Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of Oil Exploration/Exploitation in the North Albertine Rift (North Kivu and Orientale Provinces) – Scoping Study

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The Strategic Environmental Assessment serves to set the background and conceptual, legislative, regulatory, biological, ethnological, sociological, etc. frameworks on which any project-specific Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) can be conducted.

The Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) procedure in two phases:

1) a framing study,

2) the SEA itself. The present mission concerns the framing study which aims to :

• Describe the institutional and legal contexts that govern oil exploration/exploitation in the DRC and those that ensure an environment that guarantees the sustainable development of the populations of the Rift region;
• Clearly define the geographical, physical, biological and human setting of the SEA;
• List the sources and receptors of impacts and the methods and means to study them during the SEA;
• Collect the data, or sources of data, to be analyzed and compared in the cost/benefit or cost-effectiveness analyses10 of SEA alternatives and variants;
• Define the issues to be addressed in the SEA considering the specific context in which the program/policy is prepared and is likely to be implemented.