1 | Actions must be defined to minimize adverse impacts and maximize positive impacts |
2 | Stakeholders must be informed and involved in the follow-up process |
3 | Follow-up programs must be designed in the pre-decision phase and conducted in the post-decision phase |
4 | The project proponent must be responsible for mitigating adverse impacts and communicating follow-up results to other stakeholders |
5 | It is up to the environmental agency to determine monitoring tasks and verify their implementation |
6 | The community should be informed of the results of the follow-up and, ideally, should participate in the formulation and implementation of the programs |
7 | There must be agreement between the parties on methodological and procedural approaches |
8 | Procedures must be adapted to the legal and administrative, socioeconomic and cultural context |
9 | Follow-up measures must be applied beyond the individual project level |
10 | Monitoring and evaluation actions must be frequent and generate useful information for stakeholders, seeking to achieve the objectives of the follow-up programs |
11 | There must be good communication mechanisms between different stakeholders to maximize learning through experience |
12 | Stakeholder roles and responsibilities should be defined in pre-decision documentation |
13 | Follow-up objectives must be clearly defined and established |
14 | Actions must be proportional to the expected environmental impacts and adaptable to changes in the environment |
15 | Follow-up activities must generate information and results that can be measured and evaluated in relation to well-defined criteria |
16 | Follow-up must respond to short- and long-term environmental changes, covering all phases of the project |
17 | Time, financial, human and capacity resources must be considered in advance, that is, in the design phase of follow-up programs |