Environmental and Social Assessment Highlights
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Team leader and team member on environmental and social assessment missions for projects in agriculture, infrastructure, health education and potable water in Mali, Suriname, Yemen, Cameroon and Burkina Faso
Miscellaneous Missions
- Publications:
- UNDP: 6.1, 6.2, 6.6
- Inter-American Development Bank: 7.1
- Book Chapters: 9.2
| Technical Sector | Role | Mission | Country | Consulting firm/Donor |
| Resettlement | Gender Specialist | Team member conducting a revision of the environmental assessment of a proposed loan for the rehabilitation of the Office du Niger and the development of new small irrigation perimeter | Mali | Buursink International Consultants for the World Bank |
| Agriculture | Gender Specialist | On six-person team for social and environmental assessment for Inter-American Development Bank Agriculture and Trade policy loan | Suriname | Buursink International Consultants for the Inter-American Development Bank |
| Infrastructure (highway, ports, railroad, air travel) | Team Leader/Social Scientist | Led three-person team that collaborated with the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Works to inform their staff and stakeholders about the environmental issues related to a new World Bank-funded program to rehabilitate the country’s transportation infrastructure | Cameroon | Buursink International Consultants for the World Bank |
| Environmental and Social Management Plan | Co-Team Leader | Backstopped (from the US) the design and execution of the environmental assessments of two large World Bank-funded environmental-conservation projects | Yemen | Buursink International Consultants for the World Bank |
| Infrastructure (railroads)
Crime Poaching |
Team Leader | Led four-person team associated with the environmental assessment of the privatization plan for the Cameroonian railroad that was tasked with (1) to analyzing the factors contributing to uncontrolled crime and poaching on the railroad; and based on this analysis (2) making recommendations for reducing the negative impact of crime and poaching on the profitability of the railroad | Cameroon | Buursink International Consultants for the World Bank |
| Health
Education Potable water |
Gender and Social Specialist | Member of team undertaking the main fieldwork phase of case studies of the experience of Burkina Faso in implementing the principles of the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) | Burkina Faso | World Bank |
| Agriculture
Natural Resource Management Health Urban Infrastructure |
Team Leader | Led five-person team that prepared the only national case study for the Bank-wide Learning Process on Participatory Development based on interviews with beneficiaries, donors, and administrators of associated World Bank projects in four sectors | Burkina Faso | World Bank AFTEN |
| Semi-Arid Agriculture | Deputy Team Leader | Represented UNSO (United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office) in the identification of environmental needs for the fourth UNDP Country Programme of Nigeria during the UNDP Fifth Cycle 1991-1996 | Nigeria | Buursink International Consultants for UNSO/UNDP |