§ Mr. TruswellTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what environmental appraisals of policy her Department has(a) completed, (b) started and (c) planned. [79620]
§ Clare ShortThe Department for International Development (DFID) policies for assistance to developing countries are set out in a number of public policy documents. These include: Country Strategy Papers (CSP's), which set out how DFID intends to achieve UK development objectives in the country concerned; Institutional Strategy Papers (ISPs), which detail how DFID will work with institutions such as the EU and UN, and sectoral strategy papers, including the DFID Policy Statement on the Environment, which was published in December 1998.
These policy documents are not subject to discrete environmental appraisals. They are developed by multidisciplinary teams, including environment advisers, and take account of the positive and negative environmental impacts of the policies concerned, making use of a range of technical assessments of environmental conditions in developing countries. Eighteen CSPs and four ISPs were produced in 1998–99.