  Bulgaria and Romania: Methods and Tools for Practical Application of the Espoo Convention in Romania and Bulgaria (Environmental Experts Association and Institute for Ecological Modernisation, 2005). Section 4: Methodological and procedural aspects of the joint implementation of the Espoo Convention and the Aarhus Convention (page 18) and Annex 1: Methods for public involvement (page 27) discuss the tools used for public participation.Â
 Calabash Project website provides tools created through the Calabash project that developed a process and capacity to enhance participation in decision-making in the SADC (Southern African Development Community) region Africa. Calabash was not designed to actually do public participation, but rather was structured so that regulators, private sector, practitioners and civil society had the capacity, knowledge and tools to better undertake respective public participation programs on individual projects and programmes. It includes a Handbook for Public Participation in Environmental Assessment in Southern Africa (2005).  Citizen's Handbook (by C. Dobson,Vancouver Citizens Committee, 2006).  This website provides resources for citizens participation, such as UNESCO best practices in citizen participation and urban governance.   Ethiopia: participatory impact assessment in Ethiopia  (by C. Hopkins and A. Short, 2002).  This paper describes how a national-level Participatory Impact Assessment Team (PIAT) was set up in Ethiopia to inform policy on the requirements for effective Community Animal Health Worker (CAHW) projects.  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)'s public consultation requirements and accountability mechanism is discussed in Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal volume 22 (by E. T. Smith and A. Schin, 2004).  IAIA Special Publication Series No. 4 Public Participation Best Practice Principles (by P. André, 2006).  International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) website has a searchable resource database and case studies on its Public Participation Knowledge Network website as well as the Public Participation Toolbox summarizing various public participation methods.  Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe developed the Manual on Public Participation in Environmental Decisionmaking (edited by M. T. Nagy, M. Bowman, J. Dusik, J. Jendroska, S. Stec, K. van der Zwiep and J. Zlinszky, 1994).  United Kingdom: Handbook of Good Practices in Public Participation at the Local Level (Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, 2000).  This handbook provides practical information in implementing the Aarhus Convention – the convention that gives the public the right to obtain information on the environment, the right to justice in environmental matters and the right to participate in decisions that affect the environment. Chapter 6 (page 37) covers public participation in the preparation of plans and programmes and chapter 8 (page 56) discusses participation techniques.  Case studies can be found on  the UNECE web page for this handbook (in English and Russian). United Kingdom: Participation Handbook (Scottish Parliament, 2004).  Section 5.1 (page 18) covers public participation methods. United Kingdom: Viewfinder: A Policy Makers Guide to Public Involvement  (Cabinet Office, 2002).  Annex 1.2 lists public participation methods (page 44).  This guide also includes a section on E-consultation (page 26).  World Bank has  its own tools for public participation and other papers:                            |
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