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FIDIC supports World Bank drive to root out gender-based violence

31 Mar 2021

FIDIC is taking a series of steps to support strengthened measures by the World Bank to address
and prevent gender-based violence (GBV), sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and sexual
harassment (SH).

The strengthened requirements by the bank in its works procurement are aimed at guiding
borrowers in the assessment of bidders’ responsiveness and competence to comply with specific
SEA-SH-related obligations during the bid evaluation process. They also set clear expectations in
contract conditions by stipulating obligations to manage GBV/SEA-SH risks that are within the
contractors’ control. Contractors and sub-contractors who do not comply with the enhanced
requirements will be banned from being awarded a bank-financed contract for two years.

The World Bank is already highly supportive of the FIDIC DAAB mechanism and makes it a
condition precedent to commencing the works on projects. The World Bank’s move increases the
role of Dispute Avoidance/Adjudication Boards (DAABs), already a key feature of FIDIC contracts, on
projects where their policies aimed at stopping sexual harassment and sexual exploitation and
abuse apply. The additional role for DAABs, reflected in the World Bank Standard Procurement
Documents in effect as of January 2021, includes monitoring compliance with the SH and SEA
procedures.

To support the bank’s strengthened measures to combat gender-based violence and sexual
harassment, FIDIC is updating and informing the members of its current list of adjudicators about
the new measures and will be providing enhanced training to any new potential adjudicators on the
new requirements.
FIDIC chief executive Dr Nelson Ogunshakin said: “FIDIC totally supports this initiative from the

World Bank to prevent gender-based violence, which is in line with FIDIC’s code of ethics and
founding principles of integrity and we are working with them to ensure that engineers and DAABs
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founding principles of integrity, and we are working with them to ensure that engineers and DAABs
can effectively support this policy. We applaud this move by the World Bank, the first multilateral
development bank to implement measures which ensure that contractors and subcontractors who
don’t comply with these critical requirements on gender discrimination will not receive further bank-
financed contracts anywhere in the world for a period of two years.

“The World Bank’s decision to increase the role of DAABs further legitimises the use of the FIDIC
contract and DAAB procedures and places an additional responsibility on FIDIC to ensure that all
those on the current and future FIDIC President List of Adjudicators understand the expectations of
the bank and are trained to be effective. We look forward to discussing with the bank to establish
the best way to communicate this new policy and how best to train DAABs to be able to deliver
their objectives.”

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