{"title":"Project E&S and Responsible Business Conduct Assessment · Salient One","canonicalUrl":"https://salientone.eu/social-impact/project-assessment","publishedAt":"2026-10-08","updatedAt":"2026-10-14","frameworkVersion":"ifc-2012-s1-2026-10-08-v1","templateVersion":"v3","practitionerReview":{"status":"pending","reviewer":null,"reviewedAt":null},"scope":"Original Salient One project environmental and social prompts referencing IFC Performance Standards (2012), OECD due diligence guidance (2018) and UN Guiding Principles (2011); global applicability with Ukraine examples.","stages":[{"name":"Project E&S scoping","detail":"Describe activities, location, workers, contractors, land and communities. Review relevant IFC Performance Standards and retain unknown answers."},{"name":"Social-impact register","detail":"Record impact pathways and affected groups, severity, scale, scope and ability to remedy. Keep evidence confidence and organisational risks separate."},{"name":"Stakeholder and engagement planner","detail":"Identify affectedness, vulnerability, concerns and participation barriers. Include groups with limited influence and assign engagement responsibilities."},{"name":"Evidence and gap checklist","detail":"Distinguish public guidance, regional context and project evidence. Record provenance, geographic coverage, study periods, retrieval dates and review status."},{"name":"Mitigation and monitoring plan","detail":"Assign owners, dates, indicators and review triggers. Link actions to impacts and record evidence before marking an action verified."},{"name":"Responsible business conduct review","detail":"Record policy ownership, business relationships, decisions, communication and grievance arrangements. Review information gaps across the six OECD due diligence steps and responses to actual or potential harm."}],"standards":[{"id":"PS1","title":"Assessment and management","guidance":"Define the project, identify affected people and impacts, consider alternatives, engage stakeholders and maintain management and monitoring arrangements.","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2012/ifc-performance-standard-1"},{"id":"PS2","title":"Labour and working conditions","guidance":"Assess employment conditions, worker safety, contractors and relevant primary supply-chain risks.","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2012/ifc-performance-standard-2"},{"id":"PS3","title":"Resource efficiency and pollution prevention","guidance":"Examine resources, emissions, waste and pollution using project-specific information and relevant EHS guidance.","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2012/ifc-performance-standard-3"},{"id":"PS4","title":"Community health, safety and security","guidance":"Assess impacts on community health, safety, infrastructure, services and security arrangements, including vulnerable groups.","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2012/ifc-performance-standard-4"},{"id":"PS5","title":"Land acquisition and involuntary resettlement","guidance":"Examine physical and economic displacement, access restrictions and formal and informal livelihood uses. Prioritise avoidance and assess alternatives.","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2012/ifc-performance-standard-5"},{"id":"PS6","title":"Biodiversity and living natural resources","guidance":"Identify potential habitat and ecosystem-service impacts and commission qualified site studies where needed.","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2012/ifc-performance-standard-6"},{"id":"PS7","title":"Indigenous Peoples","guidance":"Establish applicability through qualified local assessment and appropriate engagement. Country location alone cannot establish applicability.","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2012/ifc-performance-standard-7"},{"id":"PS8","title":"Cultural heritage","guidance":"Assess tangible and intangible heritage, consult affected communities and establish appropriate procedures for discoveries during works.","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2012/ifc-performance-standard-8"}],"questions":[{"id":"workers","standard":"PS2","label":"Will the project employ workers, including temporary or migrant workers?","evidence":"Workforce profile, employment terms, worker consultation and grievance arrangements."},{"id":"contractors","standard":"PS2","label":"Will contractors or labour suppliers work on the project?","evidence":"Contractor labour arrangements, oversight and worker safety evidence."},{"id":"supplyChain","standard":"PS2","label":"Will primary suppliers provide goods or materials for the project?","evidence":"Primary supplier records and checks for child labour, forced labour and serious safety risks."},{"id":"resourcesPollution","standard":"PS3","label":"Could activities affect resource use, water, air, waste or pollution?","evidence":"Resource balance, emissions/waste information and relevant sector EHS studies."},{"id":"communities","standard":"PS4","label":"Could nearby people experience changes in health, safety, access or services?","evidence":"Social baseline, community consultation and health/safety assessment."