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Juan Palerm commented on a debate | 27 April 2018

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Dear colleagues, I would like to follow up a bit on inteventions by Rodrigo, Jiri and David. I understand that hearing about different approaches to SEA may be a bit confusing, so I would like to introduce a word of clarification, especially for the benefit of colleagues in EU delegations. 1...

Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Jeanne De Cannière commented on a debate | 26 April 2018

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The training Towards Sustainable Development: Greening EU Development Cooperation will take place on 7 and 8 June in Brussels. The training includes a session on practical tools and approaches to integrate environment and climate change at the various stages of the operations cycle covering the SEA...

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Rodrigo Jiliberto commented on a debate | 25 April 2018

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Juan, I understand the purpose to promote SEA in the aid framework, somehow the EU cover its sustainability responsibility when giving financial support to third countries and this is fine of course. The complexity began with the fact that SEA is an institutional sophisticated tool, degree of...

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Juan Palerm commented on a debate | 25 April 2018

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Putting together some of the above comments I would say that there is no single or standard approach to SEA, and that the best approach is that which will promote more environmentally sustainable and climate resilient policies and strategies.

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Juan Palerm commented on a debate | 25 April 2018

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Thanks for your comments Rodrigo. I fully agree that it's easier to promote strategic assessment and planning when the benefits are understood by the authorities. At the end of the day we could say a good SEA is basically good planning explicitly informed by environmental challenges and concerns...

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Rodrigo Jiliberto commented on a debate | 25 April 2018

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Hi, I’m Rodrigo Jiliberto. As most of you I’ve been working on SEA several years and in particular in Latin America. I find this a very interesting discussion. In the forefront I’d like to agree with Juan’s statement that SEA is a benefit in its own right. However, our perception about how...

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David Annandale commented on a debate | 25 April 2018

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In response to Paolo's question ... I think that one of the real strengths of SEA is to force (encourage?) governments to look forward beyond the standard political cycle ... and thereby to pinpoint longer term resource problems and infrastructure needs. For example, perhaps if the South African...

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Juan Palerm updated the Debate | 25 April 2018

The discussion forum on SEA is now closed. We want to thank you for your valuable contributions to this SEA community of practice discussion forum. Although we are all working on or have an interest in SEA, we develop our particular understanding and good practice approaches to SEA which others can...

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Juan Palerm commented on a debate | 25 April 2018

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With regards to the successful SEA cases, the case presented by David in Pakistan is very interesting, and there is a similar example for hydroelectric planning in Vietnam. I would also like to draw attention to the SEA for the agriculture sector in Rwanda. Some key success factors were: 1. Good...

Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Jiri Dusik commented on a debate | 25 April 2018

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Dear Paolo, We dealt with very similar challenge when introducing SEA in Indonesia as part of Danida support there. Our SEA approach was exactly as you suggest. In sensitive cases (e.g. SEA of Presidential Master Plan for Economic Restructuring - MP3EI) we proceeded through the following steps: 1...

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