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| | An Instrument for Good Governance |
| Tuesday, June 3 | |
| 3:00 - 5:00pm | Environmentally and socially |
| World Bank J | sustainable policies are essential |
| Building | for good governance. Strategic |
| Auditorium J1-050 | Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the |
| | key tool for integrating |
| | environmental considerations into |
| | policies, programs and plans. This |
| | edited book focuses on SEA applied to |
| | policies. Through lessons learned |
| | from previous use of SEA on policies, |
| | it draws lessons on strengths and |
| | weaknesses of current SEA |
| | methodology. It then goes on to |
| | analyze how policies are formulated |
| | and implemented and proposes a new |
| | conceptual framework for conducting |
| | SEA of policies that potentially |
| | could be more useful in influencing |
| | decision makers to integrate |
| | environmental sustainability |
| | considerations into policy |
| | formulation and implementation. |
| | Currently this framework is being |
| | piloted in developing countries in |
| | different sectors by the World Bank. |
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| | Strategic Environmental Assessment |
| | for Policies: An Instrument for Good |
| | Governance is the third title in the |
| | Environment and Development Series. |
| | This new series from World Bank |
| | Publications covers current and |
| | emerging issues in order to promote |
| | debate and broaden the understanding |
| | of environmental challenges as |
| | integral to equitable and sustained |
| | economic growth. |
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| | For more information or to buy the |
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CHAIRED BY
Inger Andersen
Director, Sustainable Development Department, Africa Region, World
Bank
Ms. Andersen has just been appointed Director of the World Bank's
Sustainable Development Department for the Africa Region (the
department covers water supply and sanitation, water resource
management, energy, agriculture and rural development, environment,
urban development, transport, conflict prevention and social
development) . Prior to her Africa appointment, Ms. Andersen served
as Director of the Sustainable Development Department in the Middle
East and North Africa Region of the World Bank Group. She has also
held positions as Sector Manager in the Bank's Africa Urban and
Water Unit for West and Central Africa and as Sr. Water Resources
Specialist in the Africa Region, where she worked on large river
basins, including the Senegal, the Niger and the Nile River Basins.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Ms. Andersen held various positions
at United Nations Development Program,including managing environment
and water operations and policy dialogue in both Africa and the
Middle East regions. She has also worked in Sudan, where she
managed an NGO supporting drought, famine, and war relief and
rehabilitation in Sudan.
PRESENTED BY CO-EDITORS
Kulsum Ahmed
Lead Environmental Specialist, Environment Department, World Bank
Ms. Ahmed is a lead environmental specialist at the World Bank and
team leader for the environmental institutions and governance
program (which includes, among other activities, the SEA program)
and environmental-health program in the Environment Department. She
has considerable experience as an operations task manager and led
the team that prepared the Bank's first structural adjustment loan
to integrate environmental considerations in key sector's of a
country's economy. She is the World Bank's representative on the
OECD Development Assistance Committee's task team on strategic
environmental assessment. She has authored numerous publications on
energy, the environment, health, strategic assessment, and
industrial pollution.
Ernesto Sánchez-Triana
Senior Environmental Engineer, South Asia Sustainable Development
Department, World Bank
Mr. Sánchez-Triana is a senior environmental engineer in the World
Bank's South Asia Region. Before joining the Bank he taught at
Colombia's National University, managed the Special Division of
Environmental Policy in Colombia's Department of National Planning,
and worked at the Inter-American Development Bank. At the World
Bank, he has led the preparation of policy-based loans that aim to
incorporate environmental considerations into economic and sectoral
policies, as well as the conduction of comprehensive assessments to
identify and correct the institutional weaknesses that contribute to
environmental degradation. Mr. Sánchez-Triana is the author of
numerous publications on environmental and energy policy, political
economy, and the use of economic instruments for environmental
protection.
DISCUSSED BY
Harry Blair
Contributing Author and Lecturer in Political Science, Yale
University
Mr. Blair currently serves as Associate Chair, Senior Research
Scholar and Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University.
Previously he has held positions at Bucknell, Colgate, Columbia,
Cornell and Rutgers Universities. In his research and practical
work, he focused initially on agriculture and rural development
policy, shifting more into forestry and natural resource management
in the 1980s. Since the early 1990s, he has worked mainly in the
democracy and governance area, principally in the civil society and
decentralization sectors. Geographically, his field work and
writing include Eastern Europe, Latin America, and both South and
Southeast Asia. Dr. Blair served several years as senior advisor
with the United States Agency for International Development and has
worked as a short-term consultant for the Department for
International Development (UK), Ford Foundation, Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency, United Nations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
Development Programme, and the World Bank. His recent writing can be
found at http://pantheon.yale.edu/~hb94.
Caroline Kende-Robb
Contributing Author and Sector Manager, Social Development
Department, World Bank
Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Kende-Robb was the first Social
Development Specialist recruited by the International Monetary Fund,
with the responsibility of promoting a greater poverty and social
development focus in Fund-supported programs. Ms. Kende-Robb also
has considerable work experience in the private sector, as well as
with non-governmental organizations. She has lived and worked in
West Africa for extensive periods of time. Ms. Kende-Robb has
published a book titled, Can the Poor Influence Policy?
Participatory Poverty Assessments in the Developing World.
Colin Bruce
Country Director, World Bank
Mr. Bruce, a Guyanese national, is Country Director for Comoros,
Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles and Somalia. In that capacity,
he has worked on many practical aspects of advancing governance
through country and sector strategies and programs. Previously, he
was Senior Manager for Policy Review and Dissemination in the
Operations Policy and Country Services Vice Presidency. One of the
first Strategic Environmental Assessment pilots, using the
conceptual framework described in the book, was carried out to
support implementation of the new Forest Law in Kenya.
Michael Stanley
Senior Mining Engineer, Oil, Gas and Mining, Joint World Bank and
IFC Department
Mr. Stanley, a Canadian national, is a senior mining engineer
(COCPO) with expertise in a) resource assessment, b) economics, and
c) policy issues in the mining sector. His work includes mineral
policy development through improved resource governance, mineral
resource development as a tool for achieving economic
sustainability, indigenous cultures and integrating local issues in
resource development. He is the Task Team Leader for mining
projects in Sierra Leone and Pakistan, co-Task Team Leader for the
Kosovo mining project, and a team member of the Afghanistan mining
project -- all projects where Strategic Environmental Assessment is
currently being undertaken. Prior to joining the World Bank, he
lead a series of major resource policy development projects and
supervised international exploration programs for precious and base
metals. He published numerous articles and papers on mining and
mineral resources.
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