Policy

Policy and decision-making tools and approaches

CEP has extensive expertise and experience in the use of impact assessment and evaluation tools, techniques and approaches, including:

What we do > Policy

• Environmental impact assessment (EIA)
• Strategic environmental assessment (SEA)
• Sustainability appraisal (SA)
• Social impact assessment (SIA)
• Health impact assessment (HIA)
• Appropriate assessment / habitat regulations assessment
• Integrated assessment
• Regulatory impact assessment
• Ex-post evaluation.

Our assessment and evaluation work includes:

• developing procedures and guidance
• undertaking research
• delivering training and building institutional capacity
• undertaking quality and peer reviews
• providing expert advice as part of public inquiries and judicial reviews
• providing a co-ordination role and technical inputs.

Increasingly, our work in undertaking strategic assessments and futures thinking, including the use of scenarios, supports the tools and techniques for strategy-making more generally.

Using assessment and evaluation to enhance understanding of the effects and implications of all levels of decision

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