This one-day course examines how labor rights and workforce influx issues should be addressed in environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs). Participants will learn how to incorporate labor rights and influx into baselines, impact evaluation, and significance assessment. The course will explore measures to prevent labor breaches, promote human rights and equal opportunity, and build productive worker–employer relationships, while also analyzing how project workforces contribute to in-migration and affect community support.
Typical challenges in infrastructure projects—such as working hours, sub-contracting, vulnerable workers, and workforce accommodations—will be discussed, along with strategies like labor commitments, worker codes of conduct, and skills development. Attention will also be given to gender-differentiated impacts on local communities and approaches to managing influx and strengthening resilience.
This training will include presentations, individual and group exercises, case studies, and plenary discussions.
Level: Foundation/Intermediate
Prerequisites: None
Language: English
Duration: 1 day (17 May)
Min/Max: 7-35
Price: $285
Instructor: Marielle Rowan, Technical Director-Social Performance, Mott MacDonald Group (Canada)
Marielle Rowan
Marielle Rowan has over 30 years of experience in social sustainability and community development and is currently Technical Director for Social Performance at Mott MacDonald. She has also worked with the UN Development Programme in Mozambique as a Programme Officer, with the International Development Research Centre in Mozambique as a Liaison Officer, and with the International Development Research Centre in Canada as an Evaluation Intern.
Her key skills include social impact assessment, labor monitoring, resettlement planning, public consultation planning and implementation, community development, and facilitation of training workshops. She has extensive experience training on IFC Performance Standards, social safeguards, and impact assessment, delivering workshops and courses across Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Rowan holds an MSc in Rural Extension Studies and an HBA in Applied Studies: English, Rhetoric and Professional Writing. She is a member of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) and the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, and she speaks English (native), Portuguese (fluent), Spanish (basic), and French (basic).