Social Impact Assessment
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Rabel Burdge (Western Washington University, USA) and colleagues from other countries (see below) occasionally give two-day SIA Training Courses 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: Rabel Burdge will not be organizing SIA training courses during 2010. However, if you would like to sponsor an SIA course in your in your area contact Rabel at the e-mail address below. However, Nick Taylor may be organizing an SIA course in Christchurch, New Zealand toward the end of 2010. For an update on SIA training courses by Nick Taylor to to www.tba.co.nz 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.
To view an example of a recent SIA course outline given by Rabel go to:
www.socialimpactassessment.net/Calgary2009SIAcourse.htm
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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.
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