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NEW DIRECTIONS IN IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT: METHODS AND PRACTICE

Antoienette Oscarsson, Eva Stephansson and Hans-Georg Wallentinus Swedish EIA Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

e-mail: antoienette.oscarsson@lpul.slu.se, http://www-mkb.slu.se.

Routines for EIA at certain development agencies

Link to full paper (forthcoming)

ABSTRACT

The Swedish Government has reinforced its commitment to Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) in the support to key development areas. It has instructed the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) to increase its efforts to participate in such a process, and to shift from project to programme support whenever possible. Sida will therefore increase its co-financing with other donors and go into cooperation with a few donors in the position as "silent partnership". With this in mind the EIA policies of some development cooperation organisations have been studied.

The result is mainly based on information available at the internet but also attained from direct information.

The study is principally made of such organisations that Sida have or will begin cooperation with in the form of "silent partnership". Other organisations that have been studied are various UN agencies, multinational banks and development cooperation agencies of some of our neighbours among the Nordic countries.

A conclusion from the study is that there are both similarities and differences compared to Sida's policy, but the main difference is that no one seems to make EIA's for all their projects which Sida has to do, even if the EIA can be very small (actually just a screening).

Key words: EIA guidelines, development cooperation, silent partnership, Sida, Sector Wide Approach (SWAp)

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