Mitigating Positive Impacts Without Improving Modalities /Regulations in the Project Area, the Perceived Benefits Will Not Be Realized
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Appendix C - Lake Natron Soda Ash ESIA C - 56 Mitigating Positive Impacts Without improving modalities /regulations in the project area, the perceived benefits will not be realized. The following initiatives will lead to realization of the mentioned positive impact. Setting by laws and adhering to them. Employment opportunities being awarded to educated people in the local area. Impart the local with technical knowledge through exchange program and on job training The contracts should understood by the communities Part of the Soda Ash should be utilized locally to establish or revitalize local industries. Stakeholders analysis The participants were requested to identify all stakeholders that in one way or another can support the project positively or affect negatively the efficiency of the project. These stakeholders ranged from central government, district authorities, non-governmental organizations, religion groups and communities. The identified stakeholders were clustered. The clustering was based on their interests, expectations and possible responsibilities in the project of soda ash development project. These groups will have several responsibilities in the implementation of the Environmental and Socio-economic Management Plan. The management plan has to be implemented in collaboration of all the stakeholders. Every stakeholder identified has a certain responsibilities during the project cycle. The identified stakeholders are listed on Table C-1 below:- Table C-1: List of Stakeholders Group Stakeholder. Authorities Ministries of Natural Resources and Tourism, Minerals and Energy, Water and Foreign affairs Pangani Basin/central basin Monduli, Ngorongoro and Longido District councils. Target group Livestock keepers Soda Ash business women Youth tour guides Tourism business operators Farmers Businesswomen selling beads Students Children Women who use makuruwili Traditional elders Co-operate Tourists Licensed hunters Hunting Companies Oxfam ERETO – NGO (Ngorongoro Pastoralist Program) MVIWATA/MVIWAMO – Agriculture and DRAFT Norconsult 3 May 2007 Appendix C - Lake Natron Soda Ash ESIA C - 57 health Religious denominations Campsites like CAMAKIA PINGOS – Human Rights ACORD – HIV/AIDS Administrators African wildlife foundation (AWF) TAWIRI Ngorongoro Conservation area (NCA) Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) Community Resources Team (CRT) Investor NDC TATA Environmental and Socio-Economic Management Plan The facilitator guided the participant in preparation of Environment and Socio-economic Monitoring Plan. Participants were divided into three working groups. Each group was assigned a certain numbers of impacts from the list. The group had to identify the required mitigation measures for the impacts. The groups also were required to identify from the list of stakeholders, institutions that will be responsible for implementation of the mitigation measures, the supervisors, the frequency of monitoring and the cost required to implement the mitigation measures. All these were presented in a form of a matrix table. On completion of the group work, during the plenary sessions, all participants from different groups were given a chance to comment and add more inputs on other colleagues work. The consensuses during the plenary session were taken as the workshop outputs. The facilitators further assisted the participants in identifying strategies for project improvement. The following, table below summarises the contents of the Environmental and Socio-economic Management Plan. DRAFT Norconsult 3 May 2007 Appendix C - Lake Natron Soda Ash ESIA C - 58 Table C-2: District Input to Environmental and Socio-Economic Management Plan IMPACTS MITIGATION MEASURE RESPONSIBLE SUPERVISOR MONITORING ESTIMATED COST (Tshs) Potential loss of Project area should be far away Investor and district Central and Local Before and after 1,000,000/= biodiversity due to from Flamingo gestation area councils Government (TAWIRI, project change in the use RAMSAR,WWF, IUCN, implementation of the Lake AWF) Potential change in food Government After every six 5,000,000/= security to the organisms living (Environmental months in or within the project area. Specialist) TANAPA, Further research should be done NCAA, FZS, Birdlife Identify biodiversity present in International the area and propose the mitigation measures Environmental Prepare sustainable Village Local Government During project 5,000,000/= degradation management system of government, (Natural Resource implementation (deforestation) harvesting forest products and investor and the Officer) tree planting communities Establish / improve Village Local Government All the time of 1,000,000/= environmental