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[ DOC.ARCHIVE.ESEC.001 ]

ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL
EXCLUSION CRITERIA

A mandatory screening gate applied before land acquisition, contract awarding, equipment procurement, or network energization. Uses a three-tier decision framework.

[ RED ]

REJECT

Immediate rejection of prohibited, illegal, or high-risk sites, counterparties, or practices.

[ AMBER ]

HOLD / REFER

Temporary hold pending specialist studies, additional data, regulatory permits, or formal DisCo/REA written clearances.

[ GREEN ]

PROCEED

Passed eligibility screening. Cleared for site-specific environmental and social risk management.

KEY EXCLUSIONS

group

LABOUR & HUMAN RIGHTS

  • Forced labour
  • Debt bondage
  • Human trafficking
  • Child labour (minimum age: 18)
  • Worker discrimination
  • Abuse of power
landscape

LAND & RELOCATION

  • Illegal forced evictions
  • Uncompensated physical/economic displacement
  • Unresolved land boundary/tenure disputes
  • Coercive Voluntary Land Donation (VLD)
park

PROTECTED HABITATS

  • Legally protected conservation areas
  • UNESCO heritage sites
  • Ramsar wetlands
  • Critical biodiversity habitats
  • Designated high-risk flood zones
warning

WASTE & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

  • Unlicensed battery or e-waste disposal
  • Open burning
  • Informal dumping
  • Uncontained chemical/oil spills
  • Illegal cross-border waste transport
electrical_services

ELECTRICAL SAFETY

  • Unauthorized live grid work
  • Unapproved points of common coupling
  • Systems lacking anti-islanding and back-feed protection
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PESL-DARES-IMG-ESEC-001 — Environmental and Social Exclusion Criteria. PDF · 1.8 MB.