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UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Initiative
The UNDP-UNEP
Poverty-Environment Initiative
UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Initiative
What We Do
Support governments to:
 Integrate environmental sustainability into national,
development plans, such as the PRPSs, in support of
poverty alleviation and economic growth
Build national capacity to:
 Identify contribution of environment to poverty
reduction and pro-poor growth
 Effectively integrate environmental management into
national development processes, including budgeting
and investment plans
UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Initiative
History
UNDP Poverty-Environment Initiative
Grew out of WSSD
Supported by DFID and EC
UNEP Poverty-Environment Project
Supported by Norway, Belgium and
Sweden
Joint UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Initiative, formed 2007
Donors collectively agreed to support significant scale-up of PEI
UNDP-UNEP Poverty Environment Facility, formed 2007
Supporting PEI scale-up, knowledge management, technical advisory services
• Joint UNDP-UNEP programming, budgeting and staff recruitment
• Leading example of UN interagency co-operation
UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Initiative
• MoU signed between UNDP and UNEP in 2005 to enhance collaboration
in areas of common interest (3 areas: climate change, poverty and
environment initiatives and other environmental endeavors).
• PEI brings together the environmental capacity and networks of UNEP with the UNDP’s expertise and capacity to support country-led processes
via its CO presence.
• Partnerships with Ministries of Environment, Ministries of Planning and
Development and Ministries of Finance.
•There are significant opportunities to link PEI with the MDG Achievement
Fund, to help countries accelerate progress towards the MDGs.
•PEI is working within the wider context of One UN pilots and UNDAF
processes
UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Initiative
PEI: Regions and Countries
Africa
 UNDP-UNEP regional PEI team in Nairobi
 10 country programmes: Burkina Faso,
Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique,
Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Botswana
Asia
 UNDP-UNEP Regional PEI team in
Bangkok
 Country programmes established in Vietnam
and Bhutan
 Target to launch PEI activities in : Bangladesh,
Laos, Cambodia, Nepal and East-Timor
UNDP-UNEP Poverty- Environment Initiative
PEI: Regions and Countries
Latin America
Joint UNDP-UNEP team based in
Panama
Regional PEI programme launched
in May 2008.
Europe/CIS
Joint UNDP-UNEP team based in
Geneva/Bratislava
Regional PEI programme
launched in June 2008.
Experience in country PEI programmes has led to key
lessons learned, created model for mainstreaming
environment into development processes