How do the standards protect vulnerable groups other than Indigenous Peoples?
Performance Standard 1 defines vulnerable groups (those who may be affected disproportionately by the project by virtue of their gender, ethnicity, religion, culture, dependence on a unique natural resource for their livelihood’s, or other characteristics) and requires that they should be identified in the Social and Environmental Assessment of a project, that mitigation measures should be adopted to ensure that adverse impacts do not fall disproportionately on these groups, and that they share in project benefits like other groups. Guidance Note 5, footnote 5, also provides further guidance on vulnerable groups in the context of involuntary resettlement.
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