Day 1: Motivating ESDM & EIA, LOP Compliance, & Key ESDM skills
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Descriptions and Instructions—All Sessions
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Download the “sourcebook skeleton file” for all module descriptions and exercises |
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Session 1 | Word/PowerPoint | ||
Intro, overview, & expectations | |||
Session 2 | Word/PowerPoint | ||
What is Environment? and Why Environmentally Sound Design and Management (ESDM)?
Creates a common understanding of environment and motivates ESDM as a necessary and explicit objective for effective development. |
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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and ESDM
Introduces the EIA process and explains why EIA is the internationally accepted standard framework for achieving ESDM in project-based development. |
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USAID’s Environmental Procedures: Overview
A brief, high-level overview of the key LOP environmental compliance requirements created by Reg. 216 and the ADS. Collectively, these EIA-based procedures are intended to assure that ESDM receives explicit and systematic attention over LOP. |
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Session 5 | Word/PowerPoint | ||
Simple Tools for Identifying Env. Impacts |
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Session 6 | Word/PowerPoint | ||
Principles of Mitigation & Monitoring |
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Exercise: Using the Small-Scale Guidelines (SSG) Intro to this key ESDM resource. Small group exercise uses the SSG to assess proposed mitigation measures for an actual case. |
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Session 8 | Word/PowerPoint | ||
Transect Walk: Baseline characterization
Undertaken close to the venue to practice environmental baseline observation skills |
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Transect Walk de-brief |
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Session 9 | Word/PowerPoint | ||
Critical information about environmental, social and economic context for effective field review and ESDM practice at the venue and in the host country. Briefings by invited experts (15 mins) are followed by Q&A;/managed discussion. |
(No generic materials — experts prepare short briefings for each course presentation)
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