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The government of Argentina and the
World Bank desire to improve the efficiency and results of
the environmental and social outcomes of jointly financed
development projects. As part of a workshop in November 2010
attended by officials of the Ministry of Economy and Public
Finance of Argentina, World Bank staff, and representatives
of implementing units of projects being co-financed by the
Bank, several issues with regard to the implementation of
the World Bank safeguard policies and the existing Argentine
environmental and social management regulatory frameworks
were identified. The workshop agreed to conduct a technical
study of the regulatory consistency between the Bank
safeguard policies and Argentina s environmental and social
legislation to serve as a vehicle for dialogue between the
Bank and the government of Argentina in order to strengthen
joint strategies that address environmental and social
issues in development projects. The technical study involved
the following (and the corresponding report section):
comparison between the principles of eight of the World Bank
safeguard Operational Policies (OPs) and the national and
provincial regulatory frameworks in force, using the
framework for equivalence analysis contained in Bank OP 4.02
as a guideline for the assessment (section two);
identification of some representative key issues or lessons
learned related to the operational principles of Bank
safeguard policies in Argentine projects based on the
experience of the Argentine implementing units and the Bank
(section three); development of strategies to move forward
more effectively and efficiently in Bank-financed projects
in Argentina related to environmental and social management
and more broadly to non-Bank-financed projects and also
projects in other countries (section four); synthesis or
conclusions on opportunities to promote more effective and
efficient environmental and social management in development
projects (section five).
