Social and Gender Integration Plan (SGIP), Version 2.0, June 29, 2021.

The Social and Gender Integration Plan (SGIP) describes the gender and social inclusion objectives, activities, outputs, responsibilities, and timelines for the Mongolia Water Compact. The process of developing and revising the SGIP serves as a mechanism for soliciting inputs and agreements within MCC and MCA-Mongolia and among other relevant stakeholders. The SGIP is one of MCA-Mongolia’s main strategic and operational documents and provides a framework to ensure ongoing social and gender analysis, integration, staffing, and training within Compact activities. The plan highlights social and gender-based constraints and risks across the sector that need to be mitigated, and it identifies opportunities for enhancing benefits for women and marginalized groups. It also serves as a guiding document for bidders, consultants, contractors, sub-contractors, grantees, and implementing entities to integrate social and gender analysis and activities into the design, planning, implementation, and closeout phases of all Compact activities.
The Compact comprises three closely related investment activities: Downstream Wells Activity, to construct new groundwater wells with attendant transmission lines, reservoirs, and an Advanced Water Purification Plant to increase the amount of water abstracted from groundwater aquifers, supplied to Ulaanbaatar, and ultimately consumed by residential consumers and commercial and industrial users. Wastewater Recycling Activity, to construct a new Water Recycling Plant and recycled water transmission pipelines to provide high-quality treated wastewater that can be used instead of groundwater by the Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHPP) #3 and #4, thereby saving the reserve of groundwater available that could be used for increasing water supply of UB; and Water Sector Sustainability Activity, to support five interventions that address policy, legal, regulatory, and institutional issues and improve the long term sustainability of the water sector in UB.
The SGIP contains a social and gender analysis, which provides a brief background about the critical laws, policies, and social and gender issues in the compact sector in the country and project-implementation area(s), as well as the status of women and marginalized and low-income people that may be affected by the project. The other main component of an SGIP is a social and gender integration Action Plan which includes specific measures to ensure the following: Identification of approaches for regular, meaningful, and inclusive consultations with women and other vulnerable groups; Development of strategies for consolidating the findings and recommendations of Project-specific social and gender analyses into final Project designs; Specification of actions to be taken during the Compact implementation to meet the social inclusion and gender equality objectives; Specification of outputs, responsibilities, and timelines related to specified GSI actions; Ensuring that final designs, construction tender documents, and implementation plans are consistent with and incorporate the outcomes of the social and gender analyses.