Tool summary

Name of the tool
Social Impact Assessment

Description of the tool
Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is described by the Interorganisational Committee on Guidelines and Principles for SIA as “all social and cultural consequences to human populations of any public or private actions that alter the ways in which people live, work, play, related to one another, organize to meet their needs, and generally cope as members of society”.

The goal of SIA is to help individuals and communities, as well as government and private sector organisations, understand and better anticipate the possible social consequences for human populations and communities of planned and planned social change resulting from proposed policies, plans, programmes and projects.

Specific topic
The tool is a broad one in comparison to others, the Social Impact Assessment Community of practitioners consider that all issues that affect people, directly or indirectly, are pertinent to social impact assessment (Vanclay, 2003).

Sector/s of use

Waste	Energy	Water	Transport	Green/Blue	Building & Land use
1	1	1	1	1	1

M - main sector, 1 - sub sector and 0 - n/a

Scale of applications

Component	Building	Neighbourhood	City	Region
1	1	1	1	1