The Humanitarian Impact Institute conducts Environmental Impact Assessments for humanitarian and development actors and their current or proposed programs, including different social impact indicators if required.

Humanitarian and development programs are often implemented in sensitive, resource depleted and remote environments. This has a significant impact on how they can be conducted – humanitarian Environmental Impact Assessments require much more careful designs as a result. 

Baselines should take into account tcontextual factors of the programs including their remoteness, the balance between humanitarian need, emissions and environmental degradation.

Ultimately, the EIA will identify opportunities for mitigation of (different scopes of) emissions as well as opportunities to limit or reverse environmental degradation through initiatives integrated into humanitarian and development design – for example through DRR, restorative agricultural practices and cash for work.