Environmental and Social Safeguards

The WWF is run at a local level by the following offices...

Scope

Provide a system for responding to and resolving concerns raised by communities and stakeholders on any negative social or other impacts related to WWF conservation work. The Environmental and Social Safeguards are divided into Process and Substantive Standards meant to provide a checklist against which we review and analyze the impact proposed project activities could have on local communities and the environment. There are three procedural standards, and six substantive standards and various cross cutting issues.

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Three procedural safeguards that are applied to all place-based activities
→ Six substantive safeguards that are applied where relevance to the place-based activities is identified through safeguards screening
→ A list of excluded activities
→ Five cross-cutting issues where intersectionality with the place-based activities is also analyzed in safeguards screening.

The cross-cutting issues that form part of the safeguards screening process are human rights, gender equality and women’s rights, children’s rights, conflict-sensitivity (including human-wildlife conflict) and climate change.

NO RETALITATION
WWF-Pakistan strongly disapproves of and will not tolerate any form of retaliation against those who report
concerns in good faith. Any WWF employee who engages in such retaliation will be subject to discipline up to
and including termination. WWF-Pakistan will take all feasible actions to protect reporters against retaliation.
Anyone who has made a report of suspicious conduct of a WWF employee and who subsequently believes he
or she has been subjected to retaliation of any kind should immediately report it by the same channels as
noted herein