Building the Capacity of Local EIA Consultants

On 12 August 2016, Vermont Law School (VLS) and MCRB with the support from Heinrich-Böll Stiftung co-organised a training session for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) consultants in Yangon.

The training was intended to ensure that Myanmar EIA consultants understood how to implement the EIA Procedures, in particular requirements concerning consultation, participation, disclosure and risk mitigation and management; and to build greater understanding of the professional role of EIA consultants and discuss how the quality of EIA in Myanmar can be improved.

Just over half of the approximately 60 participants were local consultants conducting EIAs.

The workshop was opened by U Hla Maung Thein, Acting Director General of the Environmental Conservation Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) who told participants:

"We have had over 100 reports, and some of them are good, but many are below average or very poor. I want to encourage all workshop participants to strengthen their capacity to conduct EIAs and to digest the detail of the EIA Procedure including non-technical requirements regarding content, format, presentation of reports, and the need for legal commitments by the project proponent and the consultant, as well as improving technical content."

U Hla Maung Thein added:

"Please pass the message to your clients that public participation is critical, and as important, even more so, than the environmental aspects of the EIA."

International environmental consultants, legal experts and MCRB’s Extractives Programme Manager Aung Kyaw Soe presented on the business ethics of EIA consultant profession, EIA consultant registration scheme in Myanmar, Risk Assessment in EIA/IEE, Public Participation in the EIA Procedure.

Workshop Agenda

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A one day follow up to the workshop is planned for early October. It will focus on Consultant Due Diligence, Public Consultations, Mitigation Hierarchy and Environmental Management Plans.

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• အရပ္ဖက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအတြက္ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ဥပေဒဆိုင္ရာ စည္းရံုးလွူံေဆာ္မႈ စြမ္းေဆာင္ရည္ျမွင့္တင္သည့္ သင္တန္းေပးျခင္း
• Investors Need to Identify their Impacts on Myanmar’s Biodiversity and Ecosystems Early On, to Avoid Cost and Conflict Later
• ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ အေရွ႕ပိုင္းႏွင့္ ေတာင္ပုိင္းရွိ အရပ္ဖက္အဖဲြ႕အစည္းမ်ားအား ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ထိခိုက္မႈ ဆန္းစစ္ျခင္းႏွင့္ တာဝန္ယူမႈရွိေသာ စီးပြားေရး လုပ္ငန္းဆိုင္ရာမ်ားကုိ သိရွိနားလည္ႏုိင္ေစရန္ အသိပညာေပးျခင္း
• Working with Community Groups in Shan State on Responsible Business and EIA
• ပလပ္စတစ္ညစ္ညမ္းမႈကို အေကာင္းဆံုးတိုက္ဖ်က္နိုင္ရန္ သန္႔ျမန္မာ တြင္ MCRB ပါဝင္မည္

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