New category for EAPAN Membership

The Executive Committee of EAPAN met on 5^th October 2012 to review membership applications to the Association. The committee looked at each applicant’s academic qualifications and level of experience against the criteria set for the different categories of membership. We realised that a new membership category was needed for professionals working as Environmental Officers in large companies, parastatals and government, where their main focus of work is on preparing ToRs for EAs and EMPs, working with EA consultants, doing in-house reviews of EA and EMP reports, updating EMPs, carrying out inspections and monitoring compliance, providing training to technical and other staff in their organisation, etc. These professional Environmental Officers are a critical part of the overall EA process, but they are not actually doing the EA research and compiling the EA reports. The Executive Committee therefore resolved to create a new category of EAPAN membership called “Environmental Manager”. For more details see the “Category” section of the website.