The ISEA-North started in the latter part of 2009 was completed in 2012 while the final report was released in 2014. The maps, data and recommendations were made available to agencies from the inception as an when the materials were ready, to help the reconstruction process in the Northern Province.
Five years after the implementation of the ISEA-North in Sri Lanka, UN Environment is implementing a new project with the support of IUCN Sri Lanka to learn from the ISEA process in the country, where it originated.
The aim is to share the ISEA experience within Sri Lanka so that the full use of ISEA-North could be realized. At the same time the project is planning to strengthen national capacities to implement ISEAs in two other countries: Cote d’Ivoire and Nepal.
Funded through the UN Development Account as a two-year south-south cooperation, this initiative, “Enabling sustainable and resilient development planning in post-crisis countries by mainstreaming environment and risk reduction into development planning (2015- 2017)”, was developed with the objective to share best practices and challenges faced when applying ISEAs among the three countries and in two regions, Africa and Asia.
This report summarises the material collected by IUCN Sri Lanka on the ISEA experience in Sri Lanka in the form of a case study. Initial findings were shared and validated at national and district levels. The material presented needs to be referenced along with the Final ISEA-North Report (https://goo.gl/kJRV5N) and the “Map Compendium “ that comprises of a full set of maps related to the ISEA-North process (https://goo.gl/YcwFbq).
