This workshop provided intensive training for USAID/Cairo 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.
The materials listed below are the materials used and distributed at the workshop.
- Sourcebook PDF (7.5 MB)
- Agenda Word (35 KB)
- Native PowerPoint presentation files PDF (37 MB)
- Additional handouts
- EGSSAA Excerpt: Medical Waste PDF (450KB)
- EGSSAA Excerpt: Agriculture PDF (1 MB)
- EGSSAA Excerpt: Construction PDF (620 KB)
- Pyramids Plateau Groundwater Lowering Activity Presentation PDF (662 KB)
- Pyramids Plateau Groundwater Lowering Project PDF (2.3 MB)
- Pyramids Plateau Groundwater Lowering Project Word (1.5 MB)
Session 1. Introduction
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (77KB)
Session 2. Environmental Compliance for Environmentally Sound Design and Management (ESDM)
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (104 KB)
- Presentation: Life-of-Project Environmental Compliance for Environmentally Sound Design and Management PDF (75MB)
Session 3. Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (129 KB)
- Presentation: Environmental Impact Assessment: A Framework for Environmentally Sound Design and Management PDF (808 KB)
Session 4. Core EIA Skills I: Baseline Characterization,Identifying Issues of Concern & Mitigation
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (98 KB)
- Presentation: Core Environmental Impact Assessment Skills Part I: Characterizing the baseline situation Identifying environmental impacts Principles of environmental mitigation PDF (1.3 MB)
Session 5. Practicing Core EIA Skills: Virtual Field Visit
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (102 KB)
- Group 1: Smallholder Irrigation Rehabilitation and Expansion PDF (61 KB)
- Group 2: District Hospital Expansion and Rehabilitation PDF (59 KB)
- Photos: Virtual Field Visit Bagamoyo Irrigation Development Project (BIDP) and Bagamoyo District Hospital Expansion & Rehabilitation PDF (6 MB)
Session 6. Reg. 216: USAID’s Pre-Implementation EIA Process
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (96 KB)
- Presentation: 22 CFR 216 (Reg. 216): USAID’s Pre-implementation Environmental Impact Assessment Process PDF (96 KB)
Session 7. Effective IEEs
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (98 KB)
- Draft IEE for Project 1: Small-holder Irrigation Development Component of the Small-holder Agric. Productivity and Market Access Program (SAPMA) PDF (61 KB)
- Draft IEE for Project 2: District Hospital Expansion and Rehabilitation Component of the Maternal, Child & Rural Health Support Program (MCRH) PDF (66 KB)
Session 8. Core EIA Skills II: Environmental Monitoring & Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (110 KB)
- Presentation: EnvironmentaI Impact Assessment Skills, Part II: Environmental Monitoring & Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans PDF (2.5 MB)
Session 9. Small Group Indicators Exercise
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (126 KB)
Session 10. IP Reporting on Environmental Compliance
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (114 KB)
- Presentation: Reporting on Environmental Compliance PDF (462 KB)
Session 11. Field-Based EMMP Development Exercise
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (170 KB)
- Cairo EMMP Exercise Word (30 KB)
Session 12. Roles, Responsibilities and Resources
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (58 KB)
- Presentation: Environmental Compliance: Roles, Responsibilities, Reporting & Resources PDF (1 MB)
- Implementing Mechanism Factsheet: Global Environmental Management Support (GEMS) PDF (141 KB)
Session 13. Environmental Compliance/ESDM Knowledge Game
- Chapter Exerpt PDF (404 KB)
Session 14. Resolving the “Parking Lot”: Final Technical Q&A
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (111 KB)
Session 15. Bringing Training to Reality
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (108 KB)
- AFR Environmental Compliance Best Practice Standard PDF (93 KB)
- Synthesis of BPR Findings (all BPRs thru August 2010) PDF (133 KB)
- Individual Workshop Follow-up Plan PDF (117 KB)
Session 16. Workshop Evaluation
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (140 KB)
- Worskhop Evaluation Word (52 KB)
Special Topic. Pesticide Risks, Safer Use & USAID’s Pesticide Procedures
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (94 KB)
- Presentation: What is a Pest? What is a Pesticide? What are the Risks of Pesticides?...and What is USAID’s Response? PDF (2 MB)
Special Topic. Subproject Review
- Chapter Excerpt PDF (78 KB)
- Presentation: USAID Environmental Procedures for Sub-Projects PDF (227 KB)
- Note to USAID Staff, Consultants & Partners Regarding the: Africa Bureau ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FORM & INSTRUCTIONS PDF (193 KB)
- AFR Environmental Review Form Instructions PDF (130 KB)
- AFR Environmental Review Form PDF (114 KB)
- Supplement to the Environmental Review Form for Natural Resources Activities PDF (81 KB)
- ENCAP Factsheet PDF (118 KB)
- Environmental Compliance: Language for Use in Solicitations and Awards PDF (111 KB)
- USAID Environmental Procedures Briefing PDF (154 KB)
- ENCAP Factsheet: Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans (EMMPs) PDF (297 KB)
Special Topic: Water and Env. Compliance
- WATER & USAID’s Environmental Procedures PDF (957 KB)