Monitoring and Evaluation

This guide can serve as a reference document for the entire international PHE community. Although funded by USAID, A Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Population-Health-Environment Programs applies to PHE programs sponsored by other funding agencies, governments, or NGOs. Specifically, the guide provides a menu of indicators to be used selectively as part of the M&E of regional programs and country projects, reflecting the locally based nature of PHE programs. The indicator descriptions presented herein are designed to promote standardization of definitions and concepts among the international PHE community. However, even though standardization is useful, organizations should adapt indicators to their specific circumstances. This approach ensures that indicators are relevant to specific organizations and promotes ownership of the M&E proA Guide for Monitoring and Evaluating Population-Health-Environment Programs 15 cess. That said, organizations that choose to adapt indicators should clearly state the modified definitions and methods in their M&E plans.

The new briefing note addresses systematic approaches to managing social risk and opportunity for large projects. The document summarises lessons from EAP’s extractive industries and public infrastructure programmes, including collaborative research with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), International Alert and the Actuarial Profession/Institution of Civil Engineers Joint Working Party on Project Risk Appraisal. It also draws on leading thinking on social risk management from organisations such as the IFC, the World Resources Institute and the CSR Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The Mesa de Diálogo y Consenso CAO-Cajamarca was convened to address and resolve conflicts between Yanacocha, the largest gold mine in Peru, and the surrounding communities affected by its operations. The Mesa sought consensus based solutions under a framework of good faith, cooperation, and tolerance.

The guide outlines the use of Social Impact Assessments by the oil and gas industry. It provides managers of existing oil and gas operations or new projects with an understanding of how to make the best use of SIAs.

The Framework provides guidance to users on how to establish a systematic stakeholder engagement process that generates the indicators, targets, and reporting systems needed to ensure to ensure greater transparency, effective responsiveness to stakeholders and improved overall organisational performance.

Globally, two standards have taken on particular importance in the area of sustainability assurance. The AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS), launched in March 2003 by AccountAbility; and the IAASB’s International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000 , which all professional accounting networks must comply with from January 1st 2005.

This Supplement to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 2002 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines identifies aspects of mining and metals companies’ operations that are significant to a discussion of sustainable development by companies in the sector, but which are not captured by the reporting elements and indicators in the 2002 Guidelines.

The Global Reporting Initiative “G3” Guidelines for Sustainability Reporting were released in October 2006 following several year’s ofresearch, development, and consensus-seeking by multi-stakeholder technical working groups, each assigned to focus on different parts of the Guidelines ending with a periodof public participation and comment.

This document provides the insights of the The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) Pipeline Project. The planning, design and construction of the Baku-Tbilisi- Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline provides a good example of an IFC-financed project that faced a wide variety of complex and often difficult social and environmental challenges.