VAN: Strengthening Implementation Capacity for EIA — Action Plan

The background of the TA was the need for Vanuatu to successfully apply CSS for a series of forthcoming infrastructure projects. The current environmental safeguards system was established in recent years and the director of DEPC is keen to review the performance of environmental safeguards with a view to improving them not only for the larger infrastructure projects but all activities subject to environmental assessment in Vanuatu. Therefore the goal of the TA was the development of environmental CSS capacity to assist the implementation of infrastructure and other projects so they can progress in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. The outcome of the TA is an improved environment CSS framework and increased capacity to implement environmental and social safeguards in infrastructure and other types of development.