Leyla Özay
Senior Advisor Environmental and Social Assessment
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) is well established in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, where it has been part of project design and permitting decision-making for 20 years. In an effort to continually improve the effectiveness of ESIA, the Ministry for Environment of Jordan invited the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) to facilitate a workshop on this topic. The NCEA made use of ESY-mapping for this workshop, which is a diagnostic tool for assessing the quality of a national ESIA system. The NCEA was able to provide this facilitation as part of the Dutch Government's collaboration with Jordan.
Significant details
The ESY-mapping workshop took place in Amman in November 2019. In three days, a varied group of stakeholders in the ESIA process discussed the strengths and challenges of their regulation and practice.
The objective of the ESY-mapping workshop was twofold:
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To raise awareness on what ESIA good practice is internationally, and how different countries have designed and are applying this instrument.
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To provide a shared understanding of the strengths of the ESIA system in Jordan, and the priorities for future action. The ESY-mapping results will form the basis of further design of the co-operation activities of the NCEA in Jordan.
The results have been documented in a report available on this website.