Sector

Environmental Management

Chemonics delivers integrated, cost-effective environmental management solutions that help clients and partners reduce risk, improve productivity, and meet regulatory requirements and market expectations. We embed impact assessments and mitigation strategies from project design through execution, strengthen policy and governance frameworks for environmental stewardship, and promote responsible sourcing through traceability, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) alignment, and compliance support. Our approach enables businesses to future-proof operations, enhance brand reputation, and unlock sustainable growth.

Impact Assessments and Mitigation

Impact Assessments and Mitigation

We help partners track environmental outcomes, ensure compliance, and build resilience across operations and projects.

Chemonics applies a collaborative, evidence-based approach to help clients assess environmental risks and develop adaptable mitigation strategies. We provide a full range of services – including initial scoping, options analysis and weighting, mitigation and monitoring plan development, and social impact assessments – to identify and address risks early and comprehensively. We tailor our diagnostics to client needs and sector-specific contexts—whether in agri-food systems, small and artisanal mining, or health. We co-develop mitigation strategies with businesses, local governments, communities, and other diverse clients and partners to ensure alignment with their operational and strategic goals.

Supply Chains, Responsible Sourcing, and Compliance

Supply Chains, Responsible Sourcing, and Compliance

We work across supply chains to implement traceability and due diligence systems, deploy nature-based solutions, and promote ethical sourcing and market access.

Chemonics helps companies and development partners de-risk agri-food, forest product, and mining supply chains by delivering tailored solutions that meet rising ESG expectations and evolving market regulations. We support our clients and partners to implement credible, scalable, and future-proof sourcing strategies across high-risk geographies. Our services include project pipeline development, blended finance structuring, technology scouting for improved traceability, community education and livelihood transitions, introduction of low impact practices, land rehabilitation planning, and impact monitoring and reporting.

Policy and Governance

Policy and Governance

We deliver transformative environmental management solutions and support policies that are inclusive, transparent, evidence-based, and balanced.

Chemonics co-creates and delivers regionally grounded governance strategies that safeguard and enable effective stewardship of environmental resources. We bring experience in transboundary watershed governance, working with public sector and multilateral clients to improve water security through stronger multi-country cooperation and monitoring. We work with city- and regional-level authorities to enhance low emissions development through diverse management strategies, such as integrating air quality monitoring into urban planning. We also work in diverse contexts to improve forestry and wildlife management policy – from structuring dialogue processes that integrate indigenous community priorities into forestry governance to delivering evidence-based and tech-enabled forest monitoring solutions that facilitate ecosystem restoration at scale. We deliver culturally authentic, community-owned solutions that embed resilience and accountability into environmental governance.

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Mercury eliminated in artisanal gold mining supply chains

Colombia

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Farmers engaged in accelerating deforestation-free soy production across 10 million hectares

Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay

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Hectares of forest under improved management by establishing and supporting the National Forest and Wildlife Service and Regional Environmental Authorities

Peru

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Despite advances in rebuilding Lebanon’s physical, social, and economic infrastructure, many citizens experience inadequate access to public services and limited economic opportunities. By introducing a number of tech-enabled tools, Chemonics was able to successfully improve the country's water resource management, waste management, infrastructure planning, and disaster preparedness. By supporting municipalities to provide better services and enhanced economic opportunities, it decreased the drivers of tension that may otherwise have contributed to conflict and violence.

The rapid scale-up of life-saving health commodities and large-scale procurement, storage, delivery, and disposal of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies worldwide brings immense public health benefits. Yet, it also generates complex environmental risks: hazardous healthcare waste, expired pharmaceuticals, inappropriate disposal practices, and the need for environmentally sustainable warehousing, distribution, and small-scale construction. By adopting a multifaceted approach, Chemonics ensured that we maintained environmental compliance with international best practices and local regulations, all while ensuring the continuity of health services.

Despite being a vital source of income for over 300,000 Colombian families, over 60% of artisanal and small-scale gold mining operations are informal or illegal. By adopting a multi-pronged approach to strengthening governance, mitigating environmental harm, and unlocking market-based incentives for responsible mining, Chemonics enabled the sale of nearly 4 tons of legal gold while also strengthening gender equity and household resilience.