Emerging Lessons on Environmental Assessment April 18, 2017 Moderator: OTAVIANO CANUTO, Executive Director, Chairman, Committee of Development Effectiveness, World Bank ZEINAB ELBAKRI, Member, Inspection Panel, World Bank JULIA BUCKNALL, Director, Environment and Natural Resources, World Bank RICHARD FUGGLE, Emeritus Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Cape Town MEDHA PATKAR, Founder, Narmada Bachao Andolan and National Alliance of People’s Movements, India Accountability and transparency are critical to upholding the highest standards of international development. The Inspection Panel, the World Bank’s Independent Accountability Mechanism, has embarked on a series of reports intended to identify lessons that have emerged from its caseload since the mid-1990s with the goal of building institutional knowledge, enhancing accountability and contributing to more effective development. The objective of this event is to identify lessons that can be learned from Panel cases involving environmental assessment issues and what those lessons mean as the Bank implements its new Environmental and Social Framework.