Greater Mekong Subregion Environment Operations Center

Upcoming Events

1st December 2008: 3rd WGE Semi Annual Meeting (WGE SAM-3), Vientiane, Lao PDR.

Lao PDR National Environment Performance Assessment Report
Asian Development Bank (ADB) GMS program webpage

Strategic Environmental Assessment
of the Hydropower Master Plan
in the Context of the Power Development Plan VI

Inception and Scoping Workshop 20th June 2007, Hanoi, Viet Nam

Hosted by the Ministry of Industry

Workshop Agenda

Wednesday 20th June 2007, 9:00 - 16:30

Time Item/Theme Speaker
9:00 - 9:15 Introduction Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh, MOI
9:15 - 9:30 Purpose of the SEA [PDF: 681KB | 10 pages] Pavit Ramchandran, GMS Core Environmental Programme
9:30 - 10:00 Overview of the study & proposed approach to SEA [PDF: 1.35MB | 40 pages] Mans Nilsson, SEI
10:00 - 10:30 SEA development in Viet Nam [PDF: 476KB | 13 pages] Mr. Tran Viet Hoa, MOI
10:30 - 11:00 Discussion on SEA concepts and methods
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee
11:15 - 11:45 Viet Nam's Hydropower Development Plan [PDF: 3.16MB | 28 pages] Mr. Tran Viet Hoa, MOI
11:45 - 12:30 Discussion on the policy, planning and regulatory framework
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:15 Hydropower development considerations [PDF: 89KB | 1 page] Goran Lifwenborg, Sweco
14:15 - 14:30 Hydropower and sustainable development in Viet Nam [PDF: 41KB | 1 page] John Soussan, SEI
14:30 - 14:45 Social aspects of hydropower development [PDF: 18KB | 1 page] Eva Lindskog, SEI
14:45 - 15:30 Roundtable discussion to elicit the views of the participating agencies on the role and potential of SEA in Viet Nam
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee
15:45 - 16:45 Discussion on next steps in the SEA process
16:45 - 17:00 Closing Mr Tran Viet Hoa, MOI