Policy brief. Guidance on identifying resource-related impacts, risks, opportunities, needs; remediation of environmental hot spots; restoration of damaged/ degraded resources; reconstruction.
Impact Assessment
Impact Assessment
APELL MULTI-HAZARD TRAINING KIT FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Training kit to facilitate community awareness of potential hazards, strengthen stakeholder communication, and develop cooperative, local emergency plans. Summary of main issues for various hazards.
INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMMING: THE ENVIRONMENT MARKER
2-page document that helps to categorize extent of projects ’environmental impacts. Suggests tools and steps for mitigating environmental impacts.
ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN POST DISASTER SITUATIONS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR IMPLEMENTATION
How-to guide for environmental needs assessment. How ENA team should organize. Key issues. Approaches to stakeholder consultations. Integrating cross-cutting issues. How to present information.
HANDBOOK FOR ESTIMATING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF DISASTERS
Handbook on methods to identify and quantify social, economic, environmental disaster damages. Identifies priority sectors and regions. Estimates capacities to handle damage. Applicable to all disasters.
CONFLICT SENSITIVITY TOOLKIT
Handbook for incorporating conflict sensitivity. Tools to systematize conflict analysis and to make projects, monitoring and evaluation conflict-sensitive.
EMERGENCY SHELTER ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND ACTION CHECKLIST
Checklist to quickly assess shelter-related environmental impacts and identify practical local actions to address them. Designed for emergency and transitional shelter situations. Supplements full EIA.
SHELTER CLUSTER REFERENCE DOCUMENTS
Website with documents for use during emergency and recovery phase of humanitarian responses. Topics: IASC guidance, Shelter Cluster guidance, technical resources, and coordination.
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISOR OF THE SHELTER COORDINATION TEAM (SCT) AND RELATED GUIDANCE
Website with guidelines, toolkits, and handbooks on contingency planning, settlement planning, shelter specifications, programming, non-food items, cross-cutting aspects, and cluster coordination.
DISASTER RELIEF TRAINING COURSES
Website with information on wide variety of training courses related to disaster relief and management worldwide. Many topics, including security, water/sanitation/hygiene, shelter, gender, and health.