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?  Organization of the SEA Toolkit  Basic Information  Sectors  Tools  What’s new?  How to access & demonstration

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

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 21 sectors 20 handbooks, manuals and guidelines 20 handbooks, manuals and guidelines 100 SEA reports, summaries and TORs 100 SEA reports, summaries and TORs More than 25 links to relevant SEA websites More than 25 links to relevant SEA websites 21 commonly used SEA tools 21 commonly used SEA tools

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

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?

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

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

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

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)

How to Access the Toolkit

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