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INVITE YOU TO A LAUNCH OF A RECENT WORLD BANK PUBLICATION FOLLOWED BY A
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Strategic Environmental Assessment for Policies
An Instrument for Good Governance
Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good
governance. Strategic 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.
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.
For more information or to buy the book, please click here.
Tuesday, June 3
3:00 - 5:00pm
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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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