Training Opportunities
IAIA recognizes that the training of EIA professionals is a key to effective impact assessments. Through its Training and Professional Development Committee, this section of the IAIA web site will provide members and non-members with information regarding training manuals, training courses, and other aspects of EIA capacity building.
IAIA has just begun developing its training network. If you know of information that would make this section more useful, please contact info@iaia.org
Training Home
- UNEP Training Manual
- Use this link to buy or print a copy of the “Training Resource Manual for Environmental Impact Assessment” (2nd Edition), including Transparencies and Case Studies prepared by the United Nations Environment Program. This 600 page document is a must for any person who is engaged in EIA training.
- Training Network
- This link will help EIA professionals use the Internet to find out about training programs and EIA learning resources around the world.
- Training Course Database
Other Manuals and Reports
- Strategic Environmental Assessment Manual
- IAIA is pleased to make available, at no cost, the course manual on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), prepared by Maria Rosário Partidário. Dr. Partidário's course on SEA has been the best-attended training session at IAIA's annual meetings for many years, and gets high ratings from attendees for its presentation of SEA current practices, future demands and capacity building needs.
- International Study of the Effectiveness of Environmental Assessment - Final Report
- IAIA is pleased to make available, at no cost, the final report on "Environmental assessment in a changing world : evaluating practice to improve performance" prepared by Barry Sadler. The two year international EA effectiveness study, commissioned by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and IAIA and taken forward by an international consortium of countries and international agencies, remains a landmark review of the field and it still remains a relevant statement of good practices.
- A Tool Kit for Effective EIA Practice
- This component of the Effectiveness Study (see above) discusses 22 types of methods within the Environmental Impact Assessment process, and presents overall thoughts on the appropriate use of such methods.
- EIA Training Resource Manual for South Eastern Europe
- This adaptation of the 2002 UNEP Manual has been prepared by the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), which is headquartered in Hungary and which operates a network of 16 country and field offices in all countries of the region. The manual, funded by the European Union, is intended for specific application in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro including Kosovo). It offers an overview of EIA development in South Eastern Europe, provides a set of training materials for specific countries, and includes a wide collection of relevant documents that can be used in EIA reforms in the region. The manual has been translated and pilot tested in 5 countries and can be obtained in CD-ROM version by sending an e-mail request to environmental.assessment@rec.org.
- Recource Manual to Support Application of the UNECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment
- This manual, produced by UNECE and the REC, is freely available at the above link. The manual highlights the main requirements of the Protocol on SEA, outlines the key issues for applying the Protocol in practice and provides materials for training and capacity-development programmes supporting application of the Protocol (including a printable manual in English and Russian, slide sets, and links to case studies, other guidance materials and numerous other resources). The manual is expected to be used by: (a) those who want to learn about the Protocol and the theory of its application, including government and other officials working on the application of the Protocol, practitioners carrying out SEAs and stakeholders wishing to participate in the SEA process; and (b) those who want to advise and train others on the Protocol's requirements and the application of SEA. The elements of the manual that focus on the application of SEA in practice may also be of use to those applying the European Union's SEA Directive.
Other Resources