Environmental and Social Impact Assessment

Introduction

The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment training course provides the necessary concepts, knowledge, and good practices about managing environmental and social impacts resulting from development projects. This is a process of evaluating the likely environmental and social impacts of a proposed project or development, considering inter-related socio-economic, cultural, and human-health impacts, both beneficial and adverse.

This GLOMACS training course aims to help those who engage in development projects understand how their projects could affect the environment and how the environment could affect their projects. Then by using a formal methodology, it will maximise the positive impacts, and negative ones will be reduced or minimised to acceptable levels. Moreover, it will provide the delegates with a holistic picture about the main trends of interaction between environment, society, and business through discussing how and when business interacts with the surrounding environment and society and how the environment reacts with such interaction and how society could affect and be affected by business and what is the expected role of business in improving both environment and society, not just through remediation for the negative impacts, but through value creation and better maximised positive impacts.

Objectives

By the end of this Environmental and Social Impact Assessment training course, the participants will be able to:

• Understand the main components of the environment and current environmental issues like climate change and sustainable development
• Learn the main environmental and social impact that could result from development project
• Use a variety of management techniques, analytical tools to assess the environmental and social impact
• Perform plans and other controlling techniques for the impact result from the projects.
• Involve the affected and interested public in all aspects of the project

Training Methodology

Different learning techniques will be used during the training course, starting from PowerPoint presentations, interactive practical exercises, workshops, focused group discussions, related videos, and business case studies.

Organisational Impact

The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment training course will explain the relationship between environment and development and how environmental and social impact assessment could be used as a powerful tool to help organizations to achieve their goals without negatively affecting the environment and society, and this will be through:

• Better ability to understand the main elements of the environment surrounding projects
• The capability to identify different environmental and social impacts affect air, soil, and water
• Recognize the role of ESIA in achieving sustainable development
• Acquiring knowledge about ESIA regulations and procedures 
• Implement the acquired knowledge in an appropriate context related to the organisation’s business

Personal Impact

The delegates will enhance their understanding of the relationship between environment, society, and economic development, and this will be through the following: 

• Implement project management tools and concepts on sustainability topics
• Gain a new perspective about ESIA as a mandatory tool for project success
• Think strategically about the challenges and opportunities related to the environment and economy
• Understand the result of the main impacts of the development projects and how these impacts affect their organisations, and how to manage them
• Apply techniques to include society in their decision-making process regards to development projects that could affect the society
• Implement analytical tools to improve their understanding of such impacts on the environment and society