This document presents the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for Additional Financing of Recurrent Cost and Reform Finance (RCRF II). The ESMF ensures that the project activities are compliant with the relevant requirements of national policies, regulations and legislations as well as the World Bank Safeguards Policies and Procedures. The objective of this ESMF is to set out the principles, rules, guidelines and procedure to assess the environmental and social impacts and monitoring to ensure that environment and social aspects are duly considered.  
 
This ESMF only applies to those activities that will be financed, either directly or indirectly, by RCRF, and not to any other activities that a supported beneficiary may be otherwise involved in; all language in this ESMF should be interpreted under this light.