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In the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), knowing how and when to use AI data will be critical for monitoring and auditing. It is essential to collect site-level environmental and social baseline data, evaluate the associated impacts of the projects within ESIAs and ensure follow-up on recommendations. Project-level baseline data gathering and transferring these data into meaningful performance indicators requires attention EARLY, i.e., during ESIA preparation to set-up post-ESIA monitoring and auditing.
The aims of this course are to improve understanding of the roles and responsibilities for environmental and social monitoring and auditing processes, including due diligence prior to investing in existing projects, explain how to set up systematic, robust systems of monitoring and compliance auditing; facilitate adaptive management; and show how companies, governments, finance institutions, etc., will use such information. Participants’ learning outcomes of the course will be:
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Prerequisites: Participants must have knowledge of the ESIA process including the formulation of Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMPs) and some experience with project monitoring or auditing.
Language: English
Duration: 2 days (29-30 April)
Min/Max: 10-35
Price: US $480
Instructor(s):
Bryony Walmsley, Director, SAIEA (South Africa)
Defne Arisoy, Consultant, Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (Turkiye)
Charlotte Bingham, EIA practitioner (USA)
Bryony Walmsley
Bryony has 44 years’ experience in environmental consulting, starting in Canada in 1980. She has lived and worked in southern Africa since 1983. After 24 years as an EA consultant, she now specializes in capacity building and training, development of reference materials, external review of large projects, environmental compliance auditing and development and research of environmental tools. She has conducted many training courses for a wide variety of clients, including the World Bank, UNDP, many African governments, IAIA (CBBIA project) and other private clients. She has presented eight courses on four different topics at annual IAIA conferences.
Defne Arisoy
Defne has more than 25 years’ general experience in EIA/ESIA preparation, management, monitoring, auditing in infrastructure projects. She presented lectures at local well-known universities as a guest lecturer. She managed the E&S studies of Renewable Energy Investments of Neo Themis in Sub-saharan Africa, worked as an Individual Consultant in IFI funded Railway Projects of the MoTI, in Türkiye and is currently managing the Sustainability Department of Kalyon Enerji. She was one of the co-trainers of this course at IAIA19, IAIA22, on-line training of IAIA in 2022 and IAIA24.
Charlotte Bingham
Charlotte has 50 years’ experience in ESIA, starting in the US in 1977. For 18 years she prepared EAs for US and international infrastructure projects as part of a multi-disciplinary team and managed these teams for an A&E consulting firm. From 1994 through 2010 she administered EA processes and conducted EA review with USAID (Senior Regional Advisor at regional office in Nairobi), the World Bank (Africa Safeguards Coordinator and Lead Environmental Specialist) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC Senior Director and Practice Leader). As a consultant from 2010 through the present, she provides technical assistance on Involuntary Resettlement as well as ESIA and has served on expert panels.