As a result of the Strategic Environment and Socio-Economic Assessment of the Uranium industry-rush-in 2009, the Strategic Environmental Management Plan (SEMP) was developed. The world-wide first Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the uranium province was an initiative that provided vision and generated a culture of collaboration within the uranium mining industry, government, and the public. The SEMP is a public-private collaborative initiative housed within the Geological Survey of Namibia, Ministry of Mines and Energy and it is supported by the Namib Ecological Restoration and Monitoring Unit (NERMU) at the Gobabeb Research and Training Centre. SEMP is an over-arching framework and roadmap addressing the cumulative impacts of existing and potential developments, within which individual projects have to be planned and implemented; measured around twelve Environmental Quality Objectives (EQOs) and the extent to which uranium mining is impacting the central Namib. Each EQO articulates a specific goal, provides a context, sets standards and elaborates on a number of key indicators that are monitored.