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World Bank’s Strategic Environmental Assessment Toolkit

World Bank’s Strategic Environmental Assessment Toolkit. STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN AFRICA REGIONAL WORKSHOP ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, June 16-19,2008. Fernando Loayza, Sr. SEA Specialist, World Bank. Content . Background and Objective What is the SEA Toolkit?

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World Bank’s Strategic Environmental Assessment Toolkit

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  1. World Bank’s Strategic Environmental Assessment Toolkit STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN AFRICA REGIONAL WORKSHOP ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, June 16-19,2008 Fernando Loayza, Sr. SEA Specialist, World Bank

  2. Content • Background and Objective • What is the SEA Toolkit? • Organization of the SEA Toolkit • Basic Information • Sectors • Tools • What’s new? • How to access & demonstration

  3. Background and Objective • Objective: To support Task Managers and environmental specialists to prepare and implement SEAs • The toolkit became available over the Internet in 2006 • It is constantly being updated  only available online

  4. What is the SEA Toolkit? • It is an online SEA resource library • Guides the user on SEA concepts and methods and provides concrete SEA examples • Compiles SEA relevant information on: • 21 sectors • 20 handbooks, manuals and guidelines • 100 SEA reports, summaries and TORs • More than 25 links to relevant SEA websites • 21 commonly used SEA tools

  5. Organization • Three main components: • Basic Information • Sectors • Tools • Other information: • SEA workshops • Bank SEA publications • SEA external links

  6. SEA Toolkit: Basic Information • Answers the following questions: • When is an SEA needed? • What type of SEA is the most adequate? • What are the key issues in formulating and conducting effective SEAs? • What are the good practices or examples to draw on to design and implement SEAs?

  7. SEA Toolkit: Sectors • Sectors are based on the World Bank’s sector structure • Provides SEA materials (i.e., handbooks, manuals and guidelines, SEA reports, summaries and TORs from the World Bank and other organizations) by sector

  8. SEA Toolkit: SEA Tools • Describes 21 tools • Analytical tools • Descriptive tools • Participatory tools • Provides reference materials for each tool described

  9. SEA Toolkit: Other Information • SEA workshops • Presentations and hands-on exercises from the SEA workshops held at the World Bank • Bank SEA publication • Publication that discusses SEA (i.e., not SEA reports) • A link to the World Bank’s East Asia and the Pacific region’s SEA web site • SEA external links • Links to IAIA, UN agencies’ SEA related web sites, among others

  10. What’s new? • Policy SEA page – social learning cycle • Climate change – only a few resources available by now • SEA report search engine (upcoming) • It allows the users to search through thousands of World Bank documents for “potentially” SEA reports • The mechanism is based on key-word search  limitation (e.g., it may select a report that only makes a reference to a SEA report)

  11. How to Access the Toolkit http://www.worldbank.org/seatoolkit

  12. Thank you. http://www.worldbank.org/seatoolkit

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