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INTRODUCTION
Humanitarian projects, although addressing protection needs and aiming for durable solutions for the crisis and conflict-affected communities, can result in adverse environmental externalities. These environmental externalities must be identified and addressed in the earliest stages of humanitarian response, which helps protect the environment and communities from any project-associated potential adverse impacts. Humanitarian organizations are increasingly working towards addressing environmental considerations in the program cycle; however, this practice is yet to be mainstreamed into project designs and implementations. The most practised exercise for mainstreaming environmental concerns into projects begins with an environmental screening. It evaluates projects’ interventions against the sensitivities of the receiving environment to determine positive and negative environmental impacts. Several environmental screening tools can be selected depending on the project’s nature, scale, location, and organization’s implementation capacity. Environmental screening is usually a requirement by local environmental authorities and donors but can also be an internal organizational compliance requirement. This environmental screening has been conducted for Shelter and WASH projects Implemented by the Norwegian Refugee Council in Malkohi Community and IDP camp, located in the south of Yola in Adamawa State, Nigeria. This report is part of the Error! Reference source not found.ECHO-funded project on “Strengthening the capacity of humanitarian actors to do environmental screenings”.
NEAT+
The NEAT+ is an open-source, rapid, easy-to-use environmental screening tool1 mainly designed for humanitarian contexts. A consortium of humanitarian organizations developed and officially launched this tool in 2019. The tool assesses vulnerabilities and impacts of humanitarian response activities and generates summary reports providing a snapshot of baseline environmental conditions, potential environmental impacts, mitigation measures, and development opportunities. There are currently two versions of the NEAT+ available, the Excelbased Rural-NEAT+ and the web-based Urban-NEAT+. As shown in the figure Error! Reference source not found., the NEAT+ consists of an Environment Sensitivity module and Activity Modules covering core humanitarian activities: Shelter and Settlement, WASH, Food Security, Livelihood, and Health.
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