EnvisionV3-LOA-table-option

EVALUATION CRITERIA AND DOCUMENTATION GUIDANCE
A. Has the project team conducted a social risk and impact assessment?
1. Documentation of a social risk and impact assessment that specifically includes equity and social justice. The assessment may be part of a larger
environmental and social risk and impact assessment. The scope and level of effort of the process is relative to the type, scale, and location of
the project (e.g. proximity to population centers).
2. The assessment should include:
a. Direct Direct impacts of of the the project and and associated activities.
b. b. Impacts Impacts from from independent independent secondary secondary development development or or actions actions that that may may occur occur as as a a result result of of the the project. project.
c. Indirect impacts on resources or services important to the local community.
c. Indirect impacts on resources or services important to the local community.
3. The social context of the project regarding affected communities should consider, but may expand upon: demographic data, gender equality,
3. The social context of the project regarding affected communities should consider, but may expand upon: demographic data, gender equality,
health data, income rate, education, and level of historic infrastructure investment.
health data, income rate, education, and level of historic infrastructure investment.
B. Does the stakeholder engagement process take into account the historic context of equity and social justice within affected
B. Does the stakeholder engagement process take into account the historic context of equity and social justice within affected
communities?
communities?
1. Documentation demonstrating an understanding of the historic context of equity and social justice within the affected communities.
1. Documentation demonstrating an understanding of the historic context of equity and social justice within the affected communities.
2. Documentation of how the equity and social justice context informed the stakeholder engagement process.
2. Documentation of how the equity and social justice context informed the stakeholder engagement process.
3. In cases where the project impacts sovereign peoples, especially indigenous peoples, documentation of how the process specifically addressed
3. In cases where the project impacts sovereign peoples, especially indigenous peoples, documentation of how the process specifically addressed
and prioritized engagement of these stakeholders.
and prioritized engagement of these stakeholders.
C. Have key members of the project team made commitments to equity and social justice within their organizations?
C. Have key members of the project team made commitments to equity and social justice within their organizations?
1. Documentation of corporate/ organizational policies and commitments concerning equity and social justice. This should include but is not limited to:
1. Documentation of corporate/ organizational policies and commitments concerning equity and social justice. This should include but is not limited
to: a. Pay equity b. Gender equality c. Non-discrimination
2. a.
In Pay
cases equity
where the project may have notable social impacts (e.g. a new road going through a community) documentation of project-specific
commitments to addressing equity and social justice.
b. Gender equality
D. Has c. Non-discrimination
the project addressed social impacts following a mitigation hierarchy?
2. In cases where the project may have notable social impacts (e.g. a new road going through a community) documentation of project-specific
1. Documentation of a management program(s) to address equity and social justice impacts identified in the social impact assessment.
commitments to addressing equity and social justice.
2. Documentation of specific decisions, programs, strategies, etc. that were implemented to address social impacts.
D. 3. Has Documentation the project of addressed how impacts social and mitigation impacts following strategies a were mitigation prioritized: hierarchy? avoidance, minimization, restoration, and compensation.
1. Documentation of a management program(s) to address equity and social justice impacts identified in the social impact assessment.
E. Has the project team empowered communities to engage in the development process?
2. Documentation of specific decisions, programs, strategies, etc. that were implemented to address social impacts.
1. Documentation that qualified professionals were used to identify, analyze, and address barriers to inclusion in the stakeholder engagement process.
3. Documentation of how impacts and mitigation strategies were prioritized: avoidance, minimization, restoration, and compensation.
2. Documentation of how the project specifically targeted underrepresented communities and targeted higher rates of participation and/ or inclusion.
E. Has the project team empowered communities to engage in the development process?
F. Will the impacts and benefits of the project be distributed equitably throughout affected communities?
1. Documentation that qualified professionals were used to identify, analyze, and address barriers to inclusion in the stakeholder engagement
1. process. Documentation of how the project does not overly burden one or more communities with risk or negative impacts while other communities receive
the majority of project benefits.
2. Documentation of how the project specifically targeted underrepresented communities and targeted higher rates of participation and/ or inclusion.
2. Maps showing the key demographic data identified in the social impact assessment overlaid with areas likely to receive benefits or impacts of the project.
F. Will the impacts and benefits of the project be distributed equitably throughout affected communities?
G. Does the project positively address or correct an existing or historic injustice or imbalance?
1. Documentation of how the project does not overly burden one or more communities with risk or negative impacts while other communities receive
1. the Documentation majority of project that the benefits. project positively addressed or corrected an existing or historic injustice or imbalance. This may include, but is not limited, to:
2. Maps a. The showing provision the or key improvement demographic of data infrastructure identified services in the social to historically impact assessment underserved overlaid communities.
with areas likely to receive benefits or impacts of the
project. b. The removal of existing infrastructure that historically divided or created barriers within a community.
c. Addressing historic inequality where one community was disproportionately burdened with negative infrastructure impacts while not receiving
the benefits.
d. Addressing historic socioeconomic trends in infrastructure design, development, and operation related to inclusion.
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