Environmental assessment of development assistance projects should include all crosscutting issues

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Brown, Alan
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1998
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This paper concerns international development assistance, or international cooperation, and the desire amongst countries and agencies providing this assistance to ensure that its outcomes are sustainable, that activities promoted by the assistance result in minimal environmental damage, preferably environmental improvement, that its benefits are fairly distributed, including across genders, and that it contributes to sustainable livelihoods in the recipient country. Within the headquarters of the major development assistance agencies, whether international or bilateral, these matters are likely to be official policy, and likewise there is staff in their country offices strongly committed to these policies. But equally there are a range of pressures within the country offices of these agencies to pay little more than lip service to these issues, and to “get on with the essential job of development” – the issues being seen as impediments, and peripheral, to the core activity of designing and implementing projects and programs.

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Impact Assessment in the Development Process: Advances in Integrating Environmental Assessment with Economic and Social Appraisal

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Environmental assessment and monitoring

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Brown, A, Environmental assessment of development assistance projects should include all crosscutting issues, Impact Assessment in the Development Process: Advances in Integrating Environmental Assessment with Economic and Social Appraisal, 1998