Progress > Public Consultation for Initial Environment Examination (IEE) and Data Collection for year 2 NRI subprojects

   A two-step process was introduced in the training. The first step was a public consultation initially intended to make a checklist that briefly describes the project activities to be implemented and natural resources to be affected, including the data requirements. Typical activities such as siting of the project, resource demand, waste production and regulation, policies and guidelines were included in IEE process. For any particular project only a few of these may be significant and therefore the first step is to narrow the list of activities likely to produce significant effects on the environment. The participants then were exposed to the process of identifying significant impacts vis-à-vis environmental parameters that might be affected. The response of each environmental parameter to each project action is represented by a rating number ranging from 1 to 3, 1 represent no significant impact, 2 moderate impact and 3 major impact.

   A total of 9 Subproject sites (i.e., 8 irrigations and 1 road subprojects) were visited. In each subproject the PPO and DCO staffs were trained on the process described above. Sketch maps were used as reference points for identifying community-based impacts, which were collected through focus group discussions (FGDs) with the villagers.