The overall goal of the workshop was to strengthen development outcomes and sustainability of USAID actions in sub-Saharan Africa by assuring that participants have the motivation, knowledge, and skills beyond the introductory level necessary to: (1) achieve environmental compliance and address climate risk management over the program cycle; and (2) otherwise integrate environmental considerations in activity design and management.
There was particular focus on compliance, CRM and environmentally sound design and management (ESDM) with respect to new ways of doing business and complex, evolving intervention contexts. The workshop also created a space for communication between USAID/Washington and the field to help best address compliance and ESDM challenges.
Approach to Learning:
The workshop design was field-based and emphasized practical application and peer-to-peer learning. Specifically:
- Skills and processes briefed in presentations were built and practiced in hands-on exercises conducted in small working groups.
- As an advanced workshop, basic material was covered in quick, intensive review. Presenters summarized key content quickly, to allow time in each session for discussion and Q&A.
- Key integrative exercises were built around site visits and case studies
- Session formats included group work, panels, and “world cafés”—but even presentation-centered sessions were intended to be interactive.
Overview:
- Day 1 Framing the Mozambique development and environmental contexts. Life-of-program environmental compliance intensive review Energizing our environmental lenses, including field visit.
- Day 2 Advanced topics and introduction to CRM.
- Day 3 Site visits and small-group collaboration.
- Day 4 Site visit read-out, advanced topics, and drafting CRM screening.
- Day 5 Advanced topics, messages to leadership, and individual action plans
- Workshop Agenda PDF (269 KB)
- Sourcebook PDF (25 MB)
Session 1: Workshop Objectives, Logistics, and Introductions
- Presentation: Logistics and Intro PDF (210 KB)
Session 2: Mozambique Context
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Session 3: USAID Environmental Procedures: Intensive Review
Session 4: Environmental Compliance Realities and Challenges
Session 5: EIA Skill-Building/Refresher
- Presentation: EIA Skill Building/Refresher PDF (2 MB)
- EIA Skills Template PDF (60 KB)
Session 6: Stakeholders Engagement for Environmental Compliance
Session 7: Social Impact Assessment
- Presentation: Social Impact Assessment PDF (188 KB)
Session 8: An IEE or an EA? Where is the threshold? - A Case Study
- Presentation: An IEE or an EA? Where is the threshold? - A Case Study PDF (536 KB)
- Group Discussion Outcomes Template PDF (135 KB)
- Group Discussion Outcomes: Facilitators Guide PDF (168 KB)
Session 9: ADS Chapter 204 Revision & Standard Reg 216 Documentation Templates
- Presentation: ADS Chapter 204 Revision & Standard Reg 216 Documentation Templates PDF (286 KB)
- EMMP Template PDF (120 KB)
- IEE TemplatePDF (100 KB)
- Orientation to the Agency Review Draft of ADS 204 PDF (525 KB)
Session 10: MMEMS Environmental and Performance Monitoring System
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Session 11: Water Quality Assurance Plans (WQAPs)
- Presentation: Wash and Water Activites PDF (2MB)
Session 12: Climate Change in Southern Africa
Session 13: Introduction to CRM
- Presentation: Climate Risk Management PDF (1.5 MB)
Session 14: Integrative Site Visit
- Site Descriptions PDF (300 KB)
- EA Site-Visit Exercise–Storm/wastewater Treatment Facility PDF (234)
- EA Site-Visit Exercise–Waste Dump PDF (214 KB)
Session 15: Issues in Health Care Waste Management
Session 16: Pesticide Compliance, IPM and Safer Use
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Session 17: Climate Adaptation for CRM
- Presentation: Climate Adaptation for CRM PDF (329 KB)
Session 18: CRM Experts Panel
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Session 19: Drafting an Activity CRM
- CRM Site-Visit Exercise–IIAM Agricultural Research Site PDF (115 KB)
- CRM Site-Visit Exercise–Health Research Center PDF (117 KB)
- Climate Change Risk Profile Southern Africa PDF (447)
Session 20: Regional Working Groups
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Session 21: World Cafe
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Session 22: Clearing the Parking Lot
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Session 23: Bringing Curricula to Reality
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