from being approved if they fail to meet the safeguard test. For more information, see www.worldbank.org/safeguards. Additionally, an independent external advisory group (EAG) on Forests Strategy implementation meets regularly to review the effectiveness of the forest program and implementation of the forest strategy and advises the president of the World Bank on forest-related matters.
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