Social Impact Assessment Case Study

Question 1

1.1. Social Impact Assessment can be defined as the assessment of the impacts that humans have on the environment. The SIA is regulated by National Environmental Managements Act 107 of 1998 (NEMA), which ensures that all projects that companies or individual carry out on the environment comply with law. This ensuring that sustainable development is maintained throughout on a social, economic and environmental level. According to the US International Association for Impact Assessment, "Social impact assessment (SIA) includes the processes of analysing, monitoring and managing the intended and unintended social consequences, both positive and negative, of planned interventions (policies, programs, plans, projects) and any social change

Identification of Alternatives - Describe the proposed action or policy change and reasonable alternatives.

3. Baseline Conditions -Describe the relevant human environment of influence and baseline conditions. The baseline conditions are the existing conditions and past trends associated with the human environment in which the proposed activity is to take place.

4. Scoping-After obtaining a technical understanding of the proposal, identify the full range of probable social impacts that will be addressed based on discussion or interviews with numbers of all potentially affected.

5. Projection of Estimated Effects-Investigate the probable impacts. The probable social impacts will be formulated in terms of predicted conditions without the actions (baseline projection); predicted conditions with the actions; and predicted impacts which can be interpreted as the differences between the future with and without the proposed action.

6. Predicting Responses to Impacts-Determine the significance of the identified social impacts. After direct impacts have been estimated the assessor must next estimate how the affected people will respond in terms of attitude and

R. 385 under Chapter 5 of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998) as amended, of intent to carry out the following:

PROJECT:

Basic Assessment procedures for the proposed construction of a community centre (which will consist of a school with recreational facilities as well as a small community clinic). The construction of the clinic would involve the destruction of a Ramsar Wetland which is a breeding ground for an endangered bird species.

CONSULTANT:

ROMANO FROEHLICH (Pty) Ltd

PO Box 19855, Tecoma

Kimberley

8375

Public meeting will be held as follows:

Date: Friday, 29 April 2016

Venue: Kimberley Community Hall

Time: 18:00

For further details and in order to ensure that you are identified as an Interested & Affected Party (I&AP), please submit your details to the contact person within 10 days of the publication of the