ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL SCREENING UNDER WAAPP – AN SCREENING UNDER WAAPP – AN INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION

A presentation at a Meeting between WAAPP-PCO A presentation at a Meeting between WAAPP-PCO and Coordinators of Adopted Villages of NARIs & and Coordinators of Adopted Villages of NARIs & FCAs, Nugget Hotel, Abuja 14FCAs, Nugget Hotel, Abuja 14thth August 2013 August 2013

By

Hussain ShittuWAAPP – Environment Focal Point

OUTLINE

Screening & categorisation Project proposal screening form

ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL SCREENING

WHAT IS SCREENING?It is a process of evaluating various project components/ activities against environmental variables to: Help determine the need or otherwise for an EA for a project proposal and;

establish the level of review applicable to a given project

PURPOSE OF SCREENING

Screening is to achieve the following purposes:

Determine whether or not a proposal requires an EADetermine what level of EA is required.It is intended to ensure that the form or level of any EIA review is commensurate with the importance of the issues raised by a proposal. Screening establishes the basis for scoping.

SCREENING PROCEDURE

Screening Activity Involves The Following:

Initial Environmental Examination “ carried out in cases where the environmental impacts of a proposal are uncertain or unknown (e.g. new technologies or undeveloped areas);

Environmental overview “ carried out as a rapid assessment of the environmental issues and impacts of a proposal; and

Class screening “carried out for a family of small projects or repetitive activities, where the environmental effects and means of mitigation are known but there is potential for cumulative impacts (e.g. dredging, road realignment, bank stabilization e.t.c).

SCREENING PROCEDURE CONT’DScreening: Category ACategory A: “significant, adverse environmental impacts that are sensitive, diverse or unprecedented”.“Sensitive” impact: may be irreversible or raise significant issues reflected in various safeguard policies relating to natural habitats (e.g., lead to loss of major natural habitat), involuntary resettlement, impacts on Indigenous Peoples or Physical Cultural Resources.

May affect an area broader than sites or facilities subject to physical works.

SCREENING PROCEDURE CONT’DScreening: Category BCategory B: “potential adverse environmental impacts on human populations or environmentally important areas--including wetlands, forests, grasslands, and other natural habitats-- are less adverse than Category A; Impacts are site-specific, few if any irreversible, mitigation measures designed more easily than for Category A”

Scope of EA narrower and more focused than for Category A – may only be an Environmental Management Plan.

Does not include an analysis of broader alternatives.

Often uses well tested mitigation and monitoring measures.

More focused consultation process.

SCREENING PROCEDURE CONT’D

SCREENING PROCEDURE CONT’D

Screening Procedure Cont’d

A sample of Screening Form

Environmental and social selection form1 Project implementation location

2 Name, function and information on the person filling this form.

Date: Signatures:

PART A: Brief description of the proposed agricultural project

(i) the proposed project (surface area, land needed, approximate size of total surface to be occupied

(ii) necessary actions during the implementation of activities and the exploitation of the project.

Part B: Brief description of the environmental situation and identification of environmental and social impacts

1 Natural environment

(a) Describing soil formation, topography, the vegetation of the location/adjacent to the agricultural project implementation area(b) Making an assessment and specifying the vegetation thereof

(c) Are there sensitive areas on the environmental plan or threatened species?

2 Ecology of rivers and lakes: Could the ecology of rivers or lakes, due to the delivery and exploitation of the agricultural activity, be negatively affected?

Yes No

3 Protected areasIs the area around project site inside or adjacent to any government protected area (national park, national reserve world heritage site, etc)?

Yes No

If the delivery/operating of the school happens outside a protected area (or near it), is this likely to have negative impact on the ecology of the protected area (example: interference with mammals or birds migration routes)

Yes No

Environmental and social selection form, Cont’d4 Geology and soils:

Are there areas with geological or soil instability e.g, landslides, subsidence)?Yes No

5 Landscape/aesthetics: Could the project affect the beauty of the local landscape? Yes No

6 Historical, archeological or cultural heritage sites.Could the project, negatively affect historical, archeological or cultural heritage sites or will this require archeological dig in a very close area?

Yes No

7 Compensation and/or land acquisitionWill the acquisition or loss of lands, denial or restriction of access to land or to other economic resources be imputable to the project concerned?

Yes No

8 Crop loss, fruit tree, domestic infrastructures:Will the project lead to the permanent or temporary loss of crops, fruit trees, or domestic infrastructures

Yes No

9 Noise pollution during project delivery and implementation Will the noise level during the implementation of the project concerned go beyond the acceptable noise limit?

Yes No

10 Solid or liquid waste: Will the activity concerned generate solid or liquid wastes? Yes No

If“Yes”, did the project provide for a waste collection or disposal plan? Yes No

11 11. Public consultationWas the public consultation and participation factored in during the development and implementation of the project? If “Yes”, give brief description of measures taken in this regard.

Yes No

Part C: Alleviation measuresFor all answers with « Yes », PFEs, in consultation with local technical institutions, in particular those in charge of environment, should provide brief description of related measures.

Environmental and social selection form, Cont’d

Part D: Project classification and environmental

work:

Projet Type (A): No environmental work required

Projet Type (B): Simple mitigation measures needed

Projet Type (C): Environmental Impact Study needed

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