Month of the year	Planned Activity	Expected results	Status of implementation
2003
March	Contract settelement, communication with IPF Office, possible mentors; IPF training seminar in Budapest	Contract signed, preliminary approval from mentors received; participation in the IPF training	Activities completed
April	Setting up project outline, development of methodology and questionnaire; developing list of respondents and initial contacts with them; dissemination of the first set of questionnaires via e-mail; literature reviews, data collection via internet	Project outline developed, three types of questionnaires (dependant on the type of stakeholder group) developed; first set of questionnaires (25 copies) disseminated	Activities completed
May	Development and updating of the IPF homepage; dispatch of the  second set of questionnaires (mostly to Latvia and Lithuania); development of database on responses received; interviews with selected respondents to clarify their responses	Minimum requirements for IPF homepage met; second set of questionnaires dispatched; 8 interviews with representatives of SEA stakeholder groups conducted	Activities completed
June	IPF training seminar in Budapest; analysis of the responses received	Participation in the IPF training seminar; response data base developed and filled in; preliminary results gained; IPF homepage updated	Activities completed
July	Interim reports (project report and financial report) drafted and submited to mentors for review	1st draft of policy paper submitted to Prof Aleg Cherp for review	1st draft of policy paper submitted to Prof Aleg Cherp for review; comments and recommendations for improvement received on 22 July 2003
August	Interim reports submitted to IPF Office; updating of IPF homepage with reports; trips to Riga and Vilnius to interview representatives of stakeholder groups	Reports prepared and submitted; travel arrangements completed	2nd draft of policy paper submitted to prof Cherp and Mr Panu Kontio for review on 22 August; financial report, draft policy paper and menor critique forms submitted to IPF Office; travel arrangements to Riga and Vilnius made; communication with people to be interviewed via e-mail made, dates and time of meetings agreed; travel to Riga 28-30 August 2003 completed; travelt to Vilnius schedulled 10-12 September 2003
September	Data analysis and development of draft policy paper; updating of IPF homepage with draft policy paper	Trip to Riga	Trip to Riga to the Latvian Ministry of the Environment, intervies with national authorities on SEA; mid-term financial report drafting
October	IPF training seminar in Budapest; work on draft policy paper	IPF seminar held;  first draft of research and policy papers	Trip to Vilnius to the Lithuanian Ministry of the Environment, intervies with national authorities on SEA; invitation by menot Mr Panu Kontio to deliver a lecture on the experience of implementation of SEA in Estonia on 31 Oct 2003 in Helsinki; IPF seminar was cancelled
November	Data analysis and development of draft policy paper continued	Draft policy paper	Literature review and update; amendments to the research paper
December	Communication with mentors on the draft policy paper; meeting with civil cervants at the Estonian Ministry of Environment to discuss the preliminary results of my work	Meeting at Estonian Ministry of the Environment to discuss the paper	Communication with mentor Dr Aleg Cherp on the progress of the work, preparaion for the submission of a paper to IAPA
2004
January	Finalising of the policy paper	Policy paper finalised	Policy paper introduced to the Estonian Ministry of the Environment
February	Finalising the research and policy paper, communication with mentors	Review of the paper by mentors	Communication with mentor Dr Aleg Cherp on the progress of the work, reponses to the reviewers of the paper to IAPA
March	Finalising of the policy paper; printing and communication with IPF Office for completion of the fellowship	Final reports submitted to OSI	Final reporting; OSI seminar 21-28 March 2004 in Budapest