Goals, Objectives, Strategies and Results — Continued

Goal 2: Organizational Excellence.

This goal is achieved by ensuring that the Environmental Assessment Office supports organizational development to optimize its ability to provide efficient and effective delivery of environmental assessment. It also entails ensuring effective and efficient communication with all parties involved in environmental assessment.

Objective 1:

Support organizational development to optimize ability to deliver environmental assessment.

This objective focuses on creating a healthy, performance-focused environment with proactive leadership and continuous improvement.

Strategies:

1. Evaluation of existing Environmental Assessment Office policies to identify gaps and redundancies.

2. Update the Human Resource Management Plan that includes strategies for staff training, development, recognition and succession.

3. Managers to review Employee Performance and Development Plans annually with each of their staff members.

4. Provide staff with information and access to development, training and learning opportunities.

5. Provide Environmental Assessment Office employees with training (workshops) and tools (tool kit, information, agreement templates) to effectively carry out the government's legal obligations to First Nations and to provide effective advice to proponents on building and maintaining positive relationships with First Nations.

Objective 2:

Communicate effectively with all stakeholders.

The British Columbia Environmental Assessment Act establishes an electronic Project Information Centre to facilitate access to general information about the environmental assessment process, as well as specific information on individual project assessments. The principal means of accessing the Project Information Centre is through the Environmental Assessment Office website. The Public Consultation Policy Regulation identifies documentation related to each project environmental assessment that is normally made available to the public through the website. Information on the Project Information Centre is updated on an ongoing basis. The Environmental Assessment Office is committed to improving the access and ease of use of the website since this is the primary mechanism for access to information.