Benfield Hazard Research Centre,
CARE International
2005

Guidelines for Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment in Disasters 

Prepared by Kelly C.

• How to define and prioritize potential environmental impacts in disaster situations.

A Quick Guide to REAs in a disasters (based on the Guidelines)

Prepared by Kelly C.

• A self-learn module introducing the basics of REAs
• Programme size 178 MB

• How to address environmental aspects in planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of projects
• Tools for environmental management and environmental assessment

• FRAME Toolkit: Module I – Introduction
FRAME Toolkit: Module II – Environmental Assessment
• FRAME Toolkit: Module III – Rapid Environmental Assessment
• FRAME Toolkit: Module IV – Community Environmental Action Planning
• FRAME Toolkit: Module V – Environmental Indicator Framework
• FRAME Toolkit: Module VII – Evaluation

• tools and guidelines on environmental assessments, rapid environmental assessments, community environmental action planning (CEAPs), environmental indicators, geographic information systems (GIS), and evaluations

• Intended as a first step towards elaborating a systematic approach to addressing and assessing environmental impacts and concerns following natural disasters -especially those issues which might have a negative impact on the safety and welfare of people
• Primarily designed to inform and influence the early recovery process

• an overview of the environment of Sudan and the assessment process
• analysis and recommendations for the major cross-cutting issues: climate change, desertification, conflict, and population displacement
• analysis and recommendations for key environmental issues in nine different sectors (urban/health, industry, agriculture, forestry, water, wildlife, marine environment, law and foreign aid)

• Intended as a first step towards elaborating a systematic approach to addressing environmental issues in and around settlements for internally displaced people, especially those issues which might have an urgent negative impact on the health and welfare of these people
• Intended as a pilot tool and will be revised further as field tests are carried out

• Available on OCHA website: Hazard Identification Tool
• Based on the Flash Environmental Assessment Tool (FEAT). The HIT can be seen as a simplified country-application of the FEAT
• The objective of the HIT is to alert the UN Country Team after the natural disaster to potential secondary risks posed by large infrastructure and industrial facilities containing hazardous materials located in the affected area. This information can be shared with local and national authorities
• Can be used at different levels in the disaster management cycle: from response to response preparedness and disaster risk reduction activities

• A “first aid” tool to identify environmental impacts, and support initial response actions in disaster contexts
• Focuses primarily on immediate and acute impacts arising from released hazardous chemicals. Provides also information on physical impacts to the natural environment, such as soil erosion and salt water intrusion