Safeguard actions required for non-RBL projects are largely unsuitable for RBL programs, and this needs to be considered to improve the safeguard system assessments and categorization of future RBL programs. While safeguard concerns were satisfactorily resolved in the program, some actions in the safeguard action plan were more appropriate for a typical investment project than for an RBL program. For example, the safeguard action plan indicated the disclosure of environmental documents of senior high school classroom construction. During Implementation, ADB clarified that the program, as RBL, did not directly fund construction of classrooms but only disbursed loan proceeds to the government when targets on student-classroom ratio were achieved. Classroom construction was under Department of Education's senior high school classroom construction projects and could not be directly attributed as program funded.
Senior High School Support Program