IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Maria Rosário Partidário IST-Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal also on behalf of Fabricio A. Barreto, Ruy de Góes, Vania Soares, Fed. Min Environment Leandro F. Couto, Federal Ministry of Planning Izabella Teixeira, IBAMA-Rio de Janeiro and researcher UFRJ IAIA’07 - Seoul, Korea

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Leadership and organizations directly engaged: (LEADERS) M. Planning + M. Environment + M. Transports, M. Mines and Energy, M. Tourism United Nations Development Programme (support to international consultancy) Capacity Building for SEA in Brazil

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Three components: 1. Technical capacity 2. Institutional capacity (inter and intra organizations) 3. Legal capacity Capacity-Building process

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Capacity-building process - key moments Nov 2005 Technical - political dialogue Between political decision-makers, federal government officials and brazilian consultants on the approach to be adopted for SEA and capacity-building. Federal Secretaries for Planning, Environment and Transports participated in the dialogue. April, 2006 SEA workshop Identify and discuss technical, institutional and legal capacities in place, gaps and needs for capacity building in relevant sectors; Discuss initial premisses of an SEA model for Brazil at federal leval; and Prepare guidelines for capacity-building and priorities for action. June-Sept 2006 Development of a Programme for building technical, institutional and legal capacity for SEA

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil General concept (model) for SEA Objective of SEA - to facilitate planning processes, proactively influencing decisions to ensure sustainability processes. SEA model Decision-centred process Strategic approach Coordinator and help desk - CMA-GT (Assessment and Monitoring Commission - working group for SEA) Each sectoral ministries to develop their own approach in line with agreed general model

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Building Technical capacities About 60 federal government officials trained Two training courses (July and August) on: 1. Planning in Brazil 2.Environmental assessment techniques 3.Environmental Policy instruments 4.Public policies 5.Governance and governability 6.Spatial planning and environmental planning 7.Social participation 8.Indicators 9.General course on SEA (applied to Brazilian cases )

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Building Institutional Capacities Inter-institucional- creating an SEA system, setting up the political decisional context (inter- institucional networks, preferred institutional links across institutions, sharing of tools, actions mechanisms, responsibilities, etc. Intra-institucional - sectorial institutional context that can facilitate SEA ownership by different sectors –“SEA nests”

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Major challenges  Dialogue across sectors around a strategic vision on environment  Legislation that supports rather than blocks  Ensure sectors ownership of SEA - SEA should belong to those that use it, not to those that consider it should be used  Change of culture from EIA to SEA Key question for SEA in Brazil: How to change perspective - from environmental impacts to strategic use of environmental resources?

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Establish a stratgeic based methodology (and multiply)+ Guiding procedures + SEA nests Ensure follow-up of results through CMA-GT Implementation - priorities

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Successful SEA  Focus on strategies - optional ways to meet objectives  SEA is a facilitator of decision-making and taylor-made  Promotes paths to sustainability  Favours good governance  Adds value to decision-making

IAIA’07, Partidário et al., Building capacity for SEA in Brazil Thank You Maria do Rosário Partidário