Environmental Management Consultants

Infrastructure

At ESF We provide environmental, social, health and safety services to the infrastructure sector that includes dams, agriculture and irrigation infrastructure, transport and communication infrastructure including roads, ports, railway; urban development and waste management facilities among others. We ensure that infrastructure development doesn’t compromise our environment. ESF deals in environment, social, health and safety studies and does not involve itself with the engineering aspects of the infrastructure.At ESF We provide environmental, social, health and safety services to the infrastructure sector that includes dams, agriculture and irrigation infrastructure, transport and communication infrastructure including roads, ports, railway; urban development and waste management facilities among others. We ensure that infrastructure development doesn’t compromise our environment.
ESF deals in environment, social, health and safety studies and does not involve itself with the engineering aspects of the infrastructure.

Being an African based institution, we add value to our clients by providing local content that otherwise international investor’s lack. Thus we not only help our clients in environmental permitting but also help them understand the local operating environment.

Our ESIA goes further than just permitting to ensuring that the management plans developed are implemented and monitored. This we do by developing Environmental and Social Management Systems that can be seen to be similar to accepted international frameworks for quality and environmental management systems, such as ISO 9001 and 14001.

Permitting Register

We also develop legal register on behalf of our clients to monitor compliance to Country’s permitting framework and update our clients on changes in legal framework as they arise.

Under this we have the following services:

• Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Permitting
• Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Environmental and Social Management Systems
• Resettlement Planning
• ESM Implementation Monitoring

Case Studies

Case Study for Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Permitting

Kesses Photovoltaic Solar Power Project Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Study

ESF Consultants completes ESIA study for the proposed 40 MW grid connected Solar Photovoltaic plant in Kesses Division of Uasin Gishu County Republic of Kenya by Kenya Solarfarms B.V. The study was undertaken to satisfy both the requirements of International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Kenya Environmental Management and Coordination Act (EMCA). This was the second assignment ESF was completing for the same client after successfully implementation of the first phase of 40MW solar photovoltaic project in the same region

At ESF We provide environmental, social, health and safety services to infrastructure sector that includes dams, agriculture and irrigation infrastructure, transport and communication infrastructure including roads, ports, railway; urban development and waste management facilities among others. We ensure that infrastructure development doesn’t compromise our environment. ESF deals in environment, social, health and safety studies and does not involve itself with the engineering aspects of the infrastructure.

Services provided in infrastructure development include:

• EHS Compliance monitoring
• Development of Environmental and Social Management Systems
• Environment, Health and Safety Plans

With over a decade’s worth of experience in advancing best construction practices in the modern infrastructure development, ESF Consultants has continued to diversify its portfolio in handling the sectors projects. ESF provides a full range of services to the sector in administering and implementing sustainable solutions for commercial clients on both the regional and international scale.

Our project development expertise incorporates solutions for of managing challenges and liabilities involved with new developments and procurement activities. The firm applies some of the industry’s best practices including the Equator Principles, International Finance Corporation (IFC) standards, World Bank EHS Guidelines, and other similar requirements thus assisting clients with obtaining environmental permits for new projects.

Our clients in the infrastructure sector include:

Case Study for Infrastructure Sector

Sudan Peace Project:

ESF Consultants was contracted by Sudan Peace Fund (SPF) Project through funding by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to undertake environmental Assessment for Road construction in Southern Sudan.

Pre-feasibility Environmental Assessment Study for the proposed 2000-km railway line construction for South Sudan-Uganda-Kenya by Ingeno Group of Companies, Germany in collaboration with the Government of South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda.

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ESF has been helping our clients to get into new markets through community engagement and consultation. ESF strategy is to engage host communities, governments and nongovernmental organizations as stakeholders by empowering these communities through our study process. By empowering communities to understand the process of work we build their capacity to understand and appreciate the investments our clients bring to the community and best ways to scale it up without compromising the integrity of the community resources and wellbeing.

We achieve these through:

1. Baseline surveys to understand the communities structures, issues, among others
2. Risk Assessments
3. Identifying CSR programs
4. Community Needs Assessments
5. Stakeholder Engagement and Management
6. Corporate Social Responsibility
7. Local Content

We help our clients build strong, constructive, and responsive relationships with local communities that are essential for the successful management of a project's.

By engaging with stakeholders we mitigate the risks associated with poor stakeholder relations and the improve the opportunities provided by constructive ones.

Case Study

Case Study for Corporate Social Responsibility

ENI sustainability advisors in Kenya

ESF Consultants is supporting ENI work in Kenya by updating their legal register, and developing Corporate Social Responsibility investment program.

ESF understands there are cross cutting issues that comes into play when implementing projects. Some of these cross cutting issues are gender, climate change and human rights. Due to the complexity of these cross cutting issues, we support clients in identifying and managing them.

In climate change scenario, we help clients in developing adaptation measure to project’s vulnerability to climate change and its potential to increase the vulnerability of ecosystems and communities to climate change

Our services include:

• Climate Change and mitigation
• Gender Mainstreaming

Gender:

We understand that projects may have different impacts on women and men, due to their differentiated socioeconomic roles and their varying degrees of control over and access to assets, productive resources, and employment opportunities.

We help our clients assessing risks and impacts associated with gender and propose measures designed to ensure that one gender is not disadvantaged relative to the other in the context of the project.