Does the project plan include processes or mechanisms aimed at reducing reliance on pesticides?
Paragraph 1 of OP 4.09 identifies the primary strategy for pest management in Bank projects as the use of biological or environmental control methods, and reducing reliance on chemical pesticides. The second checklist in Appendix A provides examples of different methods that local Bank projects can use to reduce farmer reliance on chemical inputs. (Determining whether those methods are actually adopted and successful is the subject of a later section, “Tools for Evaluation of Project Implementation.”) 3. Do the project’s processes and mechanisms promote the use of pesticides? Bank-financed projects can be monitored and evaluated by not only looking at activities which directly promote biological and environmental control methods, but also by examining processes that might promote the use of pesticides (for example by supplying free or low cost pesticide packages to project farmers). The third checklist in Appendix A can be used to gather information on activities which promote the use
