Land Use and Environmental Management

Environmental Impact and Social Assessment (ESIA)

Basket One Consulting and Advisory Limited  conducts assessment of potential Environmental and Social impacts for various development projects in various sectors such as; Roads, Railways, Airports, Ports and Harbors, Water Supply, Sewerage, Thermal Power, Electrical Transmission Lines, Industries in General, Mining and Quarrying, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Cement and Fertilizer Plants, Diversion Channels, Forestry, Irrigation and Waste Disposal Facilities; and develops appropriate mitigation measures.

Environmental Auditing (EA)

Basket One Consulting and Advisory Limited   conducts Environmental Audits on existing projects on an annual basis as required by law to determine the compliance of these projects towards the laid Environmental laws and standards. BASKET ONE CONSULTING AND ADVISORY LIMITED does audits on the following sectors: Roads and Railways, Airports, Ports and Harbors, Shopping Complexes, Supermarkets, Water Supply Systems, Sewerage Infrastructure, Thermal Power Plants and Associated Facilities, Electrical Transmission Lines, Industries in General, Mining Developments, Oil and Gas Pipelines, Cement Plants, Fertilizer Plants, Diversion Channels, Irrigation and Waste Disposal Facilities, Parks, Hotels etc.

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Auditing/ Advisory Services

Basket One Consulting and Advisory Limited   provides expertise in Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) advisory services to clients to ensure the safety of a workplace as well as that of the surrounding community. The firm utilizes guidelines set out in the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2007 as well as those provided by the World Bank International Finance Cooperation (IFC), African Development Bank (AfDB), World Health Organization (WHO) and other relevant agencies to ensure EHS compliance. Proposed and on-going projects should be subjected to the relevant regulatory frameworks as per the Kenyan laws. The laws are overseen, coordinated and enforced by the relevant government institutions/lead agencies. The agencies include Kenya Forest Service (KFS) – for forest related projects, Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) – for wildlife related projects, National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) – for all projects listed in Schedule II of EMCA CAP 387, Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health Services (DOSHS) – for all labour laws implementation, Water Resources Authority (WRA) – for all water abstraction and use projects, among others.

Strategic Planning

Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment is carried out to Policies, Plans and Programs unlike ESIAs that are carried out for proposed projects. The main guiding tool for carrying out SESA in the country is the NEMA Strategic Environmental Assessment Guidelines (2012). Basket One Consulting and Advisory Limited has vast experience in carrying out SESA for various sectors at either policy, plan, or program levels

Value Chain Analysis (VCA) for Natural Resource Products

Basket One Consulting and Advisory conducts VCA for natural resource products by assessing the resource and linking upstream agents in production and distribution processes to downstream partners by technical, economic, territorial, institutional and social relationships. This helps create awareness of available supply and demand of the Natural resource product and by so doing fosters an environment where resource exploitation is successful.