Integrated impact assessment

Governments and industry increasingly need holistic, independent impact studies that integrate socio-economic, environmental, political, and cultural factors. They provide planners, developers, and investors with a comprehensive understanding of the beneficial and harmful impacts – both direct and indirect – of major investments and projects.

Menas takes an innovative multidisciplinary approach to producing integrated impact assessments. Each is tailored to the circumstances of the project. Our approach typically involves ...

• a scoping study to establish the terms of reference
• recruitment and mobilisation of local/regional and international specialists
• integration of a wide range of social science disciplines
• collation of the available baseline data sets
• management of a stakeholder consultation programme
• studies of relevant comparator regions
• the use of independent expert advisory boards to ensure credibility
• dissemination of key findings and recommendations
• project evaluation and debriefing

Integrated impact assessments are invaluable during the early planning of development programmes and projects and for later monitoring and evaluation as well.