Abstract

Environmental Assessment projects range from very simple local projects involving the investigation of a single site to large and more complex international projects involving multiple locations; investigating multiple environmental media; and executed by a multi-cultural project management team. In the case of a post impact assessment survey, the goal is to gain access to impacted sites; collect relevant data; analyse the data and produce a report. In real life situations however, such a simple description does not match the complexity of the process as observed in actual field operations. The socioeconomic and socio-cultural environment in which a project takes place presents its own challenges to a project management team and an understanding of the expectations of local community which is a key success indicator. In the absence of working knowledge and understanding of local expectations, complex international projects may depend on joint working relationships between independent bodies in the form of collaborative partnerships to achieve their set goals. Using this approach, the planning and implementation of the project’s activities becomes joint responsibility of the partners and which may lead to the creation of new organizational structures and new implementation processes. This paper reviews the Technical Collaboration Partnership between the Post Conflict and Disaster Management (PCDMB) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Nigeria in the Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland Project, in Nigeria (2009 to 2011). The review adopts a philosophical framework

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