1. Motivating LOP environmental compliance: USAID’s mandatory environmental procedures exist to assure environmentally sound design and management (ESDM) of development activities. The workshop begins by defining ESDM and establishing why ESDM must be a necessary and explicit objective for successful development.

• Articulate the ESDM concept and
  common causes of failure to achieve ESDM.
• Explain why ESDM must be a necessary and explicit objective for successful development.
• Articulate key action principles for achieving ESDM

2. Building Core EIA Concepts & Skills: USAID’s environmental procedures are a specific implementation of the general environmental impact assessment (EIA) process. An understanding of the basic EIA process greatly facilitates understanding USAID’s procedures, and basic proficiency in a set of core EIA skills is required for effective compliance during project implementation.

• Explain the relationship between ESDM and the EIA process.
• Describe the key elements of the EIA process.
• Demonstrate basic proficiency in the core EIA skills of identifying significant impacts/issue of concern and design of mitigation and monitoring.

3. Mastering Environmental Compliance Requirements for Project Implementation, of which the primary one is fulfillment of environmental management conditions specified in approved 22 CFR 216 environmental review documentation.
   
   After surveying LOP environmental compliance, the workshop focuses on the implementation of environmental management conditions. The environmental mitigation and monitoring plan (EMMP) is the key instrument for systematic implementation of these conditions—and thus for achieving ESDM.

• Describe the basic elements of LOP compliance, and attendant roles and responsibilities
• Demonstrate basic proficiency in developing environmental mitigation and monitoring plans
• Articulate the environmental compliance reporting requirements attendant to EMMP implementation
• Convey to project management key actions and systems changes required to systematically implement, monitor and report on environmental conditions.

4. Understanding Key “Special Topics” in Compliance: Focused “special topic” sessions address the environmental compliance and management aspects of selected current, complex and emerging issues in the USAID portfolio and operating environment.

Explain the key compliance issues involved in each special topic, and articulate recommended best practice