MULTI-SEASON BASELINE AND INDIGENOUS-PEOPLES PROGRAM

Multi-season baseline and Indigenous-Peoples program

Mining · Infrastructure · Engineering · Environment

CREDENTIAL

Engagement

Delivered

Authored the synthesis of a 24-month, three-season environmental and social baseline in a Congo Basin critical-habitat setting (300+ plant and 50+ mammal species including great apes and forest elephant), and designed the Free, Prior and Informed Consent process, resettlement and Indigenous-Peoples plans (IFC PS6/PS7) for forest-dependent communities along a major extractive corridor.

Context

A baseline is only as good as the seasons it covers. Critical-habitat settings demand more than a wet-season snapshot; they demand a record that stands up to lender scrutiny years later.

Approach

Two years of field data across three seasons were synthesized into one evidentiary baseline, and the social instruments (FPIC process, resettlement and Indigenous-Peoples plans) were designed against IFC Performance Standards 6 and 7.

Outcome

The synthesized baseline and its companion plans now anchor the environmental record of a major extractive corridor, from species inventories to community consent.

Standards

IFC PS6 / PS7 · FPIC / CLPE · ISO 17025