E&S Impact Assessments
JGP has successfully conducted Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) on more than 750 projects. This experience includes over 90 Category A high-risk projects (as per Lender categorization criteria) as well as others requiring simplified or focus-specific studies. Many have been developed exclusively to meet Lender requirements and were not intended to meet legal permitting requirements. ESIAs compliant with local legislations and resulting in environmental permits have been developed in Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Guyana, Dominican Republic, Portugal, Mozambique, Cape Verde, San Tomé and Principe and Tanzania.
JGP is recognized as one of the few consulting firms experienced with development of extremely large ESIAs. These studies have been concluded on several large linear projects (over 1,500 Km), as well as on projects in regions that are highly sensitive either socially or environmentally.
Public Consultation and Stakeholder Engagement
Management of Public Consultation processes is part of the environmental permitting cycle and as such is an area of great expertise as this has been necessary in most of the projects permitted by JGP. Consultation can vary from limited single-event procedures to very encompassing stakeholder engagement programs, sometimes including a large amount of hearings and disclosure activities in various formats. During some permitting processes JGP has prepared and conducted over 100 consultation and disclosure events.
Design of E&S Management Plans
Detailed Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMP) are required as part of the project impact assessment cycle. These can be extremely diverse and vary significantly from one country to another or even between regions in the same country. JGP´s experience in formulation of ESMPs includes the whole typology of sectors in which we act and have been developed for projects in 16 countries.
Permitting Process Management
Environmental permitting procedures frequently involve several government agencies, sometimes at national, sub-national and local levels. In addition to the responsible Environmental Agency, these may include forestry and/or Conservation Unit management entities, health sector, cultural property, and regional or local planning entities, among others. JGP has vast experience in modeling complex permitting procedures and assuring multi-entity requirements proceed in parallel as possible and total timelines are optimized.