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The NCEA's Dutch Sustainability Unit (DSU) advised the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on environmental and social impacts associated with the Proposed Gulpur Hydropower Project, State of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan.
The DSU's advice focused on the efficacy of the environmental and social impact assessment work undertaken to meet applicable safeguard requirements; specific concerns raised by MFA; check against 14 “sustainability factors” first introduced in the DSU’s earlier review of the Sounda Gorge Hydropower project in the Republic of Congo.