BASIC INTRODUCTION OF SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

1. SOCIAL IMPACT
ASSESSMENT
BY
NISHA.R

2. SIA?
AIM AND
OBJECTIVE OF SIA
Social Impact Assessment 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 processes invoked by those interventions.
 Analyze how proposals affect the people.
 Identify and mitigation adverse impacts.
 Enhance benefits of the developmental proposals.
 Help manage social change.

3. HISTORY OF SIA
1969
The concept of SIA was introduced in 1969,
under u.s. national environmental policy act
and is required to analyze the effect the
legislation on the human environment.
1970
The field of SIA emerged during the 1970
primarily as a response to new
environmental legislation.

4. SIA PARTICIPANTS
STAGES IN
PROJECT/POLICY
DEVELOPMENT
 Project proponent
 Community
 Government agencies
 Consultants
 The public
 Planning and development
 Construction /implement
 Operation/maintenance
 Decommissioning / abandonment

5. CAUSE OF
SOCIAL
IMPACTS
TYPES OF
SOCIAL
IMPACTS
 Demographic change , e.g.: population
size,composition
 Economic change , e.g.: employment and income
 Environmental change , e.g.: air, water quality
 Institutional change , e.g.: law and administration
 Lifestyle- behaviour and relationship
 Cultural- customs,values and religious belief.
 Community- infrastructure, service and networks.
 Amenity/quality of life- sense of security and futurity.
 Health- mental and physical well being.

6. METHODS
COMMONLY
USED TO PREDICT
SOCIAL IMPACT
TREND
EXTRAPOLATIONS
POPULATION
MULTIPLIERS
USED OF EXPERT
KNOWLEDGE
SCENARIO
BUILDING
COMPARATIVE
STUDIES

7. PRINCIPLES
UNDERLYING IN
THE SIA
PROCESS
 Public involvement plan
 Data collection
 Consider use of an adaptive management process
 Objective analysis of impacts
 Focusing on significant impacts
 Identifying methods, assumptions and defining
significants
 Identifying key planning issues
 Employing of SIA practitioners
 Estabilishing monitoring program
 Develop and implement a mitigation plan

8. SOURCES OF SIA INFO
DATA ON THE
PROPOSAL
EXPERIENCE WITH
SIMILAR ACTIONS
CENSUS AND VITAL
STATISTICS
SECONDARY
DOCUMENTS
SURVEY AND FIELD
RESEARCH

9. SIA BENEFITS
CAN INCLUDE
Reduced impact on people
Enhanced benefits for those affected
Avoiding delays and obstruction
Lowering costs by timely actions
Better community and stakeholders relationship
Improved future proposals

10. SOCIOECONOMIC
IMPACT
ASSESSMENT
PROCESS
 Step1: public involvement
-identify all potentially affected groups , at the early stage in the
planning process.
 Step2: establishing the baseline of human environment and
condition
- baseline condition are the existing and past trends associated
with the potentially affected human environment
- a geographical area is identified along with the distribution of
special populations at risk.
 Step3: scoping
-the scoping process is used to sharply focuse the analysis on key
impact, actions, alternatives and mitigation that will be evaluated in
the SIA statement.
 Step 4: impact investigation
- in general, there is consensus on the types of impact that
needed to be considered (social, cultural, demographic, economic,
political impacts)

11.  Step5: forecasting impacts
-indirect impacts occur either later than the direct impact or farther
away
 step6: assessing alternatives and mitigation
-alternatives may be reshaped, new alternatives are developed band
in particular , mitigation measures are developed to address
socioeconomic impacts.
 Step7: monitoring
-monitoring plan should track the project development and compare
real impacts with projected area.
-monitoring program are particularly valuable for proposal that lack
details information or involve a degree of variability or uncertainty.

12. SIA VARIABLES
 Cultural norms and values
 Political and socia resources
 Community and institutional structures
 Individuval and family changes
 Community resources
 Population characteristics

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