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? To provide effective leadership, the lead institution needs to appoint a senior staff person with Module
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b. Local technical team

The role of the technical team is to undertake specialized analysis, provide, analyze and interpret

data, provide peer review, and help engage the wider expert community.

Selection of effective technical partners is crucial for the process. Criteria for selection may include Abu Dhabi, UAE
the following:

? Experience in integrated environmental assessment;

? High public profile and recognized leadership capacity
? Good relationship with the national environmental authority;

? Capacity to dialogue with different stakeholders from both the public and private sector, and ability
to build consensus on key environmental issues;

? Experience in organizing and facilitating workshops; and

? Sufficient human resources to dedicate to a demanding assessment.

The selection could be accomplished by direct invitation by the national environmental authority or
through a tendering process. It is important to recognize that the IEA process cannot begin until key
technical partners have been selected.

Technical team organization

Depending on the national context and type of process, the structure and capacity of the technical
team may vary.

? Small technical team. This model uses a team of 3–5 people including 2–3 researchers, one of them
being responsible for coordinating inputs into the entire report. Researchers are in charge of data

collection, organization, analysis and report writing, as well as organizing and leading workshops
and consultations. The team also includes 1–2 research assistant(s) to provide support on data
collection and processing, and preparing tables and graphs.

? Extended technical team. In this model, the small technical team would add subject experts for
specific tasks (e.g., state of a particular component of the environment, scenarios). Experts have
specialized knowledge and direct access to primary data. In this case, it is necessary to establish
terms of reference for each specialist (Box 8). Terms of reference should include:
* Role in joint activities (presentations of findings in workshops);

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