bylaws government, (Environment/social project investor and the committee, Natural implementation communities Resource Officer) (CBOs and NGOs) Potential increase Create community awareness Village Social security. All the project time 2,000,000/= in robbery and on civics and impacts of Government District Commissioner illegal drugs. robbery on community safety. Society Investor Improve patrol in wildlife area. OCD Central Government 4,000,000/= Village (NATURAL Government RESOURCES), Society TANAPA, NCAA Improve policing and its Village Central Government 28,000,000/= equipment Government (OCD) communities Hunting companies AWF DRAFT Norconsult 58 3 May 2007 Appendix C - Lake Natron Soda Ash ESIA C - 59 IMPACTS MITIGATION MEASURE RESPONSIBLE SUPERVISOR MONITORING ESTIMATED COST (Tshs) Increase of Educate communities regarding District Councils Government and other All the project time 2,000,000/= HIV/AIDS the HIV/AIDS infection. Investor (NDC and stakeholders (Community infections. TATA) Development Officer, Society health, ACORD, etc) Improve health centers. 35,000,000/= provide medical treatment (ARV) Provide counselling to affected people by the disease Provide protective (condom) Change in land Proper plans on land use to be District Councils District Council One year 8,000,000/= use. strictly followed. Investor (NDC and Land Officer Educate communities on proper TATA) land. Society GRAND TOTAL 91,000,000/= Increase in soil Prepare proper plans on land Agricultural District Councils and Every year 10,000,000/= erosion due to use. Extension officers Village Governments increased human activities. Plans for natural trees Society After every six 5,000,000/= plantation. months Follow policy/ rules and Society, After every three 8,000,000/= regulations on proper MULWANO,CRT, months agriculture and pastoralism ICA, HEIFA practice. INT,ERETO – NPP Enforce environmental/soil Society After every six 6,000,000/= conservation techniques and by- months laws. Negative impacts Carry out water demand District Water District Council Every year 5,000,000/= on Irrigation assessment. Engineer Central Government activities at Improve irrigation District Civil Village Government Every year 50,000,000/= Penyiny village infrastructure. Engineer DRAFT Norconsult 59 3 May 2007 Appendix C - Lake Natron Soda Ash ESIA C - 60 IMPACTS MITIGATION MEASURE RESPONSIBLE SUPERVISOR MONITORING ESTIMATED COST (Tshs) due to water Develop alternative sources of Extension officers After every three 14,000,000/= abstraction for the water such as rain water harvest Ward Executive months project uses where possible. Officer Search /develop other sources Village Executive Every year 6,000,000/= of water. Officer To provide education. World Vision Sub-total 104,000,000/= Decrease of wards, Provide entrepreneurship skills Extension officers District Council After every six 6,000,000/= district and to communities and different Community Ministry for work, and months national income groups. World vision Youth Development from tourism and Develop substitute income MVIWAMO Every year 4,000,000/= other related generating. NDC,TATA activities. -Establish productive group chemicals After every three 5,000,000/= project months -Establish SACCOS Provide employment to - - indigenous people in project area. Project management should After every six 20,000,000/= improve economic activities of months communities in the project areas, these include agriculture Sub - total 35,000,000/= and livestock keeping.(good seedlings and livestock vaccination) 9. Decreased To provide sexual and gender Extension officers, District Council After every three 20,000,000/= morals, values and education OXFAM, ACORD months discipline within CRT the communities. Educate people on keeping Traditional leaders, Village Government After every six 8,000,000/= ( Increased marital good cultural and traditions community, Non- months conflicts within within the communities Governmental families) Organizations, MVIWAMO, ICA Empowering the community Religious Groups Religious Groups Every time - spiritually Total 28,000,000/= DRAFT Norconsult 60 3 May 2007 Appendix C - Lake Natron Soda Ash ESIA C - 61 IMPACTS MITIGATION MEASURE RESPONSIBLE SUPERVISOR MONITORING ESTIMATED COST (Tshs) GRAND TOTAL 167,000,000/= Increased drop Labour laws should be enforced Investor District Council Quarterly TShs.2,670,0003= outs of school District Council Ministry for work, 8,010,000/= children and Ministry for work, employment and Youth engage in casual employment and Development employment. Youth Development Enforce the Ministry of Village District Council Quarterly Tshs. 8,010,000/= Education policy/by-laws Government particularly those related to Communities school attendance and drop outs Investor region Create awareness to District Council All District Councils After every six EURO 13,600 communities