In protracted crises, it is often difficult to clearly distinguish between the end of the crises and the beginning of the recovery phase. Therefore, relief and recovery efforts might might be parallel, ongoing activities. The environmental burden can, therefore, significantly increase when recovery efforts add to relief activities. During early… Read More
Assess, minimize and address negative environmental impacts throughout disaster recovery and reconstruction in order to create opportunities for communities to build back safer and in a more sustainable way. See here for a sector-specific overview of key environmental considerations. To increase sustainability and support longer-term development, recovery and reconstruction… Read More
The extent to which environmental issues have been addressed and how negative environmental impacts have been mitigated (or not) should be part of the final, annual or mid-term evaluation, depending on the project. In protracted crises, evaluation of the humanitarian response should also include the extent to which the response… Read More
The extent to which environmental issues have been addressed and how negative environmental impacts have been mitigated (or not) should be part of the final, annual or mid-term evaluation, depending on the project. Include environmental performance in the Operational Peer Review (OPR), or any equivalent internal peer review process. Key… Read More
During protracted crises, good information management and data sharing practices are valuable tools to facilitate the consideration of environmental considerations into the humanitarian response. Make use of the following data sets in order to support response planning and implementation activities: land cover and land use. known natural hazards and sources… Read More
During sudden-onset emergencies, the collection and sharing of data is instrumental to informing swift decision-making, planning, and avoid exacerbating risks and vulnerabilities. A timely and well-managed exchange of information on environmental issues early on and throughout in the emergency greatly supports the integration of environmental considerations in humanitarian action. Make… Read More
In protracted crises there are often more opportunities and time to get environmental issues on the humanitarian response table through the cluster system, inter-cluster coordination, or the Humanitarian Country Team where they exist. These fora enable strategic discussions and decision-making by senior management of humanitarian organizations (IASC). Humanitarian actors: Through… Read More
Be aware that sudden-onset crises often provide limited time to develop coordination mechanisms focusing on the environment. Robust emergency response preparedness is critical to ensuring strong coordination in emergency response. The coordination of environment in humanitarian action vastly improves with cross-sectoral and inter-sectoral working groups that help to coordinate… Read More
Response monitoring in protracted crises constitutes an ongoing, long-term activity. Due to the long time horizon of response operations, it is important to record environmental impacts to track changes in the environment and provide documentation against claims of environmental degradation caused by assistance operations. Environmental monitoring needs to relate to… Read More
Monitoring needs to relate to baseline information from earlier environmental assessments and analyses conducted during preparedness and/or initial stages of the emergency. Environmental impacts are monitored against the established baseline. Monitoring is essential to determine whether an activity should be discontinued or adapted due to its environmental impact. The perspective… Read More
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