Environmental and Social Impact Assessment - Gibe III

Gibe III – Environmental and Social Impact Assessment 300 ENV R CS 002 C - A9003099
an environmental and social monitoring system and establish a databases as well as support system for
data storage and dissemination. Such system will assist for general state of the environment reporting.
II Monitoring during construction: Most of the monitoring will comprise visual observations during site
inspection and will be carried out at the same time as the engineering monitoring activities. However,
factors to be monitored include: air quality, noise, water quality, soil erosion, waste management,
natural vegetation, equipment, fuelling and maintenance, health and safety, cultural and historical
assets, social status, wildlife, etc.
III Monitoring during operation: The principal fields of interest requiring monitoring (in the river and
reservoir) during operation include: hydrology, riparian release, reservoir sedimentation (annual
volume of sediment transported into reservoir), water quality (water quality at dam discharge and at
various points along the reservoir and river), aquatic ecology, fisheries (species, populations. etc.),
wildlife (species, distribution, numbers), public health and disease vectors, safety, compensation and
resettlement, buffer area management, construction site restoration, etc.
7 Environmental Audit
The cost of systematic evaluation of the environmental and social performance of the project will be covered by
the project.
12.2 Funding Mechanism
The total funding needed for identified activities is presented in Table 12.1.
EEPCO is responsible for providing these resources from the national budget for all activities related to the
implementation of environmental mitigation, management, monitoring and training programmes. Therefore,
EEPCO is responsible to set aside marginal benefits from the exploitation of the hydropower development
for financing the long term financial needs of the social and environmental needs of the area such as
environmental mitigation and management, resettlement, social development projects, development and
management of buffer zones and watershed, environmental monitoring, capacity building and training, etc.
With this, EEPCO would demonstrate its commitment to its own environmental policy “to work towards
realizing the objectives of sustainable development and continual improvements in its environmental
performance”. It will also decrease its short- and long-term liabilities and improve its public image by complying
with existing national environmental regulations and ensuring that construction work does not adversely affect
the environment and social community resources.
12.3 Implementation Schedule
An indicative schedule for implementation of the proposed environmental mitigation, management, monitoring,
RAP, Training and study tour, has been prepared and presented in Figure 12.1.
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