},{"id":"security","standard":"PS4","label":"Will public or private security personnel protect the project?","evidence":"Security arrangements, conduct, training and community complaint processes."},{"id":"land","standard":"PS5","label":"Will the project acquire land or change rights to use land or resources?","evidence":"Land/access records and identification of formal and informal users."},{"id":"physicalDisplacement","standard":"PS5","label":"Could people lose housing or have to move?","evidence":"Census, housing/tenure baseline and displacement alternatives assessment."},{"id":"economicDisplacement","standard":"PS5","label":"Could livelihoods, income, livelihoods access or informal land use be disrupted without relocation?","evidence":"Livelihood and access baseline, including informal users and seasonal activities."},{"id":"habitats","standard":"PS6","label":"Could activities affect habitats, biodiversity or ecosystem services used by people?","evidence":"Site ecological baseline and specialist habitat/ecosystem-services assessment."},{"id":"indigenousPeoples","standard":"PS7","label":"Could Indigenous Peoples with relevant collective attachments or distinct institutions be affected?","evidence":"Qualified applicability assessment and culturally appropriate engagement; establish applicability locally."},{"id":"heritage","standard":"PS8","label":"Could works, excavation or access changes affect cultural heritage or community cultural practices?","evidence":"Heritage assessment, community consultation and chance-find arrangements."}],"answerValues":["unknown","yes","no"],"categoryGuidance":{"A":"Potential significant adverse environmental or social impacts that may be diverse, irreversible or unprecedented.","B":"Potential limited adverse impacts, generally site-specific, largely reversible and addressable through mitigation.","C":"Minimal or no adverse environmental or social impacts, supported by adequate project evidence.","undetermined":"The assessor has not established a provisional category. Record information needed to decide."},"references":[{"id":"ifc","name":"IFC Performance Standards and Guidance Notes","edition":"2012 standards; guidance notes updated 2021","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Global; project applicability requires assessment","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2012/ifc-performance-standards","limitation":"Versioned references and original Salient One prompts; no certification or compliance determination."},{"id":"oecd-rbc","name":"OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct","edition":"2018","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Operations, supply chains and other business relationships","url":"https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2018/02/oecd-due-diligence-guidance-for-responsible-business-conduct_c669bd57.html","limitation":"Salient One organises project environmental and social due diligence records. This is not an OECD alignment assessment or coverage of every RBC issue."},{"id":"ehs","name":"World Bank Group general and industry EHS guidelines","edition":"Document-specific editions","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Global; select the relevant industry and activities","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/general-environmental-health-and-safety-guidelines","limitation":"Expert interpretation and site-specific applicability are required."},{"id":"esms","name":"IFC ESMS implementation resources","edition":"Public handbook and toolkit; document-specific dates","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Global","url":"https://www.ifc.org/en/insights-reports/2015/publications-handbook-esms-general","limitation":"Reference links; use original project-specific management arrangements."},{"id":"iom","name":"IOM DTM Ukraine","edition":"Select and record report round and survey dates","kind":"regional_context","coverage":"Ukraine; report-specific geographic coverage","url":"https://dtm.iom.int/ukraine","limitation":"Survey estimates support context; do not establish site conditions or identify affected individuals."},{"id":"hdx","name":"HDX HAPI dataset documentation","edition":"Dataset-specific observation periods","kind":"regional_context","coverage":"Dataset-specific country and administrative coverage","url":"https://hdx-hapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/","limitation":"Manual references only; verify the underlying dataset, coverage and licence. No active Salient One HDX feed."},{"id":"eia","name":"Ukraine EcoSystem environmental registers","edition":"Project-specific records","kind":"project_evidence","coverage":"Ukraine","url":"https://eco.gov.ua/registers","limitation":"Select the actual project record; access restrictions and missing records must be stated."},{"id":"iaia","name":"IAIA social impact assessment guidance","edition":"2015","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Global","url":"https://iaia.org/social-impact-assessment-guidance/","limitation":"Reference link and original Salient One prompts; do not adapt or redistribute the licensed document."