Social Impact Assessment & Social Audit
Social Impact Assessment & Social Audit
Social Impact Assessment Studies: Ensuring Healthy Land acquisition Process as per RFCTLAR&R Act, 2013
Keeping poor and marginalized specially the famers who have been kept marginal during the process of Land Acquisition by Government for development projects namely, Highways, Dams, Canals and building Infrastructures i.e. Police thana, Jail, water treatment and storage plants. We are working on issue of Land Acquisition as per Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation & Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLAR&R) and States Rules, 2015 of Jharkhand and Rules, 2016 of Rajasthan. The key purpose is to help the poor and marginalized and farmers in protecting their rights so that even if they have to lose their earning agriculture piece of land in part or full, they can be compensated in a way so that they should not have any problem in their socially and economically.
We have been involved in Social Impact Assessment processes and Rehabilitation & Resettlement process.
Social Impact Assessment (SIA) can be defined in terms of efforts to assess or estimate, in advance, the social consequences that are likely to follow specific policy actions (including programs/ projects and the adoption of new policies), and specific government actions. It is a process that provides a framework for prioritizing, gathering, analyzing, and incorporating social information and participation into the design and delivery of developmental interventions. The SIA ensures that the development interventions: (i) are informed and take into account the key relevant social issues; and (ii) incorporate a participation strategy for involving a wide range of stakeholders. Social Assessment (SA), on the other hand, is a process that provides framework for prioritizing, gathering, analyzing and incorporating social information and participation into the design and delivery of development operations.
SIA is a process of analyzing the impact of public/government intervention on the social aspects of the human environment. These aspects include:
- The ways people cope with life through their economy, social systems, and cultural values.
- The ways people use the natural environment, for subsistence, recreation, spiritual activities, cultural activities, and so forth.
- The ways people use environment for shelter, making livelihoods, industry, worship, recreation, gathering together, etc.
- Organization of the community, social and cultural institutions and beliefs
- Preservation of the community identity.
- Art, music, dance, language arts, crafts, and other expressive aspects of culture.
- A group’s values and beliefs about appropriate ways to live, family and extra-family relationships, status relationships, means of expression, and other expressions of community.
- The aesthetic and cultural character of a community or neighborhood-its ambience.
We have been empanelled with Government of Rajasthan for undertaking Social Impact Assessment
