Transcript UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Facitliy
UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Facility The Poverty-Environment Facility: How Can We Help?
4 th Annual UNDP-UNEP PEI Meeting 13-14 May, 2008 Nairobi Kenya
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Role of the Facility
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Resource Mobilisation and Donor Reporting/Liaison Coordinating Joint Global and Regional PEI Programmes Knowledge Management Technical Support Information Exchange
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Knowledge Management
• • • Guidance Note (English, French, Spanish) Handbook on Environmental Mainstreaming – in preparation Web site: access to wide range of guidance materials
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Guidance Note
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Programmatic Approach
Finding the Entry Point and Making the Case Integrating Environment into National Development Processes Meeting the Implementation Challenge
Environmental mainstreaming is targeted at government processes for planning, budgeting, sector implementation, and local level implementation Preparatory phase (6-9 months) Finding the entry points and making the case Phase 1 (18-24 months) Integrating environment into national development processes Phase 2 (18-24 months) Meeting the implementation challenge Preliminary assessments Institutional and policy context
• Institutional and governance context • National, sector and local policy processes • Key policy making process steps and entry points • Donor coordination mechanisms • Stakeholders and “champions”
Poverty-environment linkages
• Environmental resources • Poverty-environment linkages and trends • Review of sustainable development policies and strategies •Evidence of contribution of environment to economic development – poverty reduction, livelihoods, health, vulnerability
Raising awareness and building partnerships
• Disseminate the results of the assessments • Consult with various stakeholders • Organize exchange programmes • Build consensus, commitment and partnerships • Develop media programmes
Assessing institutional and capacity needs Outputs
• Improved understanding of processes and linkages • Improved consensus, ownership and collaboration • Working mechanisms and institutional arrangements for country programme agreed on • Agreement on project document for Phase 1
Developing country-specific evidence
• Perform ecosystem assessment and economic analysis • Gather evidence, identify priorities and develop arguments to influence policy processes
Influencing policy processes National (PRSP/MDG), sector and local processes
• Establish working mechanisms to fit processes • Perform integrated policy assessments on inclusion of environment sustainability in policies (e.g. SEA) • Identify systemic and sectoral priorities • Set targets within PRSP/MDG framework • Integrate environment into relevant sector and local strategy processes • Maintain deep engagement with various stakeholders throughout the process
Developing and costing policy interventions and programmes
• Develop and budget for systemic/sector interventions and programmes • Develop policy reforms including legislation, fiscal measures and market-based instruments
Strengthening institutions and capacities
• Tactical capacity building focused on policy processes
Outputs
• Improved understanding of environment contribution • Improved representation of environment actors and integration of poverty-environment in policy processes • Policy interventions and programmes developed • Agreement on project document for Phase 2
Integrating poverty-environment in the monitoring system
• Develop poverty-environment indicators • Strengthen data collection and management • Collaborate with statistics office and other bodies to integrate indicators with existing monitoring systems
Financing and budgeting for poverty environment
• Engage in budgeting process • Quantify the contribution of natural resources and environment to public finances • Develop poverty-environment investment strategy and financing options – including domestic financial base for environmental institutions
Supporting the implementation of interventions and programmes
• Collaborate with sectoral and local bodies and other stakeholders to strengthen implementation
Strengthening institutions and capacities
• Embed poverty-environment in government processes, procedures and systems (e.g. incentives) • Build capacities including for budgeting and finance for poverty- environment • Prepare longer-term capacity building strategy
Outputs
• Strengthened monitoring, data collection and management for poverty-environment • Improved domestic and donor resource mobilization • Investments to address poverty-environment • Implementation of policy interventions and programmes • Institutions and capacity developed
Stakeholder engagement and in-country donor coordination
• Governmental actors: environment agencies, finance and planning bodies, sector and local agencies, statistics office, and parliament ; Non-governmental actors: academia, private sector, civil society, media, and general public ; Donor actors: bilateral and multilateral in-country donors
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Handbook (in preparation)
Objective: The objective is to provide practical
guidance on mainstreaming environment into national development planning based on experience and lessons learned at country level, in particular through the Poverty Environment Initiative, and selected experiences from development partners and members of the Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP).
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Handbook (in preparation)
•Based upon Guidance Note structure: expanded to provide more “how to” information and access to available technical guidance •Final product will be a core resource that we will distribute to practitioners. A set of Annexes will follow focusing on: – Analytic tools – Key Environmental issues – Priority development sectors •Final draft will be distributed for comment in coming months
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Knowledge Management on the PEI Web Site http://www.unpei.org
Knowledge management
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(accessed from the regional links on the left Many documents are available in French Plan to produce Spanish translations
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Other features of the PEI Web Site
•Regional pages •Country Fact Sheets •Meetings and events •Regularly updated news •Related Links •Any suggestions welcome
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Technical Support
•Access to UNEP and UNDP technical expertise •External partnerships eg LEAD International, IIED, IUCN, WRI •Management and Procurement •Options for Delivery •Sharing Experience •Lesson Learning and Monitoring Achievement
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Technical Support – Current Focus
•Integrated Ecosystem Assessment •Economic Analysis •Policy Integration •SEA •P-E Indicators •Budget Processes •Capacity Building
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Information exchange
• PEI NET:
A Community of Practice
for poverty environment mainstreaming practitioners • About
130 members
teams, UNDP, UNEP) on the network (PEI country
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PEI NET
• Source of information about UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Facility
activities, events, meetings, etc.
• Forum for
sharing experience between countries
, especially best practices • Access to a
network of over 130 experienced poverty-environment professionals
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