The objective of this project is to advance good practices around environmental and social (ES) safeguards and promote the adoption and application of IFI standards among client countries and new partners with a focus on the Asia region. The activities will include the conduct of gap analyses, development of a toolkit, and organization of a community of practice and capacity building events for ES safeguards. The MCDF grant will also help facilitate the preparation of projects with high ES safeguards standards in both the sovereign and non-sovereign space for targeted clients.

The project will help improve institutional capacity of client countries and new partners in implementing IFI standards.