Project - Compendium of National EIA Regulators and Regulations

Project Details: Tel: 403-451-0097

Application closing date: 23 February
Section, committee, etc.: Publications Committee
Estimated time required to comoplete the project: 60-80 hours in total. This project may be split among more than one applicant, depending on workload.

Purpose/Background:
Currently, there is no single source that lists, for each country, the name of the regulatory agency and where relevant regulations can be found.  This project involves creating such a guide.  It is anticipated that this guide will be useful to IAIA’s membership and will help create value for our organization.

Description of tasks:
The member and supervisor will work together to:

• decide on what country-level information will be useful to collect (e.g., the name of the national-level agency that is in charge of EIA legislation, contact info and a link to the agency’s website, and a link to the EIA regulations themselves);
• develop a framework for housing data collected (e.g., Excel spreadsheet); and
• identify information sources.

The member will then undertake research to collect the data and populate the compendium.

Finally, we will work on formatting the compendium attractively to create a useful final product for members.

Skills required by applicant:

• High skill level with Microsoft Word and Excel
• Reliable access to a computer and the internet
• High degree of skill in searching for information online
• Strong attention to detail
• Familiarity with languages other than English would be an asset
• Experience of having used/reviewed EIA regulations in at least one country would be helpful.

Hard deadlines: Would like to get this completed before March 31.