},{"id":"ungp","name":"UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights","edition":"2011","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Global","url":"https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Publications/GuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR_EN.pdf","limitation":"Prioritise severe impacts using scale, scope and remediability; project evidence remains necessary."},{"id":"iso31000","name":"ISO 31000 risk management","edition":"Public description","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Organisation and project risk management","url":"https://www.iso.org/iso-31000-risk-management.html","limitation":"Guidance, not a certifiable standard. No restricted clauses are reproduced."},{"id":"iso26000","name":"ISO 26000 social responsibility","edition":"Public description","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Organisational social responsibility","url":"https://www.iso.org/iso-26000-social-responsibility.html","limitation":"Guidance, not a certifiable standard. No restricted clauses are reproduced."},{"id":"iso14001","name":"ISO 14001 environmental management","edition":"Public description; verify applicable edition","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Environmental management systems","url":"https://www.iso.org/iso-14001-environmental-management.html","limitation":"Independent management-system certification is separate from this assessment."},{"id":"iso45001","name":"ISO 45001 occupational health and safety","edition":"Public description","kind":"guidance","coverage":"Occupational health and safety management systems","url":"https://www.iso.org/iso-45001-occupational-health-and-safety.html","limitation":"Independent management-system certification is separate from this assessment."}],"supportRules":{"methodVersion":"s1-assessment-support-2026-10-09-v1","countryTopics":{"governance":{"standards":["PS1"],"question":"What local permitting, contractor oversight and grievance arrangements need project-specific verification?"},"corruption":{"standards":["PS1"],"question":"How will procurement, consultation and grievance processes remain transparent and accessible?"},"inform_risk":{"standards":["PS1","PS4"],"question":"What site-specific emergency arrangements and community-service vulnerabilities need a current baseline?"},"conflict_events_30d":{"standards":["PS1","PS4"],"question":"How could changing security conditions affect access, community safety and engagement? Verify the site and reporting period locally."},"war_events_90d":{"standards":["PS1","PS4"],"question":"What local security and emergency evidence is needed? Media event shares do not establish events at the project site."},"fragile_states_index":{"standards":["PS1","PS4"],"question":"Which local services, institutions and affected groups need additional consultation and baseline evidence?"},"press_freedom":{"standards":["PS1"],"question":"What barriers to safe participation and access to information should engagement planning investigate?"},"hdi":{"standards":["PS1","PS4"],"question":"Which locally affected groups and participation barriers need identification? A national index cannot identify vulnerable individuals."},"forced_labour_exposure":{"standards":["PS2"],"question":"Verify primary supplier identities, goods, recruitment practices and child/forced-labour controls using current project-specific evidence."},"environmental_performance":{"standards":["PS1","PS3","PS6"],"question":"What site-specific pollution and ecological baselines are needed? National environmental performance does not establish site conditions."},"nd_gain":{"standards":["PS1","PS3","PS4"],"question":"Which climate hazards, resource needs and community services require site-specific resilience studies?"}},"sourcingTopics":{"child_labour":{"standards":["PS2"],"question":"Verify age controls, workforce arrangements and primary suppliers; retain the source-specific child-labour category."},"forced_labour":{"standards":["PS2"],"question":"Verify recruitment, freedom of movement, employment terms and supplier traceability."},"tvpra":{"standards":["PS2"],"question":"Check the original good-specific child/forced-labour category and obtain primary supplier evidence. A country-good observation is not a project finding."},"customs_detention":{"standards":["PS2"],"question":"Check the original CBP action and current status. Distinguish reasonable-but-inconclusive WRO evidence from a Finding; verify project supplier relevance."},"conflict_mineral":{"standards":["PS1","PS2"],"question":"Obtain supply-chain origin, traceability and human-rights evidence. This is a fixed Salient One 2021–2024 review-priority assessment, not an OECD designation."},"deforestation":{"standards":["PS3","PS6"],"question":"Verify land use, resource sourcing and site ecological evidence. The World Bank forest-area trend is a Salient One derivation, not GFW tree-cover loss."},"eudr_commodity":{"standards":["PS1","PS6"],"question":"Check product scope, origin and current official requirements. The Salient One country–commodity review flag is not an EU benchmark or a severity finding."