Lecture on environment management

1. Environmental Management
Framework (EMF) for Small Scale
Rural Development Projects
CEE’s experience in supporting poverty
alleviation initiatives in Andhra Pradesh

2. About CEE:
 National institute established in 1984: centre
of excellence in environment education,
supported by MoEF
 Head Office: Ahmedabad
 Southern Regional Office: Bangalore
 AP State Office: Hyderabad
 established in 2000

3. CEE’s role as Environment Agency
 CEE functions as Environment Agency for
the state Govt. Poverty alleviation
programme funded by World Bank
 Integrating Environmental management into
small scale rural development projects –
Environment Management Framework (EMF)

4. EMF - Objectives
 To ensure that neither the livelihoods of the
poor nor the environment are compromised
 Explore possibilities of making the efforts to
improve livelihoods as well as conservation of
the environment complimentary so that there
are sustained benefits from the development
activities initiated

5. EMF Strategy
 Mitigating any negative environmental
impacts that may emerge from the sub-
projects
 Ensuring the long-term sustainability of
benefits from sub-projects by securing the
natural resource base on which they are
dependent
 Facilitating Proactive Subprojects

6. Components of EMF
 Environmental assessment
 Proactive subprojects

7. Environmental Assessment
 Part of every project appraisal
 Detail or level of assessment depends on
project type
 Suggests ways in which positive impacts and
be enhanced and negative impacts controlled

8. EA Process
Specifically, EA includes:
 Screening to identify the level of
environmental assessment required
 Assessment, specific to the nature and scale
of the sub-project

9. Screening
 Can the sub-project be taken up?
 Dos and Don'ts based on
 Laws, Regulations of GOI and GOAP
 Safeguard Policies of the World Bank
 If yes, what is the level of EA required?

10. Level of assessment
Level Details
Level 0 Doesn’t depend on or use any natural resource
directly, doesn’t adversely impact any natural
resource, detailed assessment not required
Level 1 Marginal or short-term impact or positive
impact on the environment
Level 2 Significant or irreversible or long-term negative
impact
Level 3 Severe adverse environmental impact, which
cannot be mitigated within a feasible timeframe
and budget

11. Proactive subprojects
 Use of alternate resources (bio gas plants, solar devices)
 Efficient use of existing resources (fuel efficient cook stoves,
micro irrigation systems,)
 Create or enhance natural resources to support livelihoods
(energy plantations, water harvesting)
 Create or enhance systems for sustainable management of
natural resources (pasture land management, IPM practices)

12. Implementation
 Designing and facilitating the implementation of
EMF (development of system and tools for
assessment)
 Capacity building (main and refresher trainings)
 Material development (tool box, hand books, flash
cards, posters)
 Monitoring (six monthly supervision visits)

13. EA tool
Parts of a tool
 Use of natural resources
 Impact on natural resources (use of resource
and waste release)
 Mitigation measures
 Details of mitigation measures

14. Common environmental issues
 Livestock: fodder
scarcity, improper
shelter, improper
composting

15. Common environmental issues
 Agriculture: Heavy
use of chemicals, lack
of technical support

16. Common environmental issues
 NTFP: Unsustainable
methods of harvesting,
improper storage

17. Common environmental issues
 Brick making and
Pottery: Heavy
consumption of fuel
wood, extraction of
soil from
agricultural lands

18. Examples of application of EA
Subproject proposed: Sheep rearing
Suggestions after EA:
Rotational grazing
Stall feeding
Subproject proposed: Cotton cultivation in 5 acres
Suggestions after EA:
Cotton+ Jowar : 2 acres
Redgram + Soybean: 1 acre
Cotton: 2 acres

19. Out comes
 Agriculture: Use of organic manures, change
in cropping systems, micro irrigation
methods, mulching, etc.
 Livestock: Fodder cultivation, composting the
manure, fodder enrichment, rotational
grazing, supplementary feed, immunization,
shed construction, etc.
 NTFP: Sustainable extraction, permission
from forest department, etc.

20. Implementation of mitigation
measures

21. Implementation of mitigation
measures

22. Best Practices

23. Dairy

24. Shankaravarappadu Village
Prakasam

25. Kurnool

26. Silage making
Santha seetha rampuram
Srikakulam

27. Shed management

28. Srikakulam

29. Sheep rearing

30. Well managed pen
Adilabad

31. Penning in orchards Shifting sheds
Srikakulam

32. Ananthapur
Leaf material used as bed

33. Stall feeding for Sheep
Chitoor

34. Dry fodder storage
Ananthapur

35. Agriculture

36. Seeds/saplings

37. Srikakulam
 Mango saplings developed by grafting

38. Pest management

39. Trap crops (castor and marigold):
Chittoor

40. Mahaboobnagar
Pheromone traps

41. Nutrient Management

42. Farm yard manure
Srikakulam

43. Tank Silt application

44. Use of Vermicompost

45. Intercropping

46. Chittoor

47. Mahaboobnagar

48. Soil and water conservation

49. Drip irrigation
Ananthapur

50. Rengareddy

51. Adilabad

52. Farm ponds

53. Furrow Irrigation
Ananthapur

54. Mulching with pongamia
Ananthapur

55. Medicinal and aromatic plants

56. Lemon grass cultivation
Adilabad

57. Medicinal mentha cultivation

58. Bio Diesel Plantations

59. Pongamia plantation

60. Bio diesel generator

61. The new approach…..
 Capacity building the
community to integrate
environmental
management into their
livelihoods

62. Thank you