DPA- EI Social Environmental Impact DPA-EISEI continues to maintain good relationship with and engages closely with the MME and MoE, and facilitate and participate in public consultation on the draft laws/policies, sub-decree and guidelines. Engaging strongly with policy dialogues and national and sub-national multi-stakeholder dialogue platform contribute to increase the capacity DPA staff and EISEI network members and contribute to attain the outlined outcomes and outputs. Additionally, DPA-EISEI has been reviewing EIA reports and attending the inter-ministerial meetings to give comment and inputs on EIA reports as the part of NGOs participation for effective and better EIA as well asEnvironmental Management Plan (EMP).
DPA works closely with other NGOs, those two government’s ministryand private sector in ensuring the function of Extractive Industry Governance Forum (EIGF) and strengthening EISEI network at local and national level for influencing works to address emerging development issues related to gender and mining impact issues,and legal framework improvement. DPA-EISEI expands an engagement of the community representatives and community mining focal persons (CMFPs), so that they would be able to present their concerns and dialogue directly with the representatives of government’s Ministry and private sector, and asked for intervention and solution.  DPA-Extractive Industry Social and Environmental Impact (EISEI) is continuing to work with communities to improve their rights respected and received equitable benefits from extractive industry sector that enhance their livelihood conditions. The DPA-EISEI provides support services in terms of capacity building, facilitating building and strengthening network at local and national levels and facilitating multi-stakeholder dialoguesto address emerging development issues related to gender and mining impact issues.

Overall objective of this project is to mitigate the social and environmental impacts of mining on local people, include indigenous people communities, particular womeninthe DPA’s target areas.

The specific objective is to build and strengthen EISEI network and proactively collaborate with (EIGF) CSO alliance in supporting multi-stakeholder engagement and policy dialogues at national levels in order to enhance social and environmental performance and improve development and enforcement of legal framework in EI Sector.

DPA EISEI secretariat will work in Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri, Stung Treng, and Preah Vihea.

The expected outcomes andoutputs of the project are:
Outcome #1:  Resource dependent communities especially women and indigenous communities are empowered to claim their rights to access to natural resources and advocate to strengthen social and environmental accountability.
• Output 1.1: Improved knowledges,skills, capacity and networks of CSOs, IPs, Youths and Women Human Rights and Environmental Defenders for negotiations and advocacies for protection of natural resources.
• Output 1.2: Increased participation and voices CSOs, IPs, Youths and Women HumanRights and Environmental Defenders in dialogues and or platforms to strengthen social and environmental accountability.
•Output 1.3: Water resource dependent and mining affected communities are better organized to implement actions to protect and preserve their resources.
Outcome #2: Resource dependent communities especially women and indigenous community access to natural resourcemanagement justice, with national and international recourse and redress.
• Output 2.1: Oxfam and partners activelyengaged to influence gender sensitivity in drafting processes of Mediation Law
• Output 2.2: CSOs created and utilized platforms to support alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in NRM

Outcome #3: Cambodian government and private sectors improvedand enforced policies and regulations incorporating internationally recognized standards: CRS, Business and Human Rights Principles
• Output 3. 1:  Increased CSOs' participations in monitoring and reporting process of Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) and NRM related laws andpolicies.
• Output 3.2:  CSOs and affected communities are aware of negative impacts from existing NRM policies and legal frameworks and are able to engage and influence policy changes to protect natural resources.