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Knowledge Management

The promotion of knowledge management and networking activities is one of the main roles of the Poverty-Environment Facility.

Knowledge materials

The Facility develops and collects knowledge materials including reviews, methodologies, tools, and examples from countries. It documents lessons learned and good-practices. These knowledge materials are provided to support those engaged in country-level environmental mainstreaming. This process is carried out in partnership with UNDP and UNEP thematic/technical units, and with external partners including other members of the Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP).

Based on experience to date, successful environmental mainstreaming requires a programmatic approach— adapted to national circumstances. This framework has three phases and there are typically a cluster of tasks needed for each phase— for which a range of knowledge materials are available.  
To access knowledge materials, please click on the relevant subject or section of the diagramme below.
Environmental mainstreaming is targeted at government processes for planning,
budgeting, sector implementation, and local level implementation
  Preparatory Phase:
Finding the entry points
and making the case		  
Phase 1:
Integrating environment
into national development processes
  
Phase 2:
Meeting the
implementation challenge
  
Preliminary assessments
Understanding the
governmental, political and
institutional context		   Developing country-specific
evidence
Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA)
Economic analysis		   Integrating Poverty-environment
in the monitoring system
Indicators and data collection
 
Influencing policy processes
National (PRSP/MDG),
sector and sub-natonal levels 		Budgeting and Financing for
poverty-environment
Budget processes and finance options
Preliminary assessments
Understanding the poverty-environment
linkages
  Raising awareness and
building partnerships
National consensus and commitment 		  Developing and costing policy
measures
  
Supporting policy measures
National, sectoral and sub-national levels
  
  Strengthening institutions and capacities
Needs assessment
Working mechanisms 		  Strengthening institutions and capacities
Learning by doing 		  Strengthening Institutions and capacities
Mainstreaming as usual practice
 

Communities of practice

In the regions where the Poverty-Environment Initiative works, the Facility helps to develop regional communities of practice on environmental mainstreaming in the context of supporting country strategies to achieve the MDGs. The regional communities of practice have an operational orientation, with a focus on South-South dialogue and experience exchange, and provide a means for supporting the documentation and sharing of lessons, good practices and case studies. This includes dissemination of policy research, practical experiences and other knowledge resources.

In addition, a global e-network provides a platform for exchange, facilitates the synthesis and dissemination of lessons from country experiences, and expands access to knowledge resources on poverty-environment and environmental mainstreaming issues.

Information and knowledge products related to country programmes are also available on the PEI country pages:
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