Abstract
This Report responds to a felt need that, while ENTRO has consistently ensured environmental and social good practice and accumulated experience in employing and conducting a variety of environmental and social management instruments in its activities, and has built in capacity building as a cross cutting activity, and promoted climate change proof development, there is no one EM process at ENTRO to link and create synergies between project and program activitties (e.g., capacity building, climate change and long-term cumulative impacts assessment of projects) and to mediate the process of planning and IWRM. Also, the environment management process is not to be isolated from strategic planning to project planning to development. Structuring under one program ensures linkages between environment and various projects and activities and documents it and make it automated, ensures better use of financial resources and support the environment management (especially SEA) as a consensus building and planning tool. In this mainstream and very upstream context, and with this huge volume of environmental output, it was compelling and inevitable that ENTRO establish a robust environment management process that will fit within and link with the NBSF.