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The choice of instrument follows from screening: it depends on the nature of the project, the sensitivity of the receiving environment and the scale of expected impacts. In Senegal, the Environment Code (Law No. 2023-15 of 2 August 2023) and its implementing texts provide for four instruments — the initial environmental analysis (AEI), the in-depth impact assessment (EIA), the environmental audit and the strategic environmental assessment. Funders add their own classification — High, Substantial, Moderate or Low for the World Bank, categories 1 to 4 for the AfDB. We always run an upfront screening that tells you precisely which instrument is required, and why.

For a medium-sized project, allow roughly two to four months from scoping to draft report, plus the time needed for administrative review and the public hearing. The determining factors are the size of the study area, the season (site access, ecological surveys), the number of stakeholders to consult and the availability of baseline data. You receive a detailed schedule with the scoping note.

Yes. Our assignments have covered Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Cameroon and Belgium, as well as three transboundary basins — the Senegal River (OMVS), the Gambia (OMVG) and the Niger — within regional programmes that also covered Guinea, Mali and The Gambia. For each assignment we mobilise a network of associated experts — GIS specialists, socio-economists, ecologists, GBV specialists — suited to the country context.

That is our core business. We work fluently with the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework and its ten Environmental and Social Standards, the AfDB Integrated Safeguards System and its Operational Safeguards — to whose 2024 update our founder contributed — as well as the IFC Performance Standards and IFAD’s SECAP procedure. Every deliverable comes with a compliance grid documenting, standard by standard, how each requirement is addressed.

A study is only worth what its implementation is worth. We remain available for the administrative review of the file, facilitation of the public hearing, translation of the management plan into a contractor-level plan, training of project and contractor teams, and environmental and social supervision during works.

They are treated as a full component, not an annex. We set up a grievance mechanism with a dedicated, confidential and survivor-centred channel for sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment cases, with multiple entry points, defined response times and an anonymised monitoring register.

Yes, and every training course comes with the teaching and methodological tools needed for it to take root: guides, terms-of-reference templates, compliance matrices, data collection forms. The aim is not to train once, but to leave the institution with a capability that stays.

We support the full pipeline: identification of the project idea, theory of change, concept note and then a full proposal meeting the requirements of the adaptation, mitigation and private sector windows of the Green Climate Fund, the GEF and the Adaptation Fund, with the results framework and economic analysis they expect.