Context
The importance of analytical work as a basis of targeted development assistance is well recognized. Recent revisions to the World Bank’s OP/BP 8.60 emphasize the need to undertake upstream analytic work to assess the environmental implications of policy reforms supported through DPL operations and assess the institutional capacity to address them. Two analytic tools that are currently used to provide input into CASs, PRSPs and country programs and operations are Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) and Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA). CEA is a country level tool that identifies environmental priorities, evaluates the environmental implications of key macro and sector policies and a country’s institutional capacity to address them. SEAs are a tool to integrate environmental considerations upstream into the process of sectoral policy formulation, and also into development plans and programs. On January 18th 2005 a one day Workshop was held to discuss implications of the revised policy on development policy lending and learn from recent experiences with the use of CEAs and SEAs.
Workshop Objective
The main objectives of the workshop were to address:
(i) implications of the revised OP/BP 8.60 on upstream environmental analytic work at the country and sector policy levels
(ii) effectiveness of available analytic tools such as CEA and SEA in mainstreaming environmental concerns into policy dialogue, country programs and operations, and
(iii) policy and institutional reforms that have emerged through the effective use of upstream environmental analytic tools, focusing on what has worked or not worked in specific country contexts.
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Participants
More than 80 colleagues attended the workshop. Development partners representing a number of multilateral development organizations (OECD, UNDP, IBRD, ADB, the Dutch EIA Commission, EC, IADB; bilateral development agencies (CIDA, SIDA, DFID) and NGOs (WWF) attended the Workshop. Staff from all of the Bank’s regions also participated in the Workshop.
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