Within the framework of the European Union-funded EU4Environment programme, UNECE is assisting the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, including Ukraine, in comprehensive capacity-building and institutional building on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and in finalizing legal reforms in this area. 

Meeting objectives, expected outputs and outcomes

• Familiarizing the target audience with a step-by-step procedure for carrying out the SEA of state planning documents;
• Defining the main distinctive features of the SEA for urban planning documentation;
• Explicating responsibilities in SEA;
• Presenting the Unified Register of SEA.

Overall, as part of the series of the SEA training workshops with a focus on Ukraine’s urban planning, the second workshop  will further contribute to the strengthening of the institutional capacity for SEA at regional and local levels and support relevant departments/units of regional and local authorities in using the SEA more effectively for greening Ukraine’s post-war urban reconstruction efforts. The event will include interactions with the target audience in the form of guided discussions, Q&A, interactive Mentimeter-based polls/surveys etc.

Participants

Representatives of relevant departments (environmental protection, healthcare, urban planning and architecture) in Ukraine’s regional administrations and Kyiv city state administration, as well as representatives of local self-government bodies across the country.