CONFLICT RISK AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Ottawa, 3rd May, 2004

WHAT IS CRIA?A set of tools which enable companies to be conflict

sensitive:

Anticipate, monitor and assess conflict impact – two ways Develop mitigating strategies Applicable throughout the project cycle Based on existing company assessment processes Rooted in legal/voluntary regulatory instruments Mixture of doing things differently and doing different things

entry point

screeningaerial

geologicalpre-feasibility

testingconstruction

operation closure

Macro and local context analysis

Additional components for beginning at this stage of the project cycle

Questions & steps for sensitising each component of the project cycle

THE CRIA PROJECT CYCLE

relocationrelocation

Impact identification

Mitigation & design

compensationcompensation

communitycommunityengagementengagement

Macro context analysis Impact identification Mitigation & design

CRIA – component parts

Screening – macro context analysis Scoping Baseline data Impact identification Analysis and significance rating Mitigation design Monitoring and evaluation

CRIA and project finance

WHY?WHY? Business case Policy coherence Public money – public good

WHAT/HOW?WHAT/HOW? Insist on CRIA (+ other good practice) Undertake context analysis (World Bank CAF) Conflict categorisation Evaluation

Linking CRIA & HRIA Value added:Value added:

Process National/local Mitigation/peacebuilding Company perspective Grounded

Advocacy strategy:Advocacy strategy: Impact assessment overload Synergy?