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Case 6: Fast track environmental assessment tool in Aceh

• Case 6: Fast track environmental assessment tool in Aceh

• The Indonesian Environment Ministry agreed to the fast-track assessment method.
• The fast-track method cut the assessment time in half. When all the formalities had been dealt with, SLGSR workers and the environmental authority organized a public consultation with the nearby village community with nearly 300 people attending, to ensure public agreement before developing the waste site.

• It took two years from the day the decision was made to develop a fast-track environmental impact assessment. By then, reconstruction work in Aceh had already progressed so far that the new method was only of use for some of the projects. Identifying or developing such a tool prior to a disaster, can expedite environmental assessments; speeding up recovery efforts while protecting important ecosystems