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The World Bank’s Experience with Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)

The World Bank’s Experience with Country Environmental Analysis (CEA). Sub-Regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points Europe and the CIS 7-8 March 2007, Istanbul. Outline. Background: Evolution of development focus Objectives of Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) Building Blocks

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The World Bank’s Experience with Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)

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  1. The World Bank’s Experience with Country Environmental Analysis(CEA) Sub-Regional Workshop for GEF Focal Points Europe and the CIS 7-8 March 2007, Istanbul

  2. Outline • Background: Evolution of development focus • Objectives of Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) • Building Blocks • Examples of CEA

  3. Background • Development community and Bank CDF emphasize: • long term vision, • country ownership, • partnerships, • focus on development outcomes • good policy based on sound analysis • Need for broader environmental analysis is a part of this vision • Other diagnostic tools available, eg. Poverty and gender assessments – CEA an integrative environmental tool

  4. Objectives of CEA • CEA: systematic, country-level diagnostic environmental analysis • Objectives: • Integrate environmental considerations into country-level development assistance strategies and programs • Open avenues for upstream discussion of key cross-sectoral policy issues behind a country’s environmental challenges • Guide capacity building and institutional reform efforts

  5. Links with Other Tools and Processes • Draws • on work on sustainability and environmental indicators • Country led analyses: NEAP, SER, NSSD • Work undertaken by development partners

  6. Key Building Blocks • State of the environment and priorities for development • Policy analysis • Institutional capacity assessment • Scope: detailed or rapid • Collaboration with country and development partners

  7. Examples of CEA • 10 completed world wide; first in Belarus and Serbia & Montenegro in 2003; 10 ongoing; Ukraine planned • Policy recommendations and identified WB follow up programs • Belarus • Integrated environment into PRSP and CAS • Serbia and Montenegro • Contributed to identification and preparation of investment projects • Serbia EE Project; Montenegro Tourism Project • Led to institutional change • Tunisia decision to establish Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development

  8. Belarus CEA • Objective: To engage government and local stakeholders in dialogue on links between environmental management and underlying policy framework • Content: • Critical review of situation in water, energy, solid waste and NRM • Poverty dimensions of these areas • Macroeconomic linkages and long term sustainability • Recommended: policy actions in support of more environmental sustainability, and investments in above sub-sectors

  9. Serbia and Montenegro CEA • Objectives • Review the existing situation, identify priority areas for policy changes and consider roles of government, private sector and donors • Assess macroeconomic-environmental linkages • Provide basis for defining the Bank’s long term involvement in the environment sector

  10. Main Trends Identified • Deteriorating trends in water, sanitation and waste management • Threat of coastal zone deterioration in Montenegro • Air pollution hotspots • High energy efficiency • Excessive industrial pollution • Weak environmental management system • Transboundary water and global environment issues • Lack of sustainable forest management

  11. Recommendations • Policy measures • Policy and institutional reforms on CZ, biodiversity, EM • Identified areas for immediate investment, eg. Solid waste disposal rural and urban water • Areas for medium term investment: pollution hot spots, energy efficiency, reduce pollution to Danube • Bank supported investment projects

  12. Outcomes • Energy subsidies reduced • Water agencies agree on water charges • EU and donor support to environment management capacity building and legal harmonization • Biodiversity strategy • Environment mainstreamed in CAS • Several Bank Operations including two GEF co-financed

  13. Conclusions • Built knowledge base on environmental issues and priorities • Established dialogue with various government agencies during study • Clarify Bank’s comparative advantage in meeting the priorities • Establish donor coordination; and • Mainstream environment in sector operation thanks to integrated approach

  14. Further Information • http://www.worldbank.org/ • Search for CEA

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