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?