15 years the NCEA has also supported the strengthening of environmental assessment systems, working together with government, EA associations and CSOs. Our role in the SRJS programme entails working closely with international NGOs and their CSO partners, which is new for us. Since our impartial and independent position is key in this partnership, we carefully select the activities to suit our role and at the same time to be an added value for the target groups. In practice this means that the NCEA may: • • • facilitate workshops and training on environmental assessment, preferably for multi-stakeholder groups coach ESIA / SEA processes requested by the competent authority support the strengthening of environmental assessment system functions, such as the regulatory framework, at the request of the competent authority on condition that we: • always inform or engage relevant government organisations • do not facilitate activities with individual actors 41
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