IDCG’s environment un in Africa, within its Design Office, is qualified and approved by MINEPDED, to carry out the following missions:
>> Conduct of studies.
- environmental impact study
- environmental audit
- risk study
- feasibility study of environmental projects
- eco balance
- life cycle analysis
- environmental diagnosis
>> Advice on sustainable management of natural resources.
>> Control, monitoring and environmental project management.
>> Training and environmental awareness of social actors.
>> Monitoring of changes in environmental quality indicators.
Our jobs:
Environmental and social impact study
IDCG is approved in Africa by different Ministries of the Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED) to carry out Environmental and Social Impact Studies (ESIA).
The ESIA is a systematic process intended to identify, predict and assess the effects of projects on their biological, physical and social environment.
In the practice of ESIA, the focus is on preventing, reducing or compensating for the adverse effects of the project. The ESIA therefore aims to propose corrective actions to avoid, mitigate or compensate for these harmful effects on the environment.
Thus, all the ESIAs carried out by IDCG consider the specific context of each project and take into account the nature of the work to be carried out. With this in mind, when carrying out the ESIA, our experts deploy a rigorous methodology to:
- Identify the elements of the biological, physical and social environment that will be affected by the project and for which an ecological and / or public concern is manifested;
- Analyze mitigation measures, monitoring, budget requirements and possibly capacity building requirements;
- Propose measures to improve, reduce and eliminate these impacts;
- Propose accompanying measures with a view to improving the living environment of neighboring populations;
- Identify the people affected through their private or socio-collective properties and propose a Compensation and Resettlement Plan if necessary.
This whole process makes it possible to:
- Provide decision-makers with information on the consequences of the planned activities for the environment;
- Promote sustainable development by taking appropriate reduction or enhancement measures.
To make development sustainable, the burden of environmental impacts must be reduced. These impacts are more complex, more important by their scale and have heavier potential effects depending on the complexity / specificity of the project and the sensitivity of its setting.
This is why the ESIA is of fundamental importance in development decision-making.
In many projects, this process also serves as a planning tool to promote sustainable development by integrating environmental considerations.