},"product_safety":{"standards":["PS4"],"question":"Verify product identity, notice applicability and community exposure. A source notification or Salient One routing band does not establish a project impact."}},"interpretation":"Original Salient One investigation prompts. Source observations are regional context; never change project answers, impact significance or assessor categories automatically. Missing coverage is unknown. Accepted references start unreviewed."},"responsibleBusinessConduct":{"methodVersion":"s1-rbc-2026-10-14-v1","boundary":"This review organises assessor-entered information. Recorded information is not verified implementation, an OECD alignment assessment or a compliance determination. Country ratings and sanctions results cannot establish how a business affects people or the environment.","steps":[{"id":"embed","title":"Policy and responsibility","prompt":"Record the policy commitment, accountable owner and operations, suppliers or other relationships covered.","tab":"RBC review"},{"id":"assess","title":"Identify and assess impacts","prompt":"Establish actual or potential harm, affected groups and the business’s involvement using reviewed project evidence. Prioritise severe human-rights impacts; low likelihood or confidence does not cancel severity.","tab":"Impacts"},{"id":"prevent","title":"Prevent and mitigate harm","prompt":"Record prevention or cessation measures and link each impact to actions with owners and dates. Use leverage when harm is linked through a business relationship.","tab":"Actions"},{"id":"track","title":"Track implementation and outcomes","prompt":"Use indicators, review triggers and verification evidence to assess results for affected people. Finishing an action does not establish that harm has been addressed.","tab":"Actions"},{"id":"communicate","title":"Communicate with affected people","prompt":"Record the audience, information, accessible method, timing and responsibility for communicating findings and responses. Protect sensitive information and participants.","tab":"Stakeholders"},{"id":"remedy","title":"Grievances and remedy","prompt":"Record accessible grievance channels and protection against retaliation. Where the business caused or contributed to actual harm, record provision of or cooperation in remedy with affected people.","tab":"Impacts"}],"references":[{"name":"OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct","edition":"2018","url":"https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2018/02/oecd-due-diligence-guidance-for-responsible-business-conduct_c669bd57.html"},{"name":"UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights","edition":"2011","url":"https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Publications/GuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR_EN.pdf"}],"involvementValues":["unknown","cause","contribute","directly_linked"],"occurrenceValues":["unknown","potential","actual"],"reviewMeaning":"Information gaps are prompts for assessor review, not a completeness score or finding. Low likelihood or confidence does not reduce human-rights severity. Private review records are not exposed by this reference or the public scoping API."},"workflow":{"methodVersion":"s1-due-diligence-2026-10-14-v1","steps":[{"id":"country","label":"Country risk","detail":"Review the operating or sourcing context and source dates."},{"id":"screening","label":"Sanctions","detail":"Screen actual counterparties and review candidate matches."},{"id":"review","label":"Project assessment","detail":"Assess impacts, assign actions and record the decision and follow-up."}],"continuity":"Working drafts autosave to browser recovery; signed-in drafts also sync privately with conflict checks. The save status identifies pending or failed saves. Report revisions are created explicitly. Project text, product terms and counterparty names are excluded from handoff URLs.","interpretation":"Country and sourcing observations are context. Screening summaries start unreviewed and do not establish identity or clearance. A sourcing origin may differ from project location; applying the selection to project scoping is explicit. The assessor records project findings, decisions and follow-up.","screeningFilter":"The workflow country does not automatically set the sanctions nationality/geography filter."},"interpretation":{"review_required":"PS1 management and assessment arrangements always require review.","potentially_relevant":"At least one yes answer identifies a potential trigger; this is not an applicability or compliance determination.","information_needed":"No yes trigger and at least one unknown answer; obtain evidence.","not_identified":"All current trigger answers are no; this does not establish compliance or absence of impacts."},"limits":["No automatic category, certification, IFC endorsement or compliance determination.","Guidance and regional context cannot replace project evidence.","Economic displacement and informal users are covered separately from relocation.","Evidence confidence does not reduce severity.","Financial-intermediary portfolio categorisation and document uploads are outside this release."],"privacy":"This reference contains public methodology only. 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