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Capacity Building for Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA)

Training sessions developed for the Global Environment Outlook initiative

Based on the reference manuals developed for the Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA), training programs have been developed and implemented in a number of countries. The trainings are intended to increase national and regional institutional capacity to produce regular integrated environmental assessments and reports. By drawing directly and indirectly on the GEO methods and framework, the training program is also expected to strengthen UNEP's regional, global, thematic and ecosystem level assessment and reporting efforts.

• Capacity Building for Integrated Environmental Assessment and Reporting: Training Manual (2nd Ed.)
  In collaboration with UNEP and Ecologistics International Inc., IISD led the development of a training manual on Integrated Environmental Assessment and reporting building on the approach of UNEP's Global Environment Outlook up until GEO-3.
  
  Available in English, French and Spanish, the manual provides content for running an interactive four-day training course aimed primarily at assessment and reporting system planners and practitioners at the national level. By building capacity at the national level, it also aimed at strengthening the basis for assessments at the regional and global scale. Course participants are expected to develop an understanding of establishing and managing an assessment and reporting process, analyzing the state of the environment, assessing policy responses and developing alternative scenarios.
  
  The primary audience for the training is comprised of high-level technical experts in national or state/provincial government agencies who are usually responsible for coordinating the environment or development process, or both. Although the assessment and reporting framework on which the program is based is generic, it is also applicable at lower scales.

The training program has been delivered in various forms in workshops around the world by UNEP, IISD and other GEO Collaborating Centres. Usually, a team of two qualified instructors delivers the training program to a group of about 25 participants. To date the following training sessions have been held:

Place	Date	Organizer
Manama, Bahrain	December 1998	UNEP and Arabian Gulf University
Accra, Ghana	May 1999	UNEP and IUCN
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	November 1999	UNEP and UNDP
Libreville, Gabon	February 2000	UNEP
Nairobi, Kenya	March 2000	UNEP
Quatre Bornes	May 2000	UNEP and Indian Ocean Commission
Harare, Zimbabwe	October 2000	UNEP
Manama, Bahrain	January 2001	UNEP Regional Office for West Asia (ROWA)
Castries, Saint Lucia	March 2003	UNEP Regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean

• Training based on the GEO Resource Book (2006)
  During 2005 and 2006 UNEP and IISD prepared a major update of the GEO Training Manual that is to be launched in early 2007 as the GEO Resource Book. More information on upcoming training will be available in the near future.

For more information please contact IISD's Director of Measurement and Assessment, László Pintér.

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