Around the World in 80+ min with HIA in the Energy Sector - Session II, Presentation 3

Capacity Building in Environment and Health

Common areas of concern in EH in participating countries:

• Lack of intersectional collaboration
• Lack of implementation and evaluation of risk assessment methodologies
• Lack of knowledge on how to do HIA and health in EAs
• Water quality, ESP in rural areas
• Air quality, ESP in urban areas
• Pollution prevention strategies and hazardous waste sites
• Energy policy

 

Capacity needs in EH

• How to use existing data for EH interpretation
• ...

 

Health in IA in participating countries:

• Have to abide by EU EIA and SEA Directives
• Some countries HIA is obligatory - Lithuania, Slovakia - but knowledge on EIA/SEA limited

Undertook an international HIA conference

• 70 participants from 8 countries
• 1 week in Riga
• Intermediate/Senior people were the target but got a mix of experienced and inexperienced professional but a good mix of health and environment professionals.
• Nominated by Ministries of Health and Environment.
• Key lectures on hot topics/ state of the art
• Country case studies
• Parallel workshops - Health in EIA, SEA and Quantitative Methods
• Training of trainers

 

Feedback from participants - most very happy, some not happy, would like to see more training opportunities and more with environmental ministry colleagues.

 

Conclusions:

• Need both Ministry of Environment and Health participants, equal numbers ideally
• Training included real case studies
• Training of trainers
• Publishing of these training materials
• Follow up workshop in Estonia and Slovenia