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In strategic environmental assessment (SEA) for plans and programs, alternatives are compared on their environmental and other impacts. The city of Amsterdam prepared a spatial structure vision, and applied SEA to develop alternative planning options using a set of pre-defined policy objectives. This 4 page Views and Experiences provides interesting information on this process.
published: 20-8-2010 last edited: 20-8-2010 17:00:03
Yaoundé, Cameroon, 10 August 2010 – On request by the Minister of Energy and Water an independent Panel of Experts of the NCEA reviewed the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the hydropower project Memve’ele. In its advisory report, the Panel concludes that more information is needed in order to draw conclusions regarding the project’s probable impacts, ways to mitigate them and institutional arrangements for their implementation. In his reaction, the Minister has indicated that appropriate measures are taken to improve the ESIA using the recommendations of the Panel.
More information about this advice (in French).
published: 17-8-2010 last edited: 17-8-2010 16:20:02
Banjul, The Gambia, 21-24 June.
The National Environmental Agency in the Gambia in cooperation with UNDP and WWF-WAMER organized a workshop on SEA. The target group consisted of 40 members at different ministries from Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Sierra Leone.
The NCEA carried out part of the training using examples of plans, programmes and policies that are currently under development in the region. These are related to petroleum development Mauritania, mining in Guinea, a PRSP and the Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy in The Gambia. The opening session of this workshop was an item on the national evening news.
published: 11-8-2010 last edited: 12-8-2010 15:30:03
NCEA visited Skopje, Macedonia from 5-9 July for an ongoing Macedonian-Dutch SEA capacity development project. During this visit, the NCEA worked with the SEA team of the Macedonian Ministry for Environment and Physical Planning. The team worked on content for an portal on SEA that will be online soon. During the visit, the Ministries SEA experts also met with the Municipality of Skopje to explore application of SEA to the cities masterplan.
published: 15-7-2010 last edited: 27-8-2010 13:30:02
This report presents the results, findings and recommendations of the evaluation of the World Bank's SEA Pilot Program that was undertaken between October 2008 and June 2010.
It shows the importance of integrating environmental, social and, to some extent, economic analysis in a multi-stakeholder policy dialogue for promoting sustainable development. It highlights the need for country ownership for effective SEA at the policy level and suggests that the time is ripe for establishing an international alliance of donors and partner countries for further promoting SEA and environmental and social mainstreaming at the highest strategic level.
The partners in this evaluation are the EEU, Swedish EIA Centre, NCEA and World Bank.
published: 2-7-2010 last edited: 26-7-2010 16:20:03
17 June 2010. In April and June the NCEA visited Pakistan to undertake EIA mapping workshops in 3 Pakistani provinces. The resulting EIA maps give insight into the strengths and weaknesses in EIA regulation and practice in these provinces. These insights will help to focus the activities of the National Programme for Impact Assessment (NIAP) that started this year, and aims to improve impact assessment in Pakistan. The NIAP is implemented by key government agencies together with IUCN Pakistan, and is funded by the Netherlands Embassy.
published: 17-6-2010 last edited: 18-6-2010 13:43:12
Accra, Ghana. Feb. 9-11: The NCEA took part in a preparatory workshop to produce a preliminary Scoping Report for the SEA for the oil and gas sector. This scoping report also contains a description of the further process towards a final SEA report by end of 2010. It will be discussed at a scoping workshop from 23-25 March. Participants in the workshop, which was chaired by the EPA, were the EPA SEA team, representatives from the Ministry of Energy, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, National Development Planning Commission, NORAD (Norway) and the NCEA.
published: 14-3-2010 last edited: 17-3-2010 7:24:48
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