Gwen van Boven
Technical sectretary
The Facility for Infrastructure Development (ORIO) requested the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) to perform a quick scan of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report on the (re)development of the port of Ziguinchor in the Casamance region of Senegal. The aim of this quick review was quality assurance.
The NCEA checked whether the draft ESIA was in line with the national regulations, as well as with the IFC’s (International Finance Corporation) Performance Standard 1 on ESIA.
The NCEA observed that the structure of the ESIA report does not entirely follow the structure of the approved and validated Terms of Reference. Also technically, the contents of the ESIA is not complete. The NCEA recommends therefore, among others: