Lender Compliance Due Diligence and Gap Analysis Technical Assistance

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Lender Compliance Due Diligence and Gap Analysis Technical Assistance

Financing from International Finance Institutions are subject to strict environmental and social performance criteria being met and maintained by a project. Most private lending banks are also incorporating and adopting similar standards to those of other big international institutions.

Project financing can saddle the financier with unexpected EHS and sustainability liabilities and also miss out on significant operational improvement opportunities, without proper due diligence. Unplanned cleanup costs, regulatory penalties, or capital improvements can dramatically undermine the value of a business transaction.

Due diligence is an extremely important process and exercise in financial transactions as it allows both the financier to make an informed decision as to whether it should finance/ participate in the project, with greater transparency, investors, lenders, and buyers can have confidence in the valuation model and their level of exposure.

Sellers, meanwhile, can benefit from a more competitive and accelerated sale process that maximizes their return and protects their interests by building EHS and sustainability into the terms of the transaction.

A thorough due diligence review of the borrower ensures that the financial transaction does not involve legal risks that the financier is unaware of that could endanger his financial position.

At Eco & Partner Consult Limited, our thorough audit and due diligence processes provide financiers with confidence and ensures that risks involved in a financial transaction are understood and that EHS requirements are met.

We offer the following technical services:

  • Evaluation of compliance with environmental, biodiversity and social elements of performance requirements,
  • Gap analysis reports identifying areas of non-compliance with Institutional requirements.
  • Assessing significance and associated risks that any gaps pose to lenders and borrowers.
  • Environment and social monitoring.

Environment & Biodiversity

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    Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

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    Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

    Effective monitoring of the environment and an improved understanding of the same requires valuable information and data that can be only be extracted through application of Geospatial technologies such as remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems.

    Eco & Partner Consult GIS Department offers a wide range of GIS services comprising of data analysis, Remote Sensing and Visual Impact Assessment. GIS and Remote Sensing techniques are key to day to day analysis of spatial and temporal variability providing quick solutions to various problems in today’s growing business environment. There is growing recognition of GIS and Remote Sensing tools together with Visual Impact Assessment and many companies are integrating these solutions in their day to day operations.

    Our GIS professionals have an extensive knowledge base in integrating spatial data from various sources such as Garmin Global Positioning Systems (GPS), ESRI ArcGIS, QGIS, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Land Development, Google Earth Engine, TerrSet, ERDAS Imagine, and Global Mapper; designing and managing relational database; database querying and statistical analysis.

    Eco & Partner has fully-fledged GIS Unit with vast experience in GIS, Remote Sensing and Visual

    Impact Assessment consultancy services namely:

    • Aerial photogrammetry and mapping using UAV
    • Geographic referencing of photography, base maps and data base development
    • Image classification and analysis in remote sensing environment
    • Global Positioning System (GPS) data collection and advanced mapping
    • Environmental Data Management Systems (EDMS) development and implementation
    • Data manipulation and conversion.
    • GPS field data collection and post processing
    • GIS database creation
    • Custom, interactive web map development
    • Central data storage and management
    • Visual Resource analysis (Zone of Theoretical Visibility, viewsheds, virtual landscapes to show visual impacts and assessment of projects)
    • Land use analysis & planning
    • Site Suitability analysis
    • Watershed analysis
    • Land cover analysis; sensitive plant surveys
    • Biodiversity including wildlife habitat mapping and modelling

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    Environmental and social permitting

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    Environmental and social permitting

    At Eco & Partner, we pride ourselves on achieving effective environmental protection outcomes and aim to make sure that our clients have the required support, verifications and permits to ensure compliance throughout a project’s lifecycle.

    By anticipating and addressing permit requirements early on in the project design, we help implement a permitting strategy, development schedule and mitigation plans that expedite permit acquisition and compliance. Expert regulatory negotiations throughout the project help resolve technical and external stakeholder issues and create favorable permit conditions while achieving the ultimate goals of maintaining project schedules and ensuring compliance.
    We support clients in developing and maintaining integrated and discipline customized programs for environmental, health and safety compliance that add value to businesses.
    We also help our clients secure and maintain the necessary environmental permits to comply and operate with complex regulatory requirements.
    We enable our clients conform to all environmental and social compliance obligations at the local and state levels, with proven expertise and experience in working with the private and public organizations across a variety of sectors providing a broad range of technical and business solutions.

