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The processThe process
QMM conducted a thorough project Social and Environmental Impact Assessment over a three-year period, beginning with wide-ranging consultations on the appropriate terms of reference, to ensure that all relevant issues would be addressed.
The resulting two volumes, 17 appendices and 25 supporting documents were then submitted to the Government of Madagascar in 2001, which then conducted a technical evaluation with the assistance of international experts, and a public consultation process.
This environmental permit requires QMM to comply with a series of social and environmental obligations during each phase of the project as it advances.
Sectoral Environmental Management Plans (SEMPs) have been prepared by QMM and signed off by the Ministry of the Environment for early construction infrastructure works, port construction, road construction and mine construction, with the monitoring of specific indices and preventive actions identified for each of these specific segments. These included:
- Extensive baseline research and data collection on the social environment and its interconnection with the natural environment;
- Extensive baseline research and monitoring on the biodiversity of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems;
- SEIA: Social and Environmental Impact Assessment;
- EMP: Environmental Management Plan;
- SEMP: Sectoral Environmental Management Plan (port, mine, quarry, roads etc);
- BAP: Biodiversity Action Plan;
- LUMP: Land Use Management Plan; and
- SAPM: Système des aires protégées de Madagascar.
