Social Impact Assessment
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Rabel Burdge (Western Washington University, USA) and colleagues from other countries (see below) will be giving a series of two-day SIA Training Courses during the 2009 calendar year for planners; consultants; government agency personnel; development workers for domestic and international donor organizations, extension and community development workers; as well as faculty and students in town and regional planning, environmental studies, engineering, the social sciences and design arts; and any person wanting to learn about or do social impact assessment either as a stand-alone activity or part of environmental or other types of assessments. The course by Rabel is titled: Making Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Count in the Planning Process for Planners and Resource Managers. (other instructors have similar titles) Social Impact
Assessment is the systematic analysis in advance
of the likely impacts a proposed action (project, policy or plan) will have on
the day-to-day life (environment) of persons and communities. The basic SIA
course will provide the knowledge, understanding and technical skills to do
social impact assessment at the community and project level for a variety of
development and policy proposals.
To achieve this goal, we use a combination of instructor presentations and
group activity around a practical case study to achieve the following
objectives: At the Delta Inn Vancouver Airport, Richmond, BC, Canada. Rabel Burdge (USA) is the instructor. The two day SIA training course costs $US 495 and includes lunch and refreshment breaks both days, the three new SIA books and all course handouts. To register and view the course outline click on the link below. You may contact Rabel at burdge@comcast.net or phone +1-360-676-9892. The deadline for registration is 13 April, 2009. After that date registrations accepted on a space available basis. Details on how to reach the venue and receipts will be distributed after confirmation of the registration fee. For those staying overnight in Vancouver we have a special rate of $CAN 129.00 (plus applicable taxes) per night at the Delta Inn at the Vancouver Airport--the address is 3500 Cessna Dr. Richmond, BC (the venue for the training course). To make a reservation call (604) 278-1241, (800) 268-1133 or email dvareservations@deltahotels.com The group name is "Rabel Burdge SIA Training Course." You must make your hotel arrangements by 3 April, 2009. Prices cannot be guaranteed after that date. The Delta Inn is located 5 minutes from the Vancouver, B.C. airport and provides free pick-up and drop-off service every 20 minutes. Parking on site is $CAN 10.00 per day. The room rate does not include breakfast, but welcoming coffee and tea will be provided each morning in the training room. Check in for the course (in the Lockheed room of the Delta Inn) starts at 8:30am and class starts promptly at 9:00am--please be on time. Enrollment is limited to 20 persons!
To view the course outline and register go to:
www.socialimpactassessment.net/SIAcourseApril09Vancouver.htm
May 16-17, 2009--Accra, Ghana, West Africa in conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) Details will be available in February of 2009
Accra, Ghana, West Africa in conjunction with the annual meeting of the
International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). The Instructors are
Jacquie Tracey (Australia) and Sheridan Cokes (Australia). Training course
fee is $US 395.00 and includes all course materials, lunch
and refreshment breaks both days. To register, go to
www.iaia.org click on Conferences and next on IAIA09 Main Page.
There you will find details on the SIA training course, a registration form and
a link to hotel reservations in the Accra, Ghana area. You many contact Jacquie at jacquie@coakesconsulting.com or phone +61-2-9380 2032. The deadline for registration is May 10, 2009—after that entrance is on a space available. Participants in the training course not registered for the IAIA conference will be assessed an additional $US 60.00 fee. On site registration for the training courses and the IAIA conference begins at the Accra Convention Center at 3pm on Saturday May 16 and will be open again the following morning at 7:30am at the Accra, Ghana Convention Center. Enrollment is limited to 30 persons! July 2-3, 2009 in Vienna, Austria in conjunction with the 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM). Details will be available in January of 2009 Vienna, Austria, in conjunction with the 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) Being held July 2-10, 2009. The Symposium is convened and organized by BOKU. Instructor for this SIA course is Rabel Burdge (USA). The course lasts two days (Thursday (2nd) and Friday (3rd)) and costs €400 (€440 for non-symposium participants) and includes the three new SIA books (a $US 57.00 value) plus all course materials, lunch and morning and afternoon refreshment breaks both days. To view the course outline go to: www.socialimpactassessment.net/SIAcourseISSRM09.htm You many also contact Rabel at burdge@comcast.net or phone +1-360-676-9892.The deadline for registration is June 15, 2009, after that attendance is on a space available basis. To register go to www.issrm2009.org and click on programs. There you will find details on registering for SIA training course, the Symposium, accommodations in Vienna plus other information about the Country of Austria. On site registration begins at 8:00am at the course venue on July 2nd.
Symposium participants may sign up and pay for the course with
their symposium registration. SIA course participants not wishing to attend the
symposium should contact Mia Landauer
mia.landauer@boku.ac.at and Tel. +43 699 129 08 106 to register for the course.
Participants in the SIA training course not registered for the ISSRM Symposium
will pay the fee of € 440. For information on joining the International Association for Society and Resource Management (IASRM) and receiving the journal Society and Natural Resources e-mail: snr@hass.usu.edu
Qualifications and Experience C. Nicholas Taylor is a founding Director of Taylor Baines & Associates in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been involved since the early 80s in the development of approaches and techniques for social impact assessment. He has edited a special issue on SIA for Project Appraisal and has a major text, Social Assessment: Theory, Process and Techniques, first published in 1990, revised in 1995 and again in 2004. He has led numerous, successful courses on SIA around the world and has worked on SIA capacity building initiatives in South Africa, Australia and Malaysia. James Baines is a co-founding director of Taylor Baines & Associates in Christchurch, New Zealand. Between 2000 and 2006, Baines was the section coordinator for the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Section of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) and remains active in the organization. In the past few years, he has pursued interests in more integrated assessment, linking different assessment disciplines as well as linking technical assessments with stakeholder participation. In 2002, along with Nick Taylor, he was engaged by the UNDP to assist the Federal Government of Malaysia in institutionalizing Social Impact Assessment in various levels of government in that country. Sheridan Coakes is Director of Coakes Consulting (Australia). She has worked extensively with rural and urban communities across Australia in the development of social impact assessment and community involvement programs in all phases of project and policy development. Other areas of expertise include community profiling and needs assessment, social indicator development, values assessment, program evaluation and stakeholder analysis and risk communication. Coakes has been involved in large-scale and very controversial public and private sector resource development projects across Australia, and as a result has developed strong links with a range of Federal and State government agencies and private sector organizations in mining, oil and gas, fisheries, forestry and agricultural sectors. Jacqueline
Tracey is a Senior Associate at Coakes Consulting (Australia) and has nearly twenty years of experience in assessing, monitoring
and evaluating the socio-economic aspects of natural resource and environmental
management. She has worked extensively with government, regional bodies, key
environmental and industry groups, rural and regional communities and businesses
in the resource sector. Tracey offers particular experience in the areas of
forestry, agriculture, native vegetation, and water resource management. She has
assessed the socio-economic impacts of changes in access to and management of
forestry, native vegetation and water management. She has been involved in the
development and implementation of large structural adjustment and mitigation
packages for the native timber industry, groundwater allocation and native
vegetation management on private land.
Organize an SIA training course in your area. If interested in organizing an SIA training course in your area contact Rabel at burdge@comcast.net We provide the trainers and all course materials. The local organizer is responsible for the honorarium and travel expense of the trainers and arranging the local venue and catering.
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