    We offer the following technical assistance services:
    Environment and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) permitting
    Noise permitting
    Waste discharging permitting/Water abstraction permitting
    Waste transportation, treatment and disposal permitting
    Permitting to carry out a regulated activity in a Wetland, River bank and Lake shore
    Permitting to carry out activities in mountainous and hilly areas
    Technical assistance in identifying permits required.

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      Plot No.16A Ntinda II Road,
      P.O. Box 23989, Kampala, Uganda
      +256 319291830


        Environmental and Social Monitoring

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        Environmental and Social Monitoring

        Environmental and Social monitoring is used in the preparation of environmental impact assessments, as well as in many circumstances in which human activities carry a risk of harmful effects on the natural environment during their implementation.

        There is increasing demand for organizations to manage and minimize the impact their operations have on the environment and the community, either to ensure compliance with laws and regulations or to mitigate risks of harmful effects on the natural environment and protect the health of human beings.

        Eco & Partner offers services in various types of environmental and social monitoring, preparation and supervision of monitoring programs, reporting to authorities and investigations related to polluting operations and projects subject to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).

        We do work hand in hand with clients and regulators to determine exactly what needs to be monitored and the best means of doing so before commencing monitoring activities.

        Our experts have the know-how to design and perform complex sampling and measurement operations and install monitoring systems to meet national and international standards.

        We also do provide follow-up consultation on impacts after project implementation is concluded and various types of environmental investigations, measurements and research.

        We have the requisite tools, instruments and measuring equipment necessary to carry out various monitoring requirements and our team of professionals have a broad knowledge and experience in environmental monitoring, environmental investigations, research, analysis and interpretations of data.

         

        We offer the following technical services:

        • Noise and Vibrations Monitoring
        • Socio-economic surveys
        • Occupational Health and Safety gas/chemical Exposure
        • Ambient Air Quality Monitoring
        • Odour monitoring
        • Meteorological data collection
        • Leak detection
        • Point source pollution monitoring
        • Greenhouse Gas Assessment
        • Water quality monitoring
        • Ground water monitoring
        • Static Water Level monitoring
        • Effluent discharge quality monitoring
        • Ecological Monitoring.

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          Plot No.16A Ntinda II Road,
          P.O. Box 23989, Kampala, Uganda
          +256 319291830


            Impact Assessment (IA)

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            Impact Assessment

            At Eco & Partner Consult, we understand that an Impact Assessment is much more than just a technical document. It leads to the development of often legally binding commitments based on and enshrined in the management plan. These are living documents that develop over the life of the project and often independently monitored. In this way, it is a developer’s assessment of a project and key element of corporate social responsibility ultimately, of a company’s license to operate.

            Eco & Partner has extensive experience in the design and production of Impact Assessments and Management Plans for both international, local and international projects such as in the oil and gas sector, mining, hydroelectric, agriculture and tourism, manufacturing, transport, ICT, forestry, industrial development and urban planning, among others. 

            We offer an integrated approach that covers all aspects of the projects including biodiversity assessment and offsets, human rights and health issues, critical habitat and ecosystem assessments including stakeholder engagement, among others

            We offer the following technical services:

              • Project feasibility and option assessment, siting, routing and planning;
              • Impact Assessment
              • Design-phase impact and risk mitigation support;
              • Baseline data collection/ Resource-specific studies, field surveys and modelling;
              • Technical assistance on Regulatory permitting and approvals;
              • World Bank, Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards compliance Technical support;
              • Stakeholder / public engagement design and implementation;
              • GIS, imagery analysis, and digital data management; and
              • Financial option analysis/assessments.
              • Assistance on Expert witness during Public Hearing Development of Information, Education and Communication materials for Public Disclosure and Public-hearings for the Environmental & Social Impact Statements Environmental and Social Policy Development
              • Post Environment and Social monitoring and compliance technical support

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              COMPANY

              Plot No.16A Ntinda II Road,
              P.O. Box 23989, Kampala, Uganda
              +256 319291830