As part of a scheduled update, the Safeguarding Principles and Requirements have been updated to align with the Paris Agreement provisions and recent updates of the underlying environmental and social framework, e.g., UNDP, UNEP, IFC and FAO. In addition, the revised draft further strengthens the safeguards and requirements for core principles such as human rights, gender equality and women's empowerment, Indigenous people, labour rights and working conditions. Furthermore, the draft introduces a checklist for risk assessment for ease of implementation and application to help project developers.
We are also developing a safeguarding assessment module as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) tool to consolidate the requirements further.