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Regional USAID Staff Environmental Compliance-ESDM Training

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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 > Rabat, Morocco • 10-14 March 2014

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

A Middle East Regional Training Workshop for USAID Staff
Rabat, Morocco • 10-14 March 2014

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 used and distributed at the workshop.

  • Sourcebook PDF (27 MB)
  • Workshop Agenda PDF(268KB)
  • Native PowerPoint presentation files ZIP (34 MB)

Session 1: Workshop Objectives and Logistics; Participant Introductions

  • 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: Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (78KB)
  • Environmental Impact Assessment: A Framework for Environmentally Sound Design and Management PDF (733 KB)

Session 4: Core EIA Skills 1

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (61 KB)
  • Environmental Impact Assessment: A Framework for Environmentally Sound Design and Management PDF (1.3 MB)

Session 5: Practicing Core EIA Skills – Virtual Field Visits

  • Chapter Excerpt PDF (64 KB)
  • Group 1: Smallholder Irrigation Rehabilitation and Expansion PDF (34 KB)
  • Group 2: District Hospital Expansion and Rehabilitation PDF (30 KB)
  • Bagamoyo Irrigation Development Project (BIDP) PDF (7 MB)

Session 6: Reg. 216: USAID’s Pre-Implementation EIA Process

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF(57 KB)
  • 22 CFR 216 (Reg. 216) USAID’s Pre-implementation Environmental Impact Assessment Process PDF (3 MB)

Session 7: Effective IEEs

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF(85KB)
  • Draft IEE for Project 1: Small-holder Irrigation Development Component of the Small-holder Agric. Productivity and Market Access Program (SAPMA) PDF (40KB)
  • Draft IEE for Project 2: District Hospital Expansion and Rehabilitation Component of the Maternal, Child & Rural Health Support Program (MCRH) PDF (52KB)

Session 8: Core EIA Skills 2: Environmental Monitoring & Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans (EMMPs)

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (101KB)
  • Environmental Impact Assessment Skills, Part II: Environmental Monitoring & Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans PDF (2 MB)

Session 9: Indicators exercise

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (104KB)

Session 10: Field-based EMMP Development Exercise

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (85KB)
  • Echallalate Wastewater Treatment Plant Field Visit PDF (13 KB)
  • Banana Farm Field Visit PDF (13 KB)

Session 11: IP Environmental Compliance Reporting

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (61 KB)
  • Reporting on Environmental Compliance PDF (463 KB)

Session 12: Roles, Responsibilities & Resources

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (83 KB)
  • Environmental Compliance Roles, Responsibilities, Reporting and Resources PDF (857 KB)

Session 13: Environmental Compliance/ESDM Knowledge Game

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (124 KB)

Session 14: “Parking lot” session

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (84 KB)

Session 15: Bringing Training to Reality

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (74 KB)
  • Individual Workshop Follow-Up Plan PDF (165 KB)
  • AFR Environmental Compliance Best Practice Standard PDF (165 KB)
  • Synthesis of Best Practice Review Findings PDF (85 KB)
  • ENCAP Best Practice Review Factsheet PDF (234 KB)

Session 16: Workshop Evaluation

  • Workshop Evaluation Introduction PDF (1MB)
  • Workshop Evaluation Word (25KB)

Special Topic: Pesticide Risks, Safer Use & USAID’s Pesticide Procedures

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (42 KB)
  • Pesticide Risks, Safer Use and Compliance PDF (1 MB)

Special Topic: Sub-project Review

  • Chapter Excerpt PDF (58 KB)
  • USAID Environmental Procedures for Sub-Projects PDF (216 KB)
  • Note to USAID Staff, Consultants & Partners Regarding the: Africa Bureau ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FORM & INSTRUCTIONS PDF (105 KB)
  • Instructions for environmental review of XXX Program Subprojects/Sub-grants PDF (105 KB)
  • Environmental Review Form for XXX Program subprojects/subgrants PDF (105 KB)

Special Topic: Environmental Compliance Best Practice for “Tricky Activities”

  • Chapter Excerpt PDF (58 KB)
  • Environmental Compliance Best Practice for “Tricky Activities” PDF (58 KB)

Special Topic: Planning and Monitoring Environmental Compliance in Non-Permissive Environments

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (19 KB)
  • Planning and Monitoring Environmental Compliance in Non-Permissive Environments PDF (19 KB)

Special Topic: Life-of-Project Environmental Compliance Milestones

  • Chapter Exerpt PDF (21 KB)
  • USAID Life of Project Environmental Compliance Milestones PDF (65 KB)

Additional Materials:

  • ENCAP Factsheet: Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans (EMMPs) PDF (319 KB)
  • ENCAP Factsheet: Environmental Compliance: Language for Use in Solicitations and Awards PDF (119 KB)
  • Environmental Compliance: Language for Use in Solicitations and Awards PDF (256 KB)
  • Global Environmental Management Support (GEMS II) Factsheet PDF (256 KB)
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