United Nations Poverty-Environment Initiative
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Introduction to Poverty-Environment Including PEI & PEP Publications

Environmental mainstreaming is defined as integrating poverty-environment linkages into national development planning processes and their products, such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and growth strategies. It involves establishing the links between poverty and environment– including climate change – and identifying the policies and programmes to bring about better pro-poor environmental management. It is targeted at influencing national plans, budget processes, sector strategies and local level implementation– reflecting the need to integrate the valuable contribution of environmental management to improved livelihoods, increased economic security and income opportunities for the poor.

The overall aim is to establish enduring institutional processes within government from national to local levels and the wider stakeholder community to ensure environmental mainstreaming focused on the government bodies responsible for poverty reduction and growth policies, as well as strengthening the role of environmental agencies, and non-governmental actors.

A number of publications, reviews and introductory documents can be used as reference for environmental mainstreaming. 
Poverty-Environment Initiative publications
PEI Annual Progress Report 2008: "Scaling up the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative", July 2009: [English]
Mainstreaming Poverty-Environment Linkages into Development Planning: a Handbook for Practitioners: 2009 [English][Français]
Making the economic case: A primer on the economic arguments for mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning, 2009: [High resolution] [Low resolution] [Français]
Guidance Note on Mainstreaming Environment into National Development Planning, PEF, 2007:[English: High resolution, Low resolution] [Français] [Español]


Exploring the Links: Human Well-Being, Poverty and Ecosystem Services
[English], [Français], [Português]

Attacking Poverty While Improving the Environment: Towards Win-Win Policy Options
[English], [Français], [Español]
Attacking Poverty While Improving the Environment: Practical Recommendations
[English], [Français], [Español]
Country success stories
Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP) Publications
Poverty, Health & Environment
Linking Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management: Policy Challenges and Opportunities
[English], [Français], [Español]
PEP "Environment for MDGs" Papers:
- Sustaining the Environment to Fight Poverty and Achieve the MDGs
- Assessing Environment's Contribution in Poverty Reduction
- Investing in Environmental Wealth for Poverty Reduction
- Investing in Enviornmental Wealth for Poverty Reduction: Annotated Bibliography
Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation, African DB, Asian DB, DFID, EC, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development - Germany, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Development Cooperation - The Netherlands, OECD, UNDP, UNEP, World Bank, 2003
More Publications

The Economic Case for Investing in Environment - A Review of Policies, Practice and Impacts of relevance to Norwegian Partner Countries, NORAD, 2007

Environment and Poverty Reduction, Key Sheet 1, Irish Aid, 2005
Analyzing the Political Economy of Poverty and Ecological Disruption, , David Reed, WWF, 2004
Status and Evolution of Environmental Priorities in the Poverty Reduction Strategies: An Assessment of Fifty Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, Jan Bojö, Rama Chandra Reddy, Paper No. 93, World Bank, 2003
Where is the Wealth of Nations: Measuring Capital for the 21st Century. World Bank, 2006

Investing in Environmental Wealth for Poverty Reduction, PEP, 2005

Roots of resilience
[Quick guide], [Full report]



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