The paradigm on appreciating environmental and social risks and understanding the need for integrating required actions in the decision-making cycle has started shifting world-wide, moving beyond measuring only physical and financial achievements of a project/program. Understanding risks allows for more accurate planning and better allocation of time, finances, and human resources in any project or program. However, the importance of environmental and social risk management is often downplayed. An effective and robust management of such risks, on the other hand, helps in attaining the intended results and leads to more sustainable outcomes. Mistakes committed in inadequately identifying social and environmental risks as well as gaps in the implementation and monitoring of mitigation plans often result in delays, conflicts, grievances, and judicial interventions eventually resulting in enormous time and cost overruns. The Course will help the participants in perceiving both upside opportunities and downside threats/risks, including anticipating ‘what might not go as per plan’ and putting in place actions to reduce ‘uncertainties’.