Environmental Management, Social Performance & Sustainable Development

• Environmental Impact Assessment, Risks Management & Audit – We assist our clients’ businesses through specific or periodic audits aimed at proactively managing their environmental risks, improving environmental performance and guiding them towards sustainable business operations. An objective of the audit is also to ensure compliance with existing regulations, policies (internal & external), international best practices and maintaining or obtaining relevant certification, e.g. ISO 14001/EMAS. We also support clients to develop robust Environmental Policies and comprehensive Environmental Management Systems through which they can independently implement practical cost-saving measures towards reducing their carbon footprints and resulting in lower operating costs, proactive management of business risks, and enhanced corporate reputation in the long-term.

• Social & Health Impact Assessments – Rosebank Consulting reviews clients’ activities or operations as they may negatively impact on the social wellbeing and health of persons that are directly or remotely connected to such businesses or projects, and propose remedial mitigation measures to address identifiable risks.

• Social & Environmental Reporting – We have a team of in-house experienced resource persons that can assist clients with strategic advice on how to identify, assess and manage their social, environmental and ethical responsibilities with the findings published in a comprehensive report to stakeholders after verification of stated claims by an independent auditor.

• Due Diligence & Compliance – Our clients, particularly financial institutions can commission our team of experts to conduct due diligence, screening and categorization of projects with a view to ensuring compliance with local regulations, environmental and social performance standards and international best practices. We also undertake auditing and monitoring of environmental policies, environmental management systems, programmes, processes, including pre-acquisition audits on behalf of clients in order to review likely environmental aspects and social issues that could affect chances of recovery of loans advanced to customers.

• Resettlement Action Planning (RAP) Process Including Livelihood Restoration – We collaborate with governments and project proponents to ensure the development of a comprehensive RAP framework based on principles of sustainable development in accordance with IFC and World Bank Standards after an extensive participatory consultation process with relevant key project stakeholders.

• Sustainable Development Strategy & Policy – The successful design, development and implementation of programmes, projects, policies and regulations by private or public sector institutions depend on whether they satisfy the requirements of social and environmental sustainability. Rosebank Consulting’s approach builds measurable sustainability indices into any solution or recommendation made to our esteemed clients.

• Stakeholder Planning & Engagement Strategy – Stakeholder engagement and dialogue is critical towards gaining useful insights into how governments and corporations are perceived by civil society and the larger environment where they operate. We are well positioned to undertake stakeholder mapping and classification for our clients including managing EIA screening and consultation process, developing strategies on how they can meaningfully engage and build relationships with major influencers or decision makers whose positions on certain issues, may negatively impact on their long term business sustainability.

• Strategic Partnership & Alliances Brokering for Attainment of the United Nations Millenium Development Goals - Our extensive alliance with major environmental and social development based groups makes it possible for us to broker mutually beneficial partnership between our clients and credible organizations for the realization of the following specific Millennium Development Goals: www.un.org/millenniumgoals

                  a) Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
                  b) Ensuring environmental sustainability
                  c) Developing a global partnership for development

• Corporate Social Responsibility – The world we live in today has become a global village. Stakeholders’ expectations and demands on corporate bodies continue to rise, and CSR is now linked with the “social license” of corporations to operate successfully, and to conduct sustainable business in the long-term. In-house skills and experience abound at Rosebank Consulting to assist clients design and implement robust corporate social responsibility programmes followed by post-implementation impact monitoring. We have ensured positive reputation gain for some of our clients who are now widely acknowledged to demonstrate good corporate citizenship through their support of worthy environmental and social causes.

• Fundamental Human Rights Compliance – Africa is gradually experiencing democratic and social reforms after decades of dictatorships and human right violations by governments, while some big corporations continue to engage in unethical labour practices.

Our team of regulatory and social experts counsels clients to develop and monitor compliance with effective in-house policies on fundamental human rights observance in the work place particularly in the areas of protecting rights of children against forced labour, elimination of all forms of discrimination and harassment.. We also assist private sector clients to develop strategies and policies on implementing the 10 principles of the United Nations Global Compact. www.unglobalcontact.org