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Module Course Materials
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1 Introduction and Learning Objectives
9-12 December, 2013 This module will focus on methods and strategies to position and deliver a national

Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) so that it can have real impact on
environmental policy and practice at national and local levels.

At the end of this module, you should have enhanced your ability to:
1. Articulate reasons for doing an Integrated Environmental Assessment, including but

also beyond mandated requirements.

2. Understand the political context of what you are doing and how are changes made
in policy and practice in your country.
3. Move beyond awareness of the importance of impact and communications, to

develop real strategies and communication tactics to achieve impact. Explore how
far you can go with achieving impact through your assessment.

4. Increase recognition of who you want to reach beyond your immediate departments,
and how that will affect how you undertake your work and what you will do with
your outputs.

5. Recognize that impact requires more than the production of a report at the end of
the assessment; that strategic positioning of your work and planned communications
interventions are essential components of your work that should be undertaken in
parallel with all stages of the assessment.

Changes desired in participants:
? They consider themselves as effective contributors who are capable of having an
impact on decision making;

? They see communications as an essential component of their reports that should be
undertaken in parallel with all stages of the assessment.

6 Developing an Impact Strategy for your IEA