Using the Hydropower Sustainability Tools in World Bank Group Client Countries : Lessons Learned and Recommendations
The Hydropower Sustainability Tools (HSTs) are a suite of assessment tools and guidance documents developed by a multi-stakeholder forum, aimed at driving continuous improvement in hydropower development and operations. They are useful beyond their...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/948231610524820276/Using-the-Hydropower-Sustainability-Tools-in-World-Bank-Group-Client-Countries-Lessons-Learned-and-Recommendations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35018 |
| Summary: | The Hydropower Sustainability Tools
(HSTs) are a suite of assessment tools and guidance
documents developed by a multi-stakeholder forum, aimed at
driving continuous improvement in hydropower development and
operations. They are useful beyond their original purpose as
audit tools and can be used in World Bank Group (WBG) client
countries to build capacity for sustainable hydropower. The
environmental, social, and governance topics addressed by
the HSTs are deliberately aligned with WBG frameworks, which
provides opportunities for the tools to be used as
complements to World Bank Group standards, including to help
clients meet WBG requirements and support WBG staff in their
due diligence and supervision. It is, however, important
that WBG staff should give careful thought to selecting the
tool that is most appropriate, given the nature and status
of a project, and in a way that is consistent with policy
requirements. The tools can also be used voluntarily by WBG
client countries in the absence of WBG financing. The HSTs
are widely regarded as useful reference tools and recognized
as the best currently available measuring stick for
principles of sustainable hydropower. |
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