The Table of Contents is as follows:

1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Purpose and Scope
1.2 Guideline Development Process

2 BACKGROUND
2.1 Southern African Context
2.2 Provisions for Socio-economic Impact Assessment in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
2.3 Provisions for SEC in National Biosafety Frame works in Southern Africa

3 Review of other initiatives on Socio-economic considerations related to GMOs
3.1 Initiatives in the EU and in EU Member countries
3.1.1 Government of the Netherlands
3.1.2 JRC-FAO Workshop on SECs

4 Options for Inclusion of SEIA in Biosafety Decision Making
4.1 Which applications should require a SEIA?
4.2 Who should conduct the SEIA?

5 SEIA PROCESS
5.1 Principles of Socio-economic Impact Assessment
5.2 Phases of the Assessment
5.2.1 Profiling of Baseline Conditions
5.2.2 In-depth household surveys
5.2.3 Impact Assessment

6 APPLYING THE SEIA IN DECISION-MAKING

7 MONITORING AND EVALUATION (M&E) FOR QUALITY MANAGEMENT
7.1 Defining SEIA quality
7.2 M&E and quality management framework
7.3 Implementing an inventory quality management system
7.3.1 Establish a SEIA quality assurance team
7.3.2 Develop a quality management plan
7.3.3 Perform generic quality checks
7.3.4 Perform targeted area quality checks
7.3.5 Review final SEIA issues and reports
7.3.6 Institutionalise formal feedback loops
7.3.7 Establish reporting, documentation, and archiving procedures

8 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

9 REFERENCE