Session 10: Environmental Compliance: Roles, Responsibilities & Resources

Session Objectives

• Explain that environmental compliance is mainstreamed throughout the Automated Directives System (ADS); 
• State the main environmental compliance record-keeping requirements established by the ADS; 
• State the roles and responsibilities of USAID staff in respect to compliance; 
• Explain the importance of incorporating best-practice Environmental Compliance Language (ECL); 
• Explain the basic elements of of implementing partners’ environmental compliance reporting.