1. Consultant: CMDC Joint Venture 1 General Principles of EIA Centres (based on “Establishing & Operating an EIA Centre” by EIA Centre Manchester and Ecoline Moscow) Jan Veeken EIA Expert, DHV Netherlands June 8 th 2004

2. Consultant: CMDC Joint Venture 2 Main activities EIA Centre Education and training Research activities Information and advisory services Data Information and contacts Information and materials for trainings New methods, data

3. Consultant: CMDC Joint Venture 3 Information and advisory services  Needs analysis: relevant to users  Obtaining documents for the document collection, web-site: good storage and location recorded on the data-base  Providing access to information resources: free and open with reading and photocopying facilities, Newsletter  Providing EA advisory service: standardised EA advice notes for routine requests  Monitoring, analysis and evaluation: Annually review of services related to the strategy  Planning for information service funding: charging users, sponsorships, grants (information services: 50% of time)

4. Consultant: CMDC Joint Venture 4 Providing Education and Training Courses  Trainings needs analysis: types of trainees, types of training  Survey of existing EA Education and Training Provisions: short and long courses, ‘on-the-job-training  Identifies of EA Education and Training Deficiencies: quantitative and qualitative, training the trainers  Construction of the EA Training Strategy: regional case- studies, learner-active training styles, different institutes, different trainers  Implementation of EA Trainings: organisation, preparation, evaluation

5. Consultant: CMDC Joint Venture 5 EA Research Activities  Research Needs Analysis: consultation of researchers and potential users of findings  Survey of Existing EA Research Activities: ongoing activities and recent publications, also international  Identify Major deficiencies in EA Research: not only lack of knowledge but failures in dissemination  Construct the EA Research Strategy: involvement of research users  Implementation of Research Activities: discussion of drafts, national workshops

6. Consultant: CMDC Joint Venture 6 EA Centre Networking Cooperation and Communication between different centres  Jointly resources  Jointly activities  New Centres can learn from existing Centres Contribution to network development and maintenance:  Conferences and workshops  Publishing information newsletter  Actual website with electronic discussion groups

7. Consultant: CMDC Joint Venture 7 Guiding organisational principles EIA Centres  Credibility: seniors from different stakeholders in Steering committee  Openness and objectivity: services available to all stakeholders and preference for co-operative working  Organisational and management clarity: clear and simple blue-print for the Centre’s goals, its management and strategy  Realism: taking into account the available resources  Cost-effective administration: A simple but sound budgeting and financial accounting system. Effective administrative provisions for publicising the Centre's activities and for fund raising