This section of the environmental procedures site provides sector-specific environmental and social guidance to support activity design, pre-implementation environmental review (including identification of potential impacts and design of mitigation and monitoring measures), and development of environmental mitigation and monitoring plans (EMMPs).
The following resources are available via the navigation links at left:
The Sector Environmental Guidelines provide concise regarding:
Note: The Guidelines are advisory only. They are not official USAID regulatory guidance or policy.
Visual field guides support field monitoring of select activities by development professionals, including those who are not environmental specialists. They are photo-based, simple yes-no checklists that identify the most common, significant environmental design and management problems in a set of typical sectoral activities.
USAID is committed to development that is inclusive of disadvantaged groups and to human rights. These commitments are expressed in part via a set of social policies, strategies and visions for Agency programming.
These policies, strategies and visions inform the Agency’s understanding of and response to potential to social impacts in its development programming.
Last updated: October 09, 2019
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