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Regional USAID Staff Environmental Compliance-ESDM Training

Country-level USAID Staff and Implementing Partner Env Compliance- ESDM Training

Cleaner Production for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Pesticide Risks, Safer Use and Compliance

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Home > Training > Regional USAID Staff Environmental Compliance-ESDM Training > 18–21 May 2015

Life-of-Project Environmental Compliance and
Environmentally Sound Design and Management

A Middle East Regional Training Workshop for USAID Staff
Cairo, Egypt | 18–21 May 2015

Hosted by: USAID/Middle East Regional | Co-Sponsored by: USAID/Egypt

Program
This workshop provided intensive training for USAID 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 that were used and distributed. Additional materials will be added to this workshop homepage as they become available.

  • Sourcebook PDF (27 MB)
  • Workshop Agenda PDF(268KB)
  • Native PowerPoint presentation files ZIP (51 MB)

Session 1: Workshop Objectives, Participant Introductions & Expectations

  • Chapter Excerpt PDF (97 KB)

Session 2: Environmental Compliance for Environmentally Sound Design and Management (ESDM)

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (68 KB)
  • Life-of-Project Environmental Compliance for Environmentally Sound Design and Management PDF (7 MB)

Session 3: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Concepts, Process, & Skills: Part I

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (78KB)
  • Environmental Impact Assessment: Concepts, Process and Skills Part I PDF (733 KB)

Session 4: Reg. 216: USAID’s Pre-Implementation EIA Process

  • Chapter Excerpt PDF (61 KB)
  • 22 CFR 216 (Reg. 216): USAID’s Pre-implementation EIA Process PDF (1.3 MB)

Session 5: Virtual Field Exercise: Practicing EIA Skills

  • Chapter Excerpt PDF (64 KB)

Session 6: Effective IEEs

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF(57 KB)
  • Effective IEE PDF (83 KB)

Session 7: Core EIA Skills II & Downstream Environmental Monitoring & Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF(85KB)
  • EIA Skills Part II & “Downstream Compliance” (Environmental Monitoring, EMMPs and Reporting) PDF (40KB)
  • Translating IEE Conditions Summaries PDF (94 KB)

Session 8: Scoping, EA & PEA Basics

  • Chapter Excerpt PDF (101KB)
  • Scoping, Environmental Assessments & Programmatic Env Assessments (full EIA Studies under Reg. 216) PDF (2 MB)

Session 9: Impact Assessment 201

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (104KB)
  • “Impact Assessment 201” PDF (2 MB)

Session 10: Integrative Case Study(ies)

  • Chapter Excerpt PDF (104KB)
  • Tanzania – Critical Analysis of River Basin Management in the Great Ruaha Global Water Partnership (GWP) CASE #121 PDF (642 KB)
  • The Guardian Newspaper Great Ruaha river that helps feed Tanzania under 'alarming stress' PDF (80 KB)
  • Impact Assessment Concepts Integrative Case Study: Great Ruaha River Basin (Tanzania) PDF (137 KB)

Session 11: Field-Based EMMP Exercise

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (61 KB)
  • EMMP Template PDF (90 KB)

Session 12: Environmental Management in Conflict and Post- Conflict Settings

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (83 KB)
  • Environmental Management in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings: Early lessons from stock-taking exercise PDF (2 MB)
  • Best Practice & Compliancefor Investment Promotion PDF (368 KB)

Session 13: Sector Mini-Sessions

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (124 KB)
  • Environmental Monitoring in Hard to Access Locations PDF (198 KB)
  • Environmental Compliance Special Topic: DO-level IEEs USAID/Southern Africa PDF (120 KB)

Session 14: Sector Roundtables

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (84 KB)

Session 15: Roles, Responsibilities and Resources

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (74 KB)
  • Environmental Compliance: Roles, Responsibilities, Reporting & Resources PDF (1 MB)

Session 16: Resolving the “Parking Lot”: Final Technical Q&A

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (74 KB)

Session 17: Stocktaking & Action Plans

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (42 KB)

Session 18: Workshop Evaluations

  • Chapter Excerpt PDF (58 KB)
  • Workshop Evaluation PDF (60 KB)

Additional Materials:

  • Environmental Procedures Briefing for USAID Staff PDF (154 KB)
  • ENCAP Factsheet: Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans (EMMPs) PDF (319 KB)
  • Environmental Compliance: Language for Use in Solicitations and Awards PDF (256 KB)
  • Reg 216 “Flow Chart”PDF (80 KB)
  • Mitigation and monitoring tables from USAID Small-Scale Construction Sector Environmental Guidelines (Nov 2013 edition pgs 12-23) PDF (192 KB)
  • Construction Visual field guide (December 2011 version) PDF (600 KB)

 
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