- - The increase in the state's tax base;
- - Significant reduction in the prevalence of water-borne diseases;
- - The increase in the rate of access to drinking water;
- - The possibility of creating small craft units.

However, the implementation of the project will also have negative impacts.

- • the social level, these negative impacts include noise pollution, the risk of the • the social level, these negative impacts include noise pollution, the risk of the spread of acute respiratory diseases and STIs / AIDS, social conflicts between local populations and site personnel following the non-recruitment of local populations, etc.
- • for negative environmental impacts, they mainly boil down to various types of • for negative environmental impacts, they mainly boil down to various types of air and soil pollution. All these negative impacts have been analyzed and evaluated through the Fecteau grid. Thus, these negative impacts vary in importance from Low, Medium to High.

The waste that will be produced during the implementation of the project is, among others, the packaging of premises maintenance products, the packaging of water treatment products (lime) and the packaging of other chemical products. This waste will be added to that of modules 1 and 2 in operation. If a system for collecting and managing this waste that would come from project activities both in its construction phase and in its operational phase is not put in place, this situation could be detrimental to the living environment of the populations living in the middle. The main risks identified can be summarized as follows: falling or slipping of equipment, injuries or loss of life due to accidents (work accident, traffic accident, etc.), disturbances of the tranquility of local residents, trips and slips, injuries bodily injury, various fires, intoxication of the population and animals with loss of human and animal lives following sabotage by the introduction of toxic products into the plant basins, increased risk of insecurity with the presence of workers and gear movements, gender-based violence, etc. Mitigation and management measures for these impacts and risks have been proposed in the ESMP. The ESMP thus developed is intended to deal with the negative impacts induced by the Project on the environment and the populations. This should help minimize the negative impacts related to the implementation of project activities. This Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) developed includes the following key elements:

- ➢ On the social level, the mitigation measures include: staffing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (helmets, safety shoes, nose covers, etc.), staffing the base of the site with an infirmary for administer first aid, organize awareness campaigns in favor of the populations on the risk of accident and the attitudes to be taken before the start and during the works, the incentive of the companies to carry out the works within the contractual deadlines, carrying out of the work causing a lot of noise outside of rest hours and the use of quieter machinery, the development and implementation of an IEC plan towards the populations, the establishments bordering on the project and the employees on the Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) and HIV / AIDS.
- ➢ At the environmental level, the mitigation measures are summarized as follows:

Installation of a tarpaulin on the trucks transporting the materials, Adjustment of the water content of the gravel to reduce the impact of dust before unloading, limit speeds to 40 km / hour, oblige companies to do the technical visits and to Carry out the emptying in the approved garages to envisage the development and the implementation of a Plan Management of the equipment and infrastructures, to