Narrative Description of Project
Four workshops were designed and administered to:
1- Employees of the Ministry of Environment, CDR, and line ministries
2- Environmental NGO’s
3- Industries and consulting firms
4- Staff of World Bank funded projects engaged in environmental monitoring
Thirty awareness conferences were designed and administered all over Lebanon, beneficiaries include:
1- Municipalities and local authorities (18)
2- Engineers and contractors
3- Industrialists
4- Business community
5- Lawyers
6- Insurance companies
7- Media (papers, broadcasting, TV)
8- Bankers
9- Universities (3)
10- Donors
11- Decision-makers.
This training and public awareness campaign is done in preparation for requiring an EIA for each new project.
Depending on the audience, the presentations include various levels of detail covering:
– status of environment in Lebanon
– what is an EIA?
– benefits of an EIA
– procedures involved: screening, scoping, technical studies, public participation, reporting, monitoring, etc.
– proposed steps in conducting an EIA
– cost of conducting an EIA
– skills required to conduct an EIA
– risk aversion.
