Course Overview 

Environmental and social sustainability, including climate change resilience, is fundamental to the achievement of development outcomes and must be systematically mainstreamed into development programs. Environmental and social screening and assessment processes for projects have now become standard practice in development cooperation and are usually required by national regulatory frameworks and multilateral and bilateral donors. 

There is therefore need to strengthen environmental and social sustainability, including climate resilience. Potential adverse impacts and risks need to be avoided or minimized, and where possible mitigated. Governments need to demonstrate to Development Partners and stakeholders that we have the appropriate safeguard measures in place for managing donor funded projects.

Objectives 

By the end of the training participants should be able to; 

Enhance the environmental and social sustainability of a proposed project by analyzing the environmental and social benefits and costs of the project 

Identify and manage environmental social risks that could be associated with a proposed project by screening the possible environmental and social costs of an intervention 

Apply national and donor environmental and social safeguard policies and standards to enhance sustainability and good outcomes from projects 

Review of safeguard documents and other project documents to ensure that environmental issues have been adequately addressed and that the project is in compliance with the Safeguard Policies, particularly those on Environmental Assessment 

Identify key environmental issues during implementation, as well as in strengthening implementation support of corporate risk projects 

Ensuring that contractors are fully acquainted with international environmental management practices and monitoring each project components to ensure compliance with the environmental safeguards regulation.

Who should attend 

All environmental planning officers