Ineke Steinhauer
Technical secretary
Upon request of environmental authorities, the NCEA drafted an advice concerning an approach for future use of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in Ghana's mining sector.
Following an SEA for the mining sector, conducted in 2008, the NCEA was asked to collaborate with the Ghanaian Minerals Commission (MC) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify:
To fulfill these requests, the NCEA performed a quick scan of the mining sector SEA, and subsequently produced an advice of the secretariat in which the four issues were addressed.
Photo (Wassa gold mine): taken from "MSSP / National EIA & SEA Project. EIA Stage 2 Final Report." June 2008.