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Country Environmental Analysis and Strategic Environmental Assessment

Country Environmental Analysis and Strategic Environmental Assessment . Kulsum Ahmed, Team Leader, Environmental Institutions and Governance Team, The World Bank Workshop on SEA in Development Cooperation Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, January 25, 2005. Emphasis on economic growth

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Country Environmental Analysis and Strategic Environmental Assessment

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  1. Country Environmental Analysis and Strategic Environmental Assessment Kulsum Ahmed, Team Leader, Environmental Institutions and Governance Team, The World Bank Workshop on SEA in Development Cooperation Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, January 25, 2005

  2. Emphasis on economic growth Environment as constraint, add-on, self-standing, Northern agenda Donor driven Investment in ring-fenced projects Support to sustainable development Environment as part of the development agenda (MDG #7) Country owned Support to broad programs, reforms, social transformation Changing Focus of Development Assistance

  3. Impact assessment Focus on technical solutions Attention to projects Upstream analysis Focus on policies and institutions Attention to country capacity Shifting Focus of Environmental Tools

  4. Context • Environment Strategy (2001): • Identified the need to be more systematic on country-level environmental diagnostic work • Emphasized the need to address complex cross-sectoral environmental issues through SEAs • Expanded use of programmatic and policy-based lending instruments calls for increased knowledge to design policy reforms and capacity building programs

  5. Objectives of CEA • CEA aims to: • Integrate environmental considerations into country-level development assistance strategies and programs • Open avenues for upstream discussion of key cross-sectoral policy issues behind the country’s environmental challenges • Guide capacity building and institutional reform efforts (from EA systems to growth policies, as applicable)

  6. CEA “Building Blocks” State of the Environment And Priorities for Development Policy Analysis Institutional Capacity And Performance Assessment • Improvequality of life: • Poverty-environment • Environmental Health • Vulnerability to environmental disasters • Improve quality of growth and environmental governance • Global and regional environmental issues and linkages to local challenges

  7. Dominican Republic Colombia OVER-VIEW OF WORLD BANK CEA PILOTS Belarus Serbia and Montenegro Tunisia Pakistan Egypt Uttar Pradesh Bangladesh Ethiopia Vietnam Karnataka Nigeria Mozambique Legend: Completed CEAs Ongoing CEAs Planned CEAs

  8. Varying Contexts for CEA pilots • Ethiopia: • Context: PRSP process, budget support, donor coordination • Focus: poverty-environment links, institutional capacity • Tunisia: • Context: Solid macro performance and environmental improvements, but severe pressure on natural resource base • Focus: Trend analysis, priority issues, policy and legal reforms, capacity building, new Strategic Environment Assessments • Colombia: • Context: Adjustment operations in several areas • Focus: Preparation of adjustment loan for sustainable development

  9. Strategic Environment Assessment • A participatory approach for upstreaming environmental and social issues to influence development planning, programming, and implementation processes at the strategic level • Importance highlighted in Environment Strategy (2001) • Mainly carried out in application of safeguard policies or as AAA

  10. How does one do SEA? • Output-based: extension of EIA, typically applied to plans and programs • Many examples, typically challenge is to fully realize generation of alternatives and level of public participation • Methodologies range from impact-oriented to integrative analysis • Continuous process: systematically mainstreaming environmental considerations into public policy formulation and implementation • Learning and building from pilot experiences • Enormous promise as social learning mechanism to influence institutional change

  11. Comparison and Linkages • CEAs take a broader look at links between environment, poverty reduction and economic and social development • CEAs look at environmental implications of a set of policies and programs – linkage to PRSP and PRSC • SEAs look in far more detail at the implications of a specific policy, sectoral reform or sub-national development/land-use plan • SEAs often feed into a CEA or arise out of a CEA

  12. Institutions and Governance Team • Support use of upstream analytical tools, incl. CEA & SEA • Focus on institutional capacity building and improving environmental governance

  13. Institutions and Governance Work Program: Key Elements (I) • Design and Prepare CEA and SEA Toolkits • Support initiation of pilots on Rapid CEA • Learn how best to integrate the environmental and social dimensions: pilots on joint CEA/CSA • Experiment with combining CEA/SEA methodologies through piloting

  14. Institutions and Governance Work Program: Key Elements (II) • Analyze lessons learnt and methodologies from past CEAs and SEAs • Provide cross-support to Regions strategically • Implement learning, dissemination and training program • Continue dialogue with Development Partners

  15. More Information http://www.worldbank.org/sea/ http://www.worldbank.org/cea/

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