This workshop will provide intensive training for USAID/Bangkok staff & partners in compliance with USAID's environmental procedures over life-of-project and in the objectives of these procedures: environmentally sound design and management (ESDM) of USAID-funded activities.
Overall Goal. The overall goal of the workshop is to strengthen environmentally sound design and management of USAID-funded activities by assuring that participants have the motivation, knowledge and skills necessary to (1) achieve environmental compliance over life-of-project, and (2) otherwise integrate environmental considerations in activity design and management to improve overall project acceptance and sustainability.
The materials listed below are the materials that will be used and distributed at the workshop.
- Sourcebook PDF (15 MB)
- Workshop Agenda PDF (141KB)
- Native PowerPoint presentation files ZIP (53 MB)
Session 1: Workshop Objectives, Participant Introductions, and Expectations
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (83 KB)
Session 2: Environmental Compliance for Environmentally Sound Design & Management (ESDM)
- Environmental Compliance for Environmentally Sound Design and Management PDF (3 MB)
- Handout: Identifying Environmental Impacts PDF (64 KB)
Session 3: ESDM across the USAID Project Life Cycle
- Presentation PDF (250 KB)
Session 4
- Forthcoming
Session 5: Fundamental Environmental Impact (EIA) Skills and Concepts I
- Presentation PDF (2 MB)
Session 6: Why Implement Environmental Compliance Procedures?
- Chapter Excerpt PDF(51 KB)
- Presentation PDF (2.26 MB)
Session 7: Field Visit: Practicing Core EIA Skills
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (188 KB)
- Summary Description of Waste Water Treatment Plant PDF (152 KB)
- Summary Description of Small Holder Farming Irrigation Field Site PDF (300 KB)
- Summary Description of Naree Organic Farm PDF (539 KB)
- Summary Description of Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center (TRC-ARC) PDF (285 KB)
Session 8: Getting the Most Out of the Sector Environmental Guidelines
- Presentation PDF (346 KB)
Session 9: Reg. 216 (22 CFR 216): USAID’s Pre-implementation EIA Process
- Presentation PDF (2 MB)
Session 10: Effective IEEs
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (54 KB)
- Presentation PDF (458 KB)
- Virtual Field Visit: Expansion of Agricultural Activities within a Humanitarian Assistance Program PDF (48 KB)
- Presentation: Livelihood component, Shae Thot programme PDF (13 MB)
- Draft IEE for Shae Thot Program PDF (152 KB)
- Draft IEE for Sustainable Wellness Program: Health Clinic Construction and Renovation Activity PDF (136 KB)
Session 11: Environmental Analyses for Project Appraisal Documents
- Presentation PDF (659 KB)
Session 12: Fundamental EIA Skills and Concepts II: Environmental Monitoring& Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans (EMMPs)
- Presentation PDF (2 MB)
Session 13: Small Group Indicators Exercise
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (123KB)
Session 14: Procurement and Environmental Compliance
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (42 KB)
- Presentation PDF (495 KB)
- Exercise 1 PDF (67 KB)
- Exercise 2 PDF (65 KB)
- Exercise 3 PDF (49 KB)
Session 15: Environmental Compliance in Implementation
- Presentation PDF (405 KB)
Session 16: Roles, Responsibilities, and Resources
- Presentation PDF (1.38 MB)
- Global Environmental Management Support (GEMS II) Implementing Mechanism Factsheet PDF (365 KB)
Session 17: GCC Consideration in Project Planning and EIA
- Presentation PDF (1.38 MB)
- Illustrative Global Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Measures (Exercise Pages) PDF (127 KB)
Session 18: Pesticide Evaluation Reports and Safer Use Action Plan (PERSUAP) Basics
- Presentation PDF (2 MB)
Session 19: Knowledge Game Briefing
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (73 KB)
Session 20: Resolving the “Parking Lot”: Final Technical Q&A
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (36 KB)
Session 21: “Way Forward” Plenary Discussion
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (52 KB)
- USAID Life of Project Environmental Compliance Milestones PDF (63 KB)
Workshop evaluation
- Workshop Evaluation PDF (34 KB)
Scoping, Environmental Assessments& Programmatic Env Assessments (full EIA Studies under Reg. 216)
- Presentation PDF (1 MB)
Additional Materials
- Annotated Initial Environmantal Examination (IEE) Template PDF (40 KB)
- Annotated Request for Categorical Exclusion (RCE) Template PDF (20 KB)
- Environmental Compliance Language Factsheet PDF (70 KB)
- Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Factsheet PDF (325 KB)
- Environmental Compliance Language for Soliciations and Awards PDF (97 KB)