Approx. value of the contract:
PKR 4,490,824/-
Country:
Pakistan
Location within Country:
Punjab
Name of Client:
The Urban Unit
Duration of assignment (months):
5 Months
Start date (month/year):
July 2019
Completion date (month/year):
November 2019
Narrative description of Project:
The province of Punjab has a highly fragmented landscape with a lot of pressure from development activities and alternative land use. In order to realize the comparative geographical potentials & advantages and achieve inclusive and rapid economic growth, the Planning and Development Department, Government of the Punjab embarked upon the process of development of Punjab Spatial Strategy (PSS) through World Bank funded Punjab Jobs & Competitiveness program (J&C P for R). Due to the significance of this task, it has been assigned to the Urban Unit, Punjab.
PSS provides a long term comprehensive development roadmap for the province of Punjab. It entails assessment of the potential growth corridors and growth nodes (Including identifying cities
with the highest potential and the constraints standing in the way of their potential), to prioritize and coordinate investments around them. It also presents a visual of an environmentally sustainable structure of the Punjab while focusing on protecting and improving physical and biological resources.
The objective of assignment to undertake SEA so that environmental, climate change and socio-economic factors, along with gender aspects, are appropriately integrated and main streamed in the Punjab Spatial Strategy as to achieve Punjab’s development agenda in a sustainable manner.
Description of actual services provided in the assignment:
Following were the services provided under this assignment:
- Established detailed outline of the contents, main objectives of the Punjab Spatial Strategy and relationship with other relevant plans and programmes
- Determined relevant aspects of the current state of the environment and the likely evolution thereof without implementation of the Strategy.
- Analyzed environmental characteristics of areas likely to be significantly affected.
- Identified existing environmental problems that are relevant to the Strategy including, in particular, those relating to any areas of a particular environmental importance, such as areas designated under the Punjab Environmental Protection Act.
- Determined likely significant effects on the environment including on issues such as biodiversity, population, human health, fauna, flora, soil, water, air, climatic factors, material assets, cultural heritage including architectural and archaeological heritage, landscape and the interrelationship between the above factors.
- Recommended measures envisaged to prevent, reduce and as fully as possible offset any significant adverse effects on the environment caused by implementing the strategy
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