SAIEA Projects

  • Cleaner Production

The Cleaner Production Component of the Ministry of Environment & Tourism in Namibia has contracted SAIEA to conduct a two week training course on Cleaner Production methodologies and practices.
 
The course will be conducted from 3-12 April 2006. The course fee is N$ 5,500 per participant. Click here to read learn more...
 

The main aim of the CBBIA project is to improve the integration of biodiversity conservation within impact assessment and decision making processes. Through this, the ultimate objective is to achieve sustainable development.

In order to strengthen capacity within the region, SAIEA provides a range of training and skills-development programmes relating to EIA and sustainable development. Training is targeted at government officials, developers, non-government organisations, the private sector and EIA practitioners. Current activities include the development of training materials, presenting short training courses and hosting the Professional Development Programme, which provides participants with hands-on experience in conducting an EIA under field conditions.

In cooperation with CIDA and supported by World Bank TF-ESSD funds SAIEA has launched the Calabash Project in 2003. The project is one step of many to assist the SADC region to move forward on democratic reform by using EIA as a catalyst for participatory decision-making by providing appropriate tools knowledge and networks to regulators, civil society, practitioners and industry of the SADC region.

In 2003 SAIEA in cooperation with DANNIDA has compiled a comprehensive - though by now slightly outdated - overview of the State of Environmental Assessment in the SADC region. Its contents deal with policy practice and institutional issues. It also contains a list of useful references and contact numbers.

Supporting sustainable development in Southern Africa through promoting the

effective and efficient use of Environmental Assessment as a planning tool.