NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT:

FAO INVESTMENT CENTRE
Environmental Impact Assessment Report

KENYA: ABERDARES NATURAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS /AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK COOPERATIVE PROGRAMME

REPORT NO. 97/082 ADB-KEN

The Environmental Report Series is a new series of publications produced by the FAO Investment Centre. The primary objective of the Series is to provide illustrative examples of recent environmental “best practices” in support of the design of agricultural and related investment projects. The intended users of the Series are Centre staff, their national counterparts and other interested professionals involved in investment project design. In most cases, the material presented in the Series is based on recent work of Centre staff supported through co-operative agreements between FAO and its partner institutions. The primary criteria used for the selection of material published in the Series are quality, degree to which the underlying work represents accepted “good practices” in the field, relevance to meeting Centre needs, and originality.

The present report was prepared by an Investment Centre led team on behalf of the Government of Kenya with support provided through the FAO/ADB Co-operative Programme. The report, together with the associated investment project, are to be submitted for finance under the ADB’s soft-loan window. The FAO Investment Centre would like to express its appreciation to ADB for its permission to reprint the Environmental Impact Assessment Report in the present Series.





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Abstract

The present EIA Report was prepared by the Investment Centre Division of the FAO on behalf of the ADB and the GOK, in accordance with the ADB Environmental Assessment Guidelines, the GOK's Draft EIA Guidelines and Administrative Procedures (October 1996), and the Draft Kenya Wildlife Service Environmental Impact Assessment Procedures Manual (April 1995). The report is intended to provide the GOK and the ADB with concise information about existing environmental conditions and potential environmental impacts which would result from project-supported investments and make recommendations designed to mitigate any potential adverse impacts.