Strategic Environmental Assessment in the World Bank : Learning from Recent Experience and Challenges

This report presents the results of a review of the World Bank's Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) experience undertaken by the World Bank learning community-the SEA Community of Practice (CoP). This report is no more than a first step....

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Main Author: Loayza, Fernando
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Language:English
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topic ACCESS TO INFORMATION
AGRICULTURE
AIR POLLUTION
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
ASSET VALUATION
BENEFIT ANALYSIS
BIODIVERSITY
CARBON
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT
COASTAL ZONE
COMMON GOOD
DECISION MAKING
DEFORESTATION
DELTA
EFFECTIVE MONITORING
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
FOREST
FOREST MANAGEMENT
FORESTRY
FUEL
GULF
INTERNATIONAL WATERS
INTERNATIONAL WATERWAYS
LAND DEGRADATION
LAND USE
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
NATURAL CAPITAL
NATURAL RESOURCES
NATURAL RESOURCES DEGRADATION
PARTNER COUNTRY
PARTNERSHIP
PEST MANAGEMENT
POLICY MAKERS
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PORTFOLIO
POWER GENERATION
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
RECLAMATION
REDUCING EMISSIONS
REGIONAL SEA
RIPARIAN
RISK MANAGEMENT
RIVER
RIVER BASIN
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SCIENCES
SEA
SEAS
SEWAGE
SPRING
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TRANSPARENCY
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WATER MANAGEMENT
WATER RESOURCES
WATERS
WATERWAYS
spellingShingle ACCESS TO INFORMATION
AGRICULTURE
AIR POLLUTION
AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
ASSET VALUATION
BENEFIT ANALYSIS
BIODIVERSITY
CARBON
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
COASTAL DEVELOPMENT
COASTAL ZONE
COMMON GOOD
DECISION MAKING
DEFORESTATION
DELTA
EFFECTIVE MONITORING
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
FOREST
FOREST MANAGEMENT
FORESTRY
FUEL
GULF
INTERNATIONAL WATERS
INTERNATIONAL WATERWAYS
LAND DEGRADATION
LAND USE
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
NATURAL CAPITAL
NATURAL RESOURCES
NATURAL RESOURCES DEGRADATION
PARTNER COUNTRY
PARTNERSHIP
PEST MANAGEMENT
POLICY MAKERS
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PORTFOLIO
POWER GENERATION
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
RECLAMATION
REDUCING EMISSIONS
REGIONAL SEA
RIPARIAN
RISK MANAGEMENT
RIVER
RIVER BASIN
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SCIENCES
SEA
SEAS
SEWAGE
SPRING
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TRANSPARENCY
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WATER MANAGEMENT
WATER RESOURCES
WATERS
WATERWAYS
Loayza, Fernando
Strategic Environmental Assessment in the World Bank : Learning from Recent Experience and Challenges
description This report presents the results of a review of the World Bank's Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) experience undertaken by the World Bank learning community-the SEA Community of Practice (CoP). This report is no more than a first step. Its findings and results cannot be treated as conclusive. The World Bank follows the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in describing SEA as 'analytical and participatory approaches to strategic decision-making that aim to integrate environmental considerations into policies, plans and programs, and evaluate the inter linkages with economic and social considerations'. Over time SEA has become more strategic by bringing different groups of stakeholders into an environmental and social dialogue in an iterative and adaptive way. Impact-centered approaches to SEA best fit to integrate environmental considerations in plans and programs where environmental impacts and risks can be identified and predicted. Country environmental analysis is a type of policy SEA developed to inform the dialogue between the Bank and client countries on national environmental priorities. The main objective is to strengthen Bank staff's capacity on SEA by fostering learning in applying SEA in World Bank-supported projects and thus contribute to sustainable development outcomes in programs, plans, and policies of client countries. To achieve this objective, among other activities of the SEA CoP, there is a component to take stock of the Bank's recent regional experience with the following scope of work. The structure of this report organized as: chapter two presents the synthesis and conclusions from the cross-analysis of the regional reviews. Chapters three through eight present the findings and conclusions of the regional reviews. Chapter three on the SEA experience in East Asia and the Pacific focuses on the use of SEA mainly as a tool for environmental safeguarding. Chapter four analyzes the use of SEA as a planning and policy tool drawing on the Middle East and North Africa experience. A mixed experience with impact-centered and policy SEA approaches is described by chapter five on South Asia. Chapter six on Sub-Saharan Africa shows a trend of using SEA initially for environmental safeguarding but later for informing policy making. Chapter seven shows that sector reforms and infrastructure developments have influenced the use of SEA in Latin America. And the mixed results of promoting SEA practice by making it regionally mandatory through the European Union's SEA directive are described in chapter eight on Europe and Central Asia.
