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SPREP Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Review Template


This EIA review template is extracted from the "SPREP Strengthening Environmental Impact Assessment: Guidelines for Pacific Island Countries and Territories (2016)". This publication, Strengthening Environmental Impact Assessment: Guidelines for Pacific Island Countries and Territories (EIA Guidelines), has been produced to meet the Strategic Plan target, to address identified EIA capacity building needs, and to update and build upon previous environmental assessment publications prepared by, or on behalf of, SPREP.

This publication is targeted at government officers who are responsible for administering or managing EIA, or who engage with the EIA process in other regulatory or development proponent capacities (e.g. officers working in areas such as planning, health, energy, water, transport, fisheries, agriculture, natural resources). The EIA Guidelines are applicable to the full range of projects and economic development sectors in the Pacific and aim to support the implementation of current EIA legal requirements and to strengthen Pacific-based application of
the EIA process by:

  • emphasising the importance of assessing the potential impacts of development on the environment and the potential impacts of the environment on development, especially impacts related to climate change and disasters;

  • providing a clear overview of the EIA process, supported by an EIA toolkit that includes templates and checklists for EIA screening, scoping and review;

  • presenting an introduction to strategic environmental assessment, an approach that provides context for EIA;

  • outlining considerations and recommendations for effective EIA;

  • giving guidance to countries should they wish to develop their own national EIA guidelines; and

  • linking the EIA process to MEAs.