The Project Administration Manual (PAM) outlines under safeguards monitoring and reporting that the Borrower shall do the following or cause the Project Executing Agency to do the following:

• Prepare and submit semi-annual Safeguards Monitoring Reports (SMR) to ADB and disclose relevant information from such reports to affected persons promptly upon submission;
• If any unanticipated environmental and/or social risks and impacts arise during construction, implementation or operation of the Project that were not considered in the IEE, the DDR/resettlement plan promptly inform ADB of the occurrence of such risks or impacts, with detailed description of the events and proposed corrective
action plan; and
• Report any actual or potential breach of compliance with the measures and requirements set forth in the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) or the DDR/resettlement plan promptly after becoming aware of the breach.

This is the eighteenth SMR prepared for the VISSP. It complies with the ADB’s Safeguard Policy Statement 2009 (SPS) and Access to Public Information Policy 2018 as well as government requirements for projects, with regards to implementation, monitoring and information disclosure.