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title_short Strategic Environmental Assessment in the World Bank : Learning from Recent Experience and Challenges
title_full Strategic Environmental Assessment in the World Bank : Learning from Recent Experience and Challenges
title_fullStr Strategic Environmental Assessment in the World Bank : Learning from Recent Experience and Challenges
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spelling okr-10986-271192021-04-23T14:04:40Z Strategic Environmental Assessment in the World Bank : Learning from Recent Experience and Challenges Loayza, Fernando Loayza, Fernando ACCESS TO INFORMATION AGRICULTURE AIR POLLUTION AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ASSET VALUATION BENEFIT ANALYSIS BIODIVERSITY CARBON CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE COASTAL DEVELOPMENT COASTAL ZONE COMMON GOOD DECISION MAKING DEFORESTATION DELTA EFFECTIVE MONITORING ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY FOREST FOREST MANAGEMENT FORESTRY FUEL GULF INTERNATIONAL WATERS INTERNATIONAL WATERWAYS LAND DEGRADATION LAND USE LEGAL FRAMEWORK NATURAL CAPITAL NATURAL RESOURCES NATURAL RESOURCES DEGRADATION PARTNER COUNTRY PARTNERSHIP PEST MANAGEMENT POLICY MAKERS POLITICAL ECONOMY PORTFOLIO POWER GENERATION PROGRAMS PUBLIC PARTICIPATION RECLAMATION REDUCING EMISSIONS REGIONAL SEA RIPARIAN RISK MANAGEMENT RIVER RIVER BASIN RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCIENCES SEA SEAS SEWAGE SPRING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRANSPARENCY WASTE MANAGEMENT WATER MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCES WATERS WATERWAYS This report presents the results of a review of the World Bank's Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) experience undertaken by the World Bank learning community-the SEA Community of Practice (CoP). This report is no more than a first step. Its findings and results cannot be treated as conclusive. The World Bank follows the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in describing SEA as 'analytical and participatory approaches to strategic decision-making that aim to integrate environmental considerations into policies, plans and programs, and evaluate the inter linkages with economic and social considerations'. Over time SEA has become more strategic by bringing different groups of stakeholders into an environmental and social dialogue in an iterative and adaptive way. Impact-centered approaches to SEA best fit to integrate environmental considerations in plans and programs where environmental impacts and risks can be identified and predicted. Country environmental analysis is a type of policy SEA developed to inform the dialogue between the Bank and client countries on national environmental priorities. The main objective is to strengthen Bank staff's capacity on SEA by fostering learning in applying SEA in World Bank-supported projects and thus contribute to sustainable development outcomes in programs, plans, and policies of client countries. To achieve this objective, among other activities of the SEA CoP, there is a component to take stock of the Bank's recent regional experience with the following scope of work. The structure of this report organized as: chapter two presents the synthesis and conclusions from the cross-analysis of the regional reviews. Chapters three through eight present the findings and conclusions of the regional reviews. Chapter three on the SEA experience in East Asia and the Pacific focuses on the use of SEA mainly as a tool for environmental safeguarding. Chapter four analyzes the use of SEA as a planning and policy tool drawing on the Middle East and North Africa experience. A mixed experience with impact-centered and policy SEA approaches is described by chapter five on South Asia. Chapter six on Sub-Saharan Africa shows a trend of using SEA initially for environmental safeguarding but later for informing policy making. Chapter seven shows that sector reforms and infrastructure developments have influenced the use of SEA in Latin America. And the mixed results of promoting SEA practice by making it regionally mandatory through the European Union's SEA directive are described in chapter eight on Europe and Central Asia. 2017-06-13T20:52:44Z 2017-06-13T20:52:44Z 2012-09 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/798361468332063446/Strategic-environmental-assessment-in-the-World-Bank-learning-from-recent-experience-and-challenges http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27119 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Strategic Environmental Assessment/Analysis Economic